The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Conjoint Professor David Powis
School: School of Psychology
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Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Conjoint Professor David Powis 2001 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant Eleventh International Symposium on Chromaffin Cell Biology, USA 3-8 September 2001   2234  
Associate Professor Phillip Dickson;Conjoint Professor David Powis 2000 1 Australian Research Council Small Grant Loss of control of dopamine synthesis and induction of neurodegeneration in Parkinson' Disease.   10000  
Dr Tat Cheah;Emeritus Professor Peter Dunkley;Conjoint Professor David Powis 2000 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant Mechanisms of ATP-stimulated phosphorylation and activation of tyrosine hydroxylase.   12000  
Emeritus Professor Peter Dunkley;Conjoint Professor David Powis;Dr Tat Cheah 1999 3 National Health & Medical Research Council Project Grant Mechanisms of angiotensin-stimulated phosphorylation & activation of tyrosine hydroxylase   203316  
Conjoint Professor David Powis 1999 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant 10th International symposium on Chromaffin Cell Biology, Bergen, Norway.   2289  
Professor Manohar Garg;Conjoint Professor David Powis 1999 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and cell signalling.   11000  
Dr Stephen Bunn;Professor Manohar Garg;Conjoint Professor David Powis 1998 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant Fatty acid modification of phospholipase C mediated responses.   14000  
Dr Stephen Bunn;Conjoint Professor David Powis 1997 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant A novel CI-mediated mechanism for the regulation of phospholipase C.   15000  
Conjoint Professor David Powis 1997 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant Gordon Conference, Queens College Oxford, UK, 7-12 September 1997   2473  
Conjoint Professor David Powis 1996 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant 8th International Symposium on Chromaffin Cell Biology, Edinburgh, Scotland, 6-11 Aug 1995   2419  
Conjoint Professor David Powis 1996 1 University of Newcastle Special Project Grant Intracellular Ca2+ stores, capacitative Ca2+ entry and catecholamine secretion   10000  
Conjoint Professor David Powis;Dr Stephen Bunn 1995 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant Regulation by internal Ca2+ of Ca2+ entry into cells   14000  
Conjoint Professor David Powis 1995 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant 8th Intern. Symposium on Chromaffin Cell Biology, Scotland, 6-11 Aug   2500  
Conjoint Professor David Powis;Dr Stephen Bunn 1995 1 Ian Potter Foundation Research Grant Inverted Microscope   3000  
Conjoint Professor David Powis 1994 1 National Health & Medical Research Council Equipment Grant 94 EQUIP. Luminescence Spectrometer for Fluoresence Assay   33000  
Conjoint Professor David Powis 1993 1 Smoking & Health Research Foundation of Australia Research Grant Modulation Of The Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor   40000  
Conjoint Professor David Powis 1993 1 Government Employees Medical Research Fund Project Grant Sodium-calcium Exchange In Cellular Calcium Homeostasis In Adrenal Medulla.   35300  
Conjoint Professor David Powis 1993 1 Government Employees Medical Research Fund Project Grant Sodium-calcium Exchange In Cellular Calcium Homeostasis In Adrenal Medulla.   35300  
Conjoint Professor David Powis 1993 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant '32nd International Congress of Physiological Sciences' Glasgow, Scotland - 1 - 6 August 1993   2400  
Conjoint Professor David Powis 1992 1 University of Newcastle Project Grant Effect Of Elf And Ulf Electromagnetic Fields Of Neurotransmitter Relase From Adrenal Chromaffin Cells   3300  
Conjoint Professor David Powis 1991 1 Smoking & Health Research Foundation of Australia Research Grant Modulation Of The Nocotinic Acetylcholine Receptor   15000  
Conjoint Professor David Powis;Emeritus Professor Peter Dunkley;Professor John Rostas;Emeritus Professor Anthony Smith 1991 1 National Health & Medical Research Council Equipment Grant Beta Scintillation Spectrometer   37552  
Conjoint Professor David Powis 1991 1 National Health & Medical Research Council Project Grant Calicum And Transmitter Release From The Adrenal Medulla   36297  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
PhD (Nursing) Principal Supervisor Factors That Impact Bachelor of Nursing Students¿ Clinical and Academic Performance and Progression

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
PhD 0.400

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
PhD (Psychology - Arts) 2002 The Psychology of Morality: a Libertarian-Communitarian Dimension and a Dissonance Model of Moral Decision Making
PhD (Behavioural Science) 2009 Work Motivations as Predictors of Academic and Clinical Performance and Satisfaction with Career Choice in Medical Students

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Prideaux David, Roberts Chris, Eva Kevin, Centeno Angel, McCrorie Peter, McManus Chris, Patterson Fiona, Powis David Alan, Tekian Ara, Wilkinson David, ’Assessment for selection for the health care professions and specialty training: Consensus statement and recommendations from the Ottawa 2010 Conference’, Medical Teacher, 33 215-223 (2011) [C1]

McManus I C, Ferguson Eamonn, Wakeford Richard, Powis David Alan, James David, ’Predictive validity of the Biomedical Admissions Test: An evaluation and case study’, Medical Teacher, 33 53-57 (2011) [C1]

Dowell Jon, Lumsden Mary Ann, Powis David Alan, Munro Donald, Bore Miles Richard, Makubate Boikanyo, Kumwenda Ben, ’Predictive validity of the personal qualities assessment for selection of medical students in Scotland’, Medical Teacher, 33 E485-E488 (2011) [C1]

McManus I C, Ferguson Eamonn, Wakeford Richard, Powis David Alan, James David, ’Response to comments by Emery and Bell, Medical Teacher 33(1): (this issue)’, Medical Teacher, 33 60-61 (2011) [C3]

Powis David Alan, ’Improving the selection of medical students’, British Medical Journal, 340 3 (2010) [C3]

Bore Miles Richard, Munro Donald, Powis David Alan, ’A comprehensive model for the selection of medical students’, Medical Teacher, 31 1066-1072 (2009) [C1]

James David, Ferguson Eamonn, Powis David Alan, Bore Miles Richard, Munro Donald, Symonds Ian Martin, Yates Janet, ’Graduate entry to medicine: Widening psychological diversity’, BMC Medical Education, 9 1-8 (2009) [C1]

Powis David Alan, ’Personality testing in the context of selecting health professionals’, Medical Teacher, 31 1045-1046 (2009) [C3]

James David, Feguson Eamonn, Powis David Alan, Symonds Ian, Yates Janet, ’Graduate entry to medicine: Widening academic and socio-demographic access’, Medical Education, 42 294-300 (2008) [C1]

Powis David Alan, ’In Reply [Letter]’, Medical Journal of Australia, 189 236 (2008) [C3]

Powis David Alan, ’Selecting medical students’, Medical Journal of Australia, 188 323-324 (2008) [C3]

Powis David Alan, James D, Ferguson E, ’Demographic and socio-economic associations with academic attainment (UCAS tariff scores) in applicants to medical school’, Medical Education, 41 242-249 (2007) [C1]

Migues Paola Virginia, Cammarota Martin Pablo, Kavanagh J, Atkinson Rebbekah Josephine, Powis David Alan, Rostas John Andrew, ’Maturational changes in the subunit composition of AMPA receptors and the functional consequences of their activation in chicken forebrain’, Developmental Neuroscience, 29 232-240 (2007) [C1]

McManus C, Powis David Alan, ’Testing medical school selection tests (Editorial)’, Medical Journal of Australia, 186 118-119 (2007) [C3]

Gibbons Jill Lorraine, Bore Miles Richard, Munro Donald, Powis David Alan, ’Using personal quality assessment for selection of social work students’, Australian Social Work, 60 210-221 (2007) [C1]

Powis David Alan, Hamilton J, McManus I C, ’Widening access by changing the criteria for selecting medical students’, Teaching and Teacher Education, 23 1235-1245 (2007) [C1]

Wright Bruce, Scott Ian, Powis David Alan, Woloschuk Wayne, Henry Richard, Turnbull Deborah, Ryan Greg, ’Career preferences of new medical students at four Australian universities: Rural family medicine versus the rest’, Australian Journal of Rural Health, 14 229--230 (2006) [C1]

Lyons Michael Joseph, Mackenzie Lynette Ann, Bore Miles Richard, Powis David Alan, ’Framing a set of non-academic selection criteria for occupational therapy students: An Australian study’, Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 53 284-292 (2006) [C1]

Powis David Alan, Bore Miles Richard, Munro Donald, ’Selecting medical students - Evidence based admissions procedures for medical students are being tested (letter)’, British Medical Journal, 332 1156-1156 (2006) [C3]

Bore Miles Richard, Lyall David Griffin, Dempsey Shane Edward, Powis David Alan, ’Assessment of Personal Qualities in Selection of Medical Radiation Science Students’, Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology, 33 180-185 (2005) [C1]

Lumsden M A, Bore Miles Richard, Millar K, Jack R, Powis David Alan, ’Assessment of personal qualities in relation to admission to medical school’, Medical Education, 39 258-265 (2005) [C1]

Powis David Alan, Bore Miles Richard, Munro Donald, Lumsden Mary Ann, ’Development of the Personal Qualities Assessment as a Tool for Selecting Medical Students’, Journal of Adult & Continuing Education, 11 03-14 (2005) [C1]

McManus I C, Powis David Alan, Wakeford R, Ferguson E, James D, Richards P, ’Intellectual aptitude tests and A levels for selecting UK school leaver entrants for medical school’, British Medical Journal, 331 555-559 (2005) [C1]

Bore Miles Richard, Munro Donald, Kerridge I, Powis David Alan, ’Not moral reasoning: A Libertarian - Communitarian dimension of moral orientation adn Schwartz's value types’, Australian Journal of Psychology, 57 38-48 (2005) [C1]

Munro Donald, Bore Miles Richard, Powis David Alan, ’Personality factors in professional ethical behaviour: Studies of empathy and narcissism’, Australian Journal of Psychology, 57 49-60 (2005) [C1]

Bore Miles Richard, Munro Donald, Kerridge Ian, Powis David Alan, ’Selection of medical students according to their moral orientation’, Medical Education, 39 266-275 (2005) [C1]

Powis David Alan, Hamilton John, Gordon Jill, ’Are graduate entry programmes the answer to recruiting and selecting tomorrow's doctors?’, Medical Education, 38 1147-1153 (2004) [C1]

Bore Miles Richard, Munro Donald, Powis David Alan, ’The Schwartz value model and a three-factor model of morality’, Australian Journal of Psychology, 56 58 (2004) [C3]

Powis David Alan, Zerbes Mariann, Herd Lynn Michelle, Dunkley Peter Robert, ’Angiotensin II Causes Calcium Entry into Bovine Adrenal Chromaffin Cells via Pathway(s) Activated by Depletion of Intracellular Calcium Stores’, Neurochemical Research, 28 1299-1306 (2003) [C1]

Bore Miles Richard, Munro Donald, Kerridge Ian, Powis David Alan, ’Libertarian and communitarian moral orientations and Schwartz's individual and collective value types’, Australian Journal of Psychology, 55 35 (2003) [C5]

Munro Donald, Bore Miles Richard, Powis David Alan, ’Personality factors in professional ethical behaviour: Studies of empathy and narcissism’, Australian Journal of Psychology, 55 54 (2003) [C5]

Powis David Alan, ’Selecting Medical Students’, Medical Education, 37 1064-1065 (2003) [C4]

Powis David Alan, Zerbes Mariann, ’In situ Chelation of Ca2+ In Intracellular Stores Induces Capacitative Ca2+ Entry in Bovine Adrenal Chromaffin Cells’, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 971 150-152 (2002) [C1]

Powis David Alan, Marley Pd, ’Ions, Channels, and Receptors’, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 971 95-99 (2002) [C1]

Grey M R, Pearson S-A, Rolfe I E, Kay F J, Powis David Alan, ’How do Australian Doctors with Different Pre-medical School Backgrounds Perform as Interns?’, Education for Health, 14 No. 1 87-96 (2001) [C1]

Lowe M, Kerridge I, Bore M, Munro D, Powis David Alan, ’Is is possible to assess the "ethics" of medical school applicants?’, Journal of Medical Ethics, 27 404-408 (2001) [C1]

Zerbes Mariann, Clark Carolyn Lee, Powis David Alan, ’Neurotransmitter release from bovine adrenal chromaffin cells is modulated by capacitative Ca2+ entry driven by depleted internal Ca2+ stores’, Cell Calcium, 29(1) 49-58 (2001) [C1]

Roberts-Thomson Emily Louise, Saunders Hi, Palmer Sm, Powis David Alan, Dunkley Pr, Bunn Sj, ’Ca2+ influx stimulated phosopholipase C activity in bovine adrenal chromaffin cells: responses to K+ depolarization and histamine’, European Journal of Pharmacology, 398 199-207 (2000) [C1]

Roberts-Thomson Emily Louise, Saunders Heather, Palmer S M, Powis David Alan, Dunkley Peter Robert, Bunn S J, ’Ca2+ influx stimulated phospholipase C activity in bovine adrenal chromaffin cells: responses to K+ depolarization and histamine’, European Journal of Pharmacology, 398 199-207 (2000) [C1]

Roberts-Thomson Emily Louise, Palmer Sm, Powis David Alan, Bunn Sj, ’Histamine-stimulated phospholipase C activity in bovine adrenal medullary chromaffin cells: the effect of chloride-channel antagonists and low extracellular chloride concentrations’, Neuroscience Letters, 278 93-96 (2000) [C1]

Marley Pd, Bales Pjr, Zerbes Mariann, Powis David Alan, O'Farrell M, ’Mobilizing Store Ca2+ in the Presence of La3+ Evokes Exocytosis in Bovine Chromaffin Cells’, Journal of Neurochemistry, 75(3) 1162-1171 (2000) [C1]

Bales Pr, Zerbes Mariann, Powis David Alan, Marley Pd, ’Effect of Gd3+ on bradykinin-induced catecholamine secretion from bovine adrenal chromaffin cells’, British Journal of Pharmacology, 128 1435-1444 (1999) [C1]

Powis David Alan, Marley Pd, Schneider As, ’Ins and Outs of Calcium : a workshop on chromaffin cells’, Cell Calcium, 26(3/4) 91-94 (1999) [C1]

Zerbes Mariann, Bunn Sj, Powis David Alan, ’Histamine causes Ca2+ entry via both a store-operated and a store-independent pathway in bovine adrenal chromaffin cells’, Cell Calcium, 23(6) 379-386 (1998) [C1]

Powis David Alan, ’How to do it Select medical students’, British Medical Journal, 317 1149-1150 (1998) [C1]

Powis David Alan, Rolfe I, ’Selection and Performance of Medical Students at Newcastle, New South Wales’, Education for Health, 11 (1) 15-23 (1998) [C1]

Chapter in Book

Bore Miles Richard, Ashley-Brown Gillian Margaret, Gallagher Emma Michelle, Powis David Alan, ’Personality and the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms in medicine and psychology students’, Personality Down Under: Perspectives from Australia, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, 167-176 (2008) [B1]

Munro Donald, Bore Miles Richard, Powis David Alan, ’Personality determinants of success in medical school & beyond: 'Steady, sane and nice'’, Personality Down Under: Perspectives from Australia, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, 103-111 (2008) [B1]

Conference Publication

Bore Miles Richard, Munro Donald, Bridge Paula Claire, Douglas Heather Elaine, Powis David Alan, ’A comparison of three personality trait models and the implications for selection into the medical and allied health professions’, Abstracts of the 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Melbourne, Australia (2010) [E3]

Pitt Victoria Lee, Powis David Alan, Levett-Jones Tracy Lynn, Hunter Sharyn, ’Altering selection strategies: The future of undergraduate nursing education’, ANZAME 2010: Overcoming Barriers, Re(E)Forming Professional Practice, Townsville, QLD (2010) [E3]

Munro Donald, Powis David Alan, Bore Miles Richard, ’Predictive validities of non-cognitive medical school selection tests’, 8th Australian Conference on Personality and Individual Differences. Programme, Wollongong, NSW (2010) [E3]

Munro Donald, Bore Miles Richard, Powis David Alan, ’Using the Sherman and Funder (2009) Method to validate a medical school selection model’, Abstracts of the 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Melbourne, Australia (2010) [E3]

Pitt Victoria Lee, Levett-Jones Tracy Lynn, Hunter Sharyn, Powis David Alan, ’Personal qualities and nursing students clinical & academic performance’, Australasian Nurse Educators Conference 2009: Concurrent Sessions, Christchurch, NZ (2009) [E3]

Munro Donald, Powis David Alan, Bore Miles Richard, ’Referees' reports can be very reliable, but also completely invalid’, 8th Australasian Conference on Personality & Individual Differences (ACPID09): Conference Program, Sydney, NSW (2009) [E3]

Pitt Victoria Lee, Levett-Jones Tracy Lynn, Hunter Sharyn, Powis David Alan, ’Selection or support: The best direction for improving undergraduate nursing?’, RCNA Annual Conference 09: Program and Book of Abstracts, Melbourne, VIC (2009) [E3]

Munro Donald, Bore Miles Richard, Powis David Alan, ’Validating the 'Steady, sane and nice' model with medical students’, 8th Australasian Conference on Personality & Individual Differences (ACPID09): Conference Program, Sydney, NSW (2009) [E3]

Munro Donald, Bore Miles Richard, Powis David Alan, ’Cross-cultural differences in extreme and acquiescent response styles’, Seventh Australian Conference on Personality and Individual Differences: Book of Abstracts & Program, Gold Coast, QLD (2008) [E3]

Munro Donald, Bore Miles Richard, Powis David Alan, ’Cultural and discipline differences within a two-factor model of moral types’, International Journal of Psychology, Berlin, Germany (2008) [E3]

Groves Michele, Powis David Alan, Bore Miles Richard, Munro Donald, ’Identifying aptitude for medical practice: How does the admissions interview rate?’, ANZAME Conference 2008. Conference Program, Abstracts and Papers, Sydney, NSW (2008) [E3]

Bore Miles Richard, Ashley-Brown Gillian Margaret, Gallagher Emma, Powis David Alan, ’Individual differences and the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms in medicine and psychology students’, International Journal of Psychology, Berlin, Germany (2008) [E3]

Munro Donald, Bore Miles Richard, Powis David Alan, ’Personality determinants of interpersonal professional behaviours in medical students’, International Journal of Psychology, Berlin, Germany (2008) [E3]

Bore Miles Richard, Ashley-Brown Gillian Margaret, Gallagher Emma, Powis David Alan, ’Personality and the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms in medicine and psychology students’, Australian Conference on Personality and Individual Differences (ACPID). Conference Abstracts, Sydney (2007) [E3]

Munro Donald, Bore Miles Richard, Powis David Alan, ’Selection of medical students: Methods and issues’, Proceedings of the 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece (2006) [E3]

Bore Miles Richard, Munro Donald, Powis David Alan, ’Individual differences when responding to moral dilemmas, Part 1: moral orientation and cognitive dissonance’, The 12th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Adelaide, Australia (2005) [E3]

Munro Donald, Bore Miles Richard, Powis David Alan, ’Individual differences when responding to moral dilemmas, Part 2: item response times as psychometric measures’, The 12th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Adelaide, Australia (2005) [E3]

Bore Miles Richard, Munro Donald, Powis David Alan, ’Individual differences when responding to moral dilemmas, Part 1: Orientation, cognitive dissonance and certainty’, Book of Abstracts and Program, Ballarat (2004) [E3]

Munro Donald, Bore Miles Richard, Powis David Alan, ’Individual differences when responding to moral dilemmas, Part 2: the relationship between item response latencies and standard psychometric measures’, Book of Abstracts and Program, Ballarat (2004) [E3]

Powis David Alan, Lyons Michael Joseph, Mackenzie Lynette Ann, Bore Miles Richard, ’Selecting Occupational Therapy students: Abilities and personal qualities for practice’, Proceedings of the ANZAME 2004, Adelaide (2004) [E3]

Lyons Michael Joseph, Bore Miles Richard, Mackenzie Lynette Ann, Powis David Alan, ’Determining Occupational Therapy Student Selection Criteria: Abilities and Personal Qualities in Practice’, The Network Towards Unity for Health, Newcastle (2003) [E3]

Bore Miles Richard, Munro Donald, Powis David Alan, ’Psychoticism, Self-control, and the facets of a trait of Aggression: initial findings’, Conference Program and Book of Abstracts, University of Queensland (2003) [E3]

Marsh N, Powis David Alan, ’From Nitroglycerine to Nitric Oxide : A Celebration of 150 Years of Science and Medicine’, Proceedings of the Australian Phgysiological and Pharmacological Society, Newcastle, Australia (1999) [E2]

Zerbes Mariann, Powis David Alan, ’INS(1,4,5)P3- and Caffeine-sensitive Intracellualr Ca2+ Stores in Bovine Adrenal Chromaffin Cells’, Proceedings of the Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society, Newcastle, Australia (1999) [E2]

Marley Pd, Bales Pjr, O'Farrell M, Powis David Alan, Zerbes Mariann, ’La3+ and Gd3+ Enhance the Efficacy of Intracellualr Ca2+ Release in Evoking Catecholamine Secretion from Bovine Chromaffin Cells’, Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society, Hobart, Australia (1999) [E2]

Powis David Alan, Zerbes Mariann, ’Modulation of Catecholamine Secretion by Intracellular Calcium Stores in Bovine Chromaffin Cells’, Journal of Physiology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (1999) [E1]

Powis David Alan, ’Problem-based learning - what is the problem?’, Journal of Physiology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (1999) [E1]

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