Mel Taylor
Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychology
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Dr Mel Taylor is an Occupational Psychologist based in the School of Psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney. Her research focusses on preparedness, response, and recovery to threats of relevance to national security. These are typically low probability, high consequence events such as pandemics, terrorism, emergency animal diseases, and disasters. Key areas of research interest are psychosocial response and recovery, uptake of biosecurity practices and health protective behaviours, and risk communication strategies.
Research Interest
Psychology
Publications
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Risk Mitigation of Emerging Zoonoses: hendra virus and non-vaccinating horse owners Manyweathers, J., Field, H., Jordan, D., Longnecker, N., Agho, K., Smith, C. & Taylor, M. 2017 (Accepted/In press) In : Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. p. 1-14 14 p.
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Expanding protection motivation theory: Investigating an application to animal owners and emergency responders in bushfire emergencies Westcott, R., Ronan, K., Bambrick, H. & Taylor, M. 26 Apr 2017 In : BMC Psychology. 5, 1, 13
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"Don't just do something … stand there!" Emergency responders' peri-incident perceptions of animal owners in bushfire Westcott, R. A. N., Ronan, K., Bambrick, H. & Taylor, M. 2017 In : Frontiers in veterinary science. 4, p. 34-1-34-10 10 p.
