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Senior Teaching Fellow

Celia Lie image

Email celia.lie@otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 3765

Dr Celia Lie completed her PhD in 2007 at the University of Otago under the supervision of Dr Brent Alsop. After working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington for two years, Celia returned to Otago in 2009 to take up a Teaching Fellow position in the Department of Psychology. Her research and teaching interests are in the general area of behaviour analysis, focusing on factors that influence people's choice behaviour, and behavioural intervention strategies that target community issues.

Celia has two decades of demonstrating and lecturing experience, and is involved with the co-ordination of the laboratory programmes for PSYC 111 (Brain and Behaviour) and PSYC 112 (Human Thought and Behaviour). She is also the paper co-ordinator and lecturer for PSYC 328 (Behaviour Analysis in Everyday Life), and is involved in outreach and community engagement activities, promoting Psychology outside of the University community.

Teaching

Publications

Lie, C., & Goh, S. (2025, November). A change would do you good: Using a research-based learning approach to teach community behaviour change. Verbal presentation at the University of Otago Learning and Teaching Symposium: Learning through the Lens of Educators, [Hybrid]. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Mason, A., Johnstone, G., Riordan, B. C., Lie, C., Rapsey, C., Treharne, G. J., Jang, K., Collings, S., & Scarf, D. (2022). Understanding Aotearoa New Zealand university students intentions to seek help if experiencing mental distress: A comparison of naturalistic and interventional findings. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health, 19, 15836. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192315836 Journal - Research Article

Flett, J. A. M., Lie, C., Riordan, B. C., Thompson, L. M., Conner, T. S., & Hayne, H. (2017). Sharpen your pencils: Preliminary evidence that adult coloring reduces depressive symptoms and anxiety. Creativity Research Journal, 29(4), 409-416. doi: 10.1080/10400419.2017.1376505 Journal - Research Article

Lie, C., Macaskill, A. C., & Harper, D. N. (2016). The effect of MDMA on sensitivity to reinforcement rate. Behavioral Neuroscience, 130(2), 243-251. doi: 10.1037/bne0000125 Journal - Research Article

Flett, J. A. M., Lie, C., Riordan, B. C., Thompson, L. M., Hayne, H., & Conner, T. S. (2016). Adult colouring books and mental health: Are they all they're chalked up to be? Maybe, yes! International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 23(Suppl. 1), (pp. S3). doi: 10.1007/s12529-016-9586-3 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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