National Centre For Youth Substance Use Research

Dr Laura Anderson

PhD
Adjunct Research Fellow
National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research

Researcher biography

Dr Laura Anderson is an Early Career Research Fellow at Cancer Council Queensland in Health Systems and Behavioural Research, where she uses quantitative and qualitative methods to better understand health behaviours. 
Dr Anderson was awarded her PhD by the UQ School of Psychology in August 2022. At NCYSUR, under the primary supervision of Associate Professor Matthew Gullo, her PhD research investigated the psychological factors that convey risk for unsafe sexual behaviours during adolescence, particularly impulsivity and social cognition.  For this work, Dr Anderson was awarded a Research Training Program Scholarship and a Children’s Hospital Foundation top-up scholarship.
At CCQ, her current projects include working to increase cancer screening rates and improve treatment outcomes.
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Publications

Journal Articles (13)
Theses (2)

Journal Articles

Goodwin, Belinda, Anderson, Laura E., Perry, Nicole, Zajdlewicz, Leah, Stiller, Anna, Wilson, Carlene, McIntosh, Jennifer, Austin, Glenn, Jiang, Joyce and Jenkins, Mark (2025). Consumer versus expert opinions on bowel cancer screening videos: Findings from a co-design study. Patient Education and Counseling, 130 108404, 108404. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2024.108404
Anderson, Laura E., Myers, Larry, Collins, Katelyn, Vicario, Jazmin, Viljoen, Bianca, Ireland, Michael J. and Goodwin, Belinda C. (2024). Co-designing planning interventions to facilitate participation in mail-out bowel cancer screening. BMC Public Health, 24 (1) 2418. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-19867-y
Anderson, Laura E., Collins, Katelyn E., Myers, Larry, Ireland, Michael J., Omar, Mariam, Drummond, Allanah and Goodwin, Belinda C. (2024). Decisions and prompts to screen for cervical, bowel, and breast cancer. Patient Education and Counseling, 122 108174, 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2024.108174
Gregory, Georgia, Malaweera Arachchige, Senudi, Moran, Claire, Gullo, Matthew J. and Anderson, Laura E. (2024). A pilot evaluation of a training programme on understanding and responding to sexual behaviours in children and young people. Sex Education, 24 (3), 402-415. doi: 10.1080/14681811.2023.2208523
Goodwin, Belinda, Anderson, Laura, Collins, Katelyn, Sanjida, Saira, Riba, Marcos, Singh, Gursharan K., Campbell, Kimberley M., Green, Heather, Ishaque, Sana, Kwok, Alastair, Opozda, Melissa J., Pearn, Amy, Shaw, Joanne, Sansom-Daly, Ursula M., Tsirgiotis, Joanna M., Janda, Monika and Grech, Lisa (2023). Anticipatory anxiety and participation in cancer screening: a systematic review. Psycho-Oncology, 32 (12), 1773-1786. doi: 10.1002/pon.6238
Leav, Samnang, Revill, Ali S., Anderson, Laura E., Kidd, Chloe and Gullo, Matthew J. (2023). Attitudes toward standardized assessment among individuals who use substances. Addiction Research and Theory, 31 (6), 431-440. doi: 10.1080/16066359.2023.2199205
Anderson, Laura E., Ireland, Michael J., Myers, Larry, Avenell, Claire, Connaughton, Tanaya and Goodwin, Belinda C. (2023). Psychological distress and bowel cancer screening participation. Psycho-Oncology, 32 (2), 229-236. doi: 10.1002/pon.6072
Goodwin, Belinda C., Myers, Larry, McKenna, Kirsten N., Anderson, Laura E. and Ireland, Michael J. (2022). The role of need for control and self‐reliance in gender and age differences in bowel cancer screening participation. Psycho-Oncology, 31 (11), 1988-1996. doi: 10.1002/pon.5979
Burt, Jennifer S., Leggett, Jack M. I. and Anderson, Laura E. (2022). Increasing the duration of an intervening distractor word can increase repetition blindness: Evidence for interitem competition in rapid visual sequences. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77 (1), 73-83. doi: 10.1037/cep0000286
Revill, Ali S., Anderson, Laura E., Kidd, Chloe and Gullo, Matthew J. (2022). Drug and alcohol practitioners’ attitudes toward the use of standardized assessment. Addictive Behaviors, 128 107231, 107231. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107231
Anderson, Laura E., Dingle, Genevieve A., O'Gorman, Beth and Gullo, Matthew J. (2020). Young adults’ sexual health in the digital age: perspectives of care providers. Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, 25 100534, 100534. doi: 10.1016/j.srhc.2020.100534
Anderson, Laura E., Connor, Jason P., Voisey, Joanne, Young, Ross McD. and Gullo, Matthew J. (2019). The unique role of attachment dimensions and peer drinking in adolescent alcohol use. Personality and Individual Differences, 149, 118-122. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.05.048
O'Gorman, Beth, Sheffield, Jeanie, Anderson, Laura E. and Griffiths, Scott (2019). Trivialized and overlooked: a qualitative investigation of men recruited from an Internet-based forum for short-statured individuals. Psychology of Men and Masculinities, 21 (2), 288-297. doi: 10.1037/men0000228

Theses

Anderson, Laura Elizabeth (2022). Communication, context and critique: understanding sexual behaviours in children and young people. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/47f9934
Anderson, Laura E. (2016). What predicts adolescent drinking? Investigating attachment, difficulty saying “no”, and alcohol expectancies. Honours Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland.