Ms Michelle Sced

I am the Research Development Coordinator in the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences. I work in the EAS Research Office with the Deans of Research and Research Education. I joined UniSA in September 2006.

From mid-2003 to mid-2006, I worked as a Research Officer, and later Acting Senior Research Officer, at the Australasian Centre for Policing Research. Here I conducted and supervised qualitative and quantitative research projects aimed at enhancing the operational and organisational effectiveness of Australasian police organisations. Some of the projects included: public satisfaction with police, the pre-employment use of psychological tests to predict police corruption, and burnout and engagement in probationary police officers.

Prior to this, I worked as a brief intervention therapist at the Victim Support Service. Here I was responsible for providing focused, short-term individual and group-based counselling to persons traumatised by crime.

I am currently studying a Master of Business Administration at the University of Adelaide.

Registered Psychologist, South Australian Psychological Board

Full Member, Australian Psychological Society

Master of Psychology (Forensic), University of South Australia

Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours, First Class), University of Adelaide

Sced, M. & Baur, J. (2007). Burnout and engagement in police recruits: A typology, ACPR Outcomes (No. 2). Payneham, South Australia: Australasian Centre for Policing Research.

Sced, M., Baur, J., & Tuckey, M. (2007). Burnout and engagement in probationary police officers: A methodology, ACPR Research in Practice Series (No. 1). Payneham, South Australia: Australasian Centre for Policing Research.

Lynch, J., Nicholas, R., Beattie, J., Sced, M., & Baur, J. (2007). Police literature 2004: An Australian-focused compendium, ACPR Report Series (No. 147.2). Payneham, South Australia: Australasian Centre for Policing Research. www.acpr.gov.au

Sced, M., Nicholas, R., & Beattie, J. (2006). Police literature 2005: An Australian-focused compendium, ACPR Report Series (No. 147.1). Payneham, South Australia: Australasian Centre for Policing Research.

Baur, J. & Sced, M. (2006). Methods in police research 2005: An analysis of police-specific research journals, ACPR Outcomes (No. 1). Payneham, South Australia: Australasian Centre for Policing Research.

Sced, M. (2006). Mental illness in the community: The role of police, ACPR Issues (No. 3). Payneham, South Australia: Australasian Centre for Policing Research.

Sced, M. (2005). Emotional First Aid: Addressing Emotional Distress – A Guide for Police. Payneham, South Australia: Australasian Centre for Policing Research.

Sced, M. (2004). Screening for corruption using standard psychological tests of personality: A review of the research evidence, ACRP Critical Issues in Policing Paper (No. 11). Payneham, South Australia: Australasian Centre for Policing Research.

Sced, M. (2004). Public satisfaction with police contact – Part I: Police-initiated contacts, ACPR Current Commentary (No. 8). Payneham, South Australia: Australasian Centre for Policing Research.

Sced, M. (2004). Public satisfaction with police contact – Part II: Self-initiated contacts, ACPR Current Commentary (No. 8). Payneham, South Australia: Australasian Centre for Policing Research.