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Kit Double is a Senior Lecturer and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the School of Psychology, University of Sydney. He completed his PhD in psychology at the University of Sydney in 2018 and subsequently worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford University from 2018 to 2021. His research has garnered recognition, including being named Australia's top psychology researcher by an Australian newspaper in 2025. Kit directs the USYD Meta Lab, focusing on metacognition, specifically how individuals monitor and control their thoughts and emotions to optimize learning. His approaches incorporate experimental methods and individual differences paradigms to understand and improve self-monitoring processes. His work lies at the intersection of cognitive, educational, and affective psychology, employing advanced statistical techniques like multi-level modeling and meta-analytic methods. He has developed courses in Advanced Statistical Methods and taught international workshops in statistics. Kit's research interests align with the Faculty of Science Research Strengths, including Brain, Behavior, Cognition, and Cultivating Scientific Capability, and he is keen on researching topics related to Emotional Self-Awareness and Cognitive Psychology.
University of Sydney • Sydney, Australia
Teaching and researching in the area of psychology, with a focus on metacognition and statistical methods.
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