Karina Rune

Dr Karina Rune joined UniSC as a full-time Lecturer in Psychology in 2018. Previously, Karina had worked at USC as a sessional tutor/lecturer and research assistant while completing her PhD. Prior to this, she completed both her bachelor and honours degree in psychology at USC .

Since 2019, Karina has been the course coordinator for the two major Introduction to Psychology A & B Courses at USC adapting a flipped classroom model to both courses. Karina is also the Blended Learning lead for the School of Social Sciences. She has a passion for the inclusion of new learning technologies, flipped classroom and student lead learning, drawing on her own experiences as mature aged student.
Karina's research focus is cognitive psychology and, in particular, the role that biased attention plays in eating disorders and chronic pain. From 2015 to 2018, Karina was the project manager of a joint project between USC, Queensland University of Technology and the Australia Defence force looking at chronic pain in Defence members and military veterans. She has also conducted research into road safety and situational awareness in ambulance drivers.

Currently, Karina has research projects with the Butterfly Foundation and BTC Australia looking at adjunct treatments for individuals with eating disorders, including brain stimulation and group therapy. She has completed a Master of Clinical Psychology and registered with APHRA as a clinical psychologist.

Karina has a master’s degree in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Edinburgh and spent several years living in, and travelling through, the Middle East before settling in Australia in 2003.