Emily Freeman

Experience

• 2012–present
  Lecturer in Psychology, The University of Newcastle
• 2019–present
  Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The University of Newcastle
• 2009–2012
  Senior Researcher, Family Action Centre
• 2008–2009
  Postdoctoral fellow, The University of Adelaide

Education

• 2009 
  The University of Newcastle, PhD - Psychology
• 2003 
  The University of Newcastle, B. Science (Psychology) (Hons I)

Publications

• 2019
  Chalmers KA, Freeman EE, 'Working Memory Power Test for Children', Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 37 105-111,
• 2019
  Goodman JB, Freeman EE, Chalmers KA, 'The relationship between early life stress and working memory in adulthood: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Memory, 27 868-880,
• 2018
  St George J, Freeman EE, 'Social-emotional learning through a drumming intervention', Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy,
• 2018
  Chalmers KA, Freeman EE, 'Does accuracy and confidence in working memory performance relate to academic achievement in NAPLAN, the Australian national curriculum assessment?', Australian Journal of Psychology, 70 388-395,
• 2018
  Chalmers KA, Freeman EE, 'A Comparison of Single and Multi-Test Working Memory Assessments in Predicting Academic Achievement in Children', Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 152 613-629,
• 2017
  St George JM, Freeman E, 'Measurement of rough-and-tumble play and its relations to child behaviour', Journal of Infant Mental Health, 38 709-725,
• 2017
  Freeman EE, Karayanidis F, Chalmers KA, 'Metacognitive monitoring of working memory performance and its relationship to academic achievement in Grade 4 children', Learning and Individual Differences, 57 58-64,
• 2015
  StGeorge J, Fletcher R, Freeman E, Paquette D, Dumont C, 'Father¿child interactions and children's risk of injury', Early Child Development and Care,
• 2013
  Fletcher R, StGeorge J, Freeman E, 'Rough and tumble play quality: Theoretical foundations for a new measure of father-child interaction', Early Child Development and Care, 183 746-759,
• 2013
  Freeman E, Ross NM, St George J, Fletcher R, 'A quantitative analysis of practitioners' knowledge of fathers and fathers' engagement in family relationship services', Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal, 24 270-277,
• 2012
  Freeman EE, Fletcher R, Collins CE, Morgan PJ, Burrows TL, Callister R, 'Preventing and treating childhood obesity: Time to target fathers', International Journal of Obesity, 36 12-15,
• 2011
  Fletcher R, Freeman EE, Matthey S, 'The impact of behavioural parent training on fathers' parenting: A meta-analysis of the triple-p positive parenting program', Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, & Practice about Men as Fathers, 9 291-312,
• 2011
  Fletcher R, Freeman EE, Garfield C, Vimpani GV, 'The effects of early paternal depression on children's development', Medical Journal of Australia, 195 685-689,
• 2010
  Heathcote AJ, Bora B, Freeman EE, 'Recollection and confidence in two-alternative forced choice episodic recognition', Journal of Memory and Language, 62 183-203,
• 2010
  Freeman EE, Heathcote AJ, Chalmers KA, Hockley W, 'Item effects in recognition memory for words', Journal of Memory and Language, 62 1-18,
• 2009
  Heathcote AJ, Freeman EE, Etherington JL, Tonkin J, Bora B, 'A dissociation between similarity effects in episodic face recognition', Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16 824-831 ,

Grants and Contracts

• 2019
  The Feasibility of Father-Child Rough-and-Tumble Play as a Behavioural Intervention Technique

  Role:

  Lead

  Funding Source:

  Faculty of Science, The University of Newcastle

• 2018
  The Impact of Father-Child Play Interactions on Child Development

  Role:

  Lead

  Funding Source:

  Keats Endowment Fund

• 2017
  Prospective study of the impact of father-child interaction on child behaviour

  Role:

  Lead

  Funding Source:

  Faculty of Science, The University of Newcastle

• 2016
  FHEAM 2016 Strategic Pilot Grant

  Role:

  Lead

  Funding Source:

  Faculty of Health and Medicine Pilot Grant University of Newcastle

• 2014
  Are short and long term memory really different systems? A context-based alternative

  Role:

  Lead

  Funding Source:

  Keats Endowment Fund

• 2012
  Are two processes one too many? A state-trace analysis of recognition memory for familiar and unfamiliar words.

  Role:

  Lead

  Funding Source:

  Keats Endowment Fund

• 2011
  Investigation of recognition memory in behavioural, electrophysiological, and functional neuroimaging domains using state trace analysis

  Role:

  Lead

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

Professional Memberships

• Member of the Psychonomic Society