Gabrielle Rigney is a lecturer and Discipline Lead for Undergraduate Psychology, based at the Appleton Institute in Adelaide. Her broad research area is in paediatric sleep. Gabby completed her PhD evaluating a school-based sleep education program in pre-adolescents, at the end of 2015. She then moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to undertake a post-doctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University. During her two years at Dalhousie, Gabby worked on the development of eHealth programs for parents of children with insomnia, working with a large team of paediatric sleep specialists across Canada. She had a lead role in modifying an eHealth sleep intervention so that it was suitable for parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorders, using a transdiagnostic approach to treatment. Since commencing her role at CQUniversity, Gabby has been working on developing an eHealth intervention for youth, using microlearning principles.
PhD, University of South Australia (2015)
BPsych(Hons), University of South Australia (2010)
Dalhousie University (2016-2018)
University of South Australia (2010-2016)
I am currently accredited for supervision in the following: