Diane Sivasubramaniam

Diane Sivasubramaniam is Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Swinburne University. She is currently Director of the Social Psychology of Innovation (SPI) Research Group at Swinburne, and leads (with Dr. Sam Wilson) the Public Interest Technology Research Program in Swinburne University’s Social Innovation Research Institute.

Diane was awarded her PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2006. Before moving to Swinburne University, she completed Postdoctoral Fellowships at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Barnard College, Columbia University, and was an Assistant Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in Canada.

Diane's research focuses on the social psychology of procedural and distributive justice, with applications in jury decision making, interrogations, and law enforcement technologies. Diane is an Associate Editor of Law and Human Behaviour and the APA Handbook of Forensic Psychology.