Fiona Maccallum

Dr. Fiona Maccallum is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the School of Psychology, University of Queensland, with research interests in grief & loss, trauma, emotion regulation, and anxiety. Her work employs experimental and longitudinal methodologies, including experience sampling, to explore psychological processes underlying resilience and psychopathology development.

• PhD and Master of Psychology (Clinical) from UNSW
• Postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University’s Loss, Trauma and Emotion Lab

Her research spans autobiographical memory and self-identity processes in clinical disorders, focusing on mechanisms of clinical dysfunction in recalling the past and imagining the future. She also investigates grief and loss through cognitive, emotional, and behavioral lenses, such as appraisals, distress tolerance, and approach-avoidance responses, and emotion regulation mechanisms, including attachment processes and daily-life dynamics.

Recent publications highlight trends in moral injury, pandemic-related bereavement, psilocybin-assisted therapy, and mental health interventions. She has contributed to understanding the role of identity processing in trauma and feasibility of mental health promotion packages for students.

Dr. Maccallum has supervised projects on self-identity and moral injury, complex trauma, and PTSD, and secured grants including Frontline Yoga: Feasibility study of a trauma-aware yoga program and Identifying mental health effects of bereavement during the pandemic.