{"id":1533,"date":"2026-03-06T01:45:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:15:36","slug":"rose-doherty-2025-best-higher-degree-by-research-student-publication-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/2026\/03\/06\/rose-doherty-2025-best-higher-degree-by-research-student-publication-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Doherty – 2025 Best Higher Degree by Research Student Publication Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rose Doherty is from the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work and is one of the recipients for the 2025 Best Higher Degree by Research Student Publication Award and is supervised by Associate Professor Ryan Balzan.<\/p>\n

Rose’s\u00a0 publication was titled “Jumping to conclusions and delusional ideation: A systematic review and meta-analysis across the psychosis continuum<\/em>”<\/p>\n

We invited Rose to share insights into the PhD journey and what winning this award means.<\/p>\n

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What does your publication explore? <\/strong><\/p>\n

This paper explores the relationship between the jumping to conclusions (JTC) bias and delusional ideation. Collating data from the past 37 years of research for this meta-analysis, we aimed to better understand how biased thinking styles relate to unusual beliefs. It is important to understand this relationship as the JTC bias has been theorised to be linked to the formation and maintenance of clinical delusions, conspiratorial beliefs, and other unusual beliefs in the general population.<\/p>\n

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What is your research about?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My PhD research aims to understand how the jumping to conclusions (JTC) bias is connected to belief formation.<\/p>\n

Cognitive biases like the JTC bias are often the target of psychological interventions in the treatment of delusions and in educating about misinformation. Therefore, understanding how to accurately measure peoples thinking styles and their decision-making behvaiour can be crucial. As a part of my research, I am specifically investigating several methodological issues and aiming to improve the way JTC behaviour is measured.<\/p>\n

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What does winning this award mean to you? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I am very grateful to have received this award. This paper involved a significant effort and took a lot of time to complete so it is very rewarding to see that recognised as I continue with the rest of my thesis.<\/p>\n

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What advice would you give to current or prospective PhD students?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The main advice I have from my time doing a PhD so far is to be flexible to changes because they will happen, and to be patient because it is a very long process, but it is always good to focus on the smaller successes along the way.<\/p>\n

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How did you choose your supervisor? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I completed my honours thesis in 2020 with Ryan, working in a similar area around the JTC bias related to disordered eating beliefs in an at-risk population. For my PhD thesis I was keen to continue exploring this area of research and to work with Ryan on projects in the field of psychosis. While working on the meta-analysis as my first thesis chapter, we began collaborating with Rob and added him to my supervisory team as a lot of our research interests are closely aligned and throughout the PhD, I planned to build on some of his previous work.<\/p>\n

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