Summary

Dr Thomas is an Australian Research Council Early Career Research Fellow and Lecturer within the School of Psychology, Murdoch University. She completed a PhD (ANU, 2009) in Social Psychology and in 2012 was awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Fellowship that will allow her to devote time to research on a full-time basis for 3 years.

Thomas is a Social and Political Psychologist and her research explores the ways that people come together to resist social inequality and social injustice. Her published work explores the psychological correlates of commitment to humanitarian assistance, and the role of emotion, and personal and collective identity, in facilitating different forms of social protest. Her work has been funded by the Australian Research Council, the US Spencer Foundation and she is an active participant in the Young and Well: Co-operative Research Centre (CRC-YAW).