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Dr Caitlin A. Howlett is a behavioural science Research Projects Officer within the Public Health & Wellbeing Group at CSIRO. She works across a range of research projects that are broadly focussed on improving public health and wellbeing, changing retail food environments, and designing and delivering behaviour change interventions to prevent the onset of chronic conditions, particularly through the use of smartphone technology. She has skills in managing large-scale projects, designing and administering online surveys, data analysis, and conducting large-scale systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Caitlin is interested in how scientific knowledge is translated and applied to real-world contexts to improve public health outcomes and trajectories. Recently, Caitlin has become interested in co-designing research in collaboration with consumers to enhance its relevance and real-world significance.

In 2023, she completed her PhD program at the University of South Australia. Her doctoral work investigated cognitive flexibility - the ability to effectively adapt cognitive and behavioural strategies in response to changing task or environmental demands - as a marker of vulnerability in people with persistent pain conditions. Particularly, her work focused on improving the psychometric understanding of self-report and neuropsychological assessments that are typically used to assess cognitive flexibility, which, in turn, has been influential in shaping how the construct of cognitive flexibility is currently conceptualised and operationalised in research and clinical settings.

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Employment (1)

CSIRO: Adelaide, AU

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Education and qualifications (2)

University of South Australia: Adelaide, South Australia, AU

2018-09-03 to 2023-04-03 | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (Allied Health and Human Performance, IIMPACT in Health)
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University of South Australia : Adelaide , South Australia, AU

2014-03-04 to 2018-10-11 | Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) (School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy )
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Professional activities (1)

Golden Key International Honour Society: GA, GA, US

2016-04-27 to present
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Australian Government Research Training Program

2018-09 to 2022-03 | Salary award
Australian Government (ACT, ACT, AU)
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Works (11)

Insights from the CSIRO Health Behaviour and Mental Wellbeing Survey: A comprehensive population-based approach

2024-12-10 | Conference paper
Contributors: Naomi Lee Kakoschke; Caitlin A. Howlett; Gilly A Hendrie; Megan Rebuli; Brindal, Emily
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An improved diagrammatic procedure for interpreting and scoring the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test: An update to Steve Berry’s 1996 edition

Behavior Research Methods
2024-10-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Caitlin A. Howlett; G. Lorimer Moseley
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Strategies associated with improved healthiness of consumer purchasing in supermarket interventions: a systematic overview of reviews and evaluation of primary articles

Frontiers in Public Health
2024-06-25 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2296-2565
Contributors: Paige G. Brooker; Caitlin A. Howlett; Emily Brindal; Gilly A. Hendrie
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What’s in store for you? Identifying effective initiatives used in supermarket interventions to improve consumer purchasing: a systematic review

2024-05-07 | Conference abstract
Contributors: Paige G. Brooker; Caitlin A. Howlett; Brindal, Emily; Gilly A Hendrie
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Investigating self-report and neuropsychological assessments of cognitive flexibility in people with and without persistent pain: An online, cross-sectional, observational study

British Journal of Pain
2024-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Caitlin A Howlett; Tyman Stanford; Carolyn Berryman; Emma L Karran; Valeria Bellan; Scott Coussens; Stephanie Miles; G Lorimer Moseley
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Conflation between self-report and neurocognitive assessments of cognitive flexibility: a critical review of the Jingle Fallacy

Australian Journal of Psychology
2023-12-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Caitlin A. Howlett; Stephanie Miles; Carolyn Berryman; Andrea Phillipou; G. Lorimer Moseley
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Back to the drawing board—The relationship between self-report and neuropsychological tests of cognitive flexibility in clinical cohorts: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Neuropsychology
2022-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Caitlin A. Howlett; Michael A. Wewege; Carolyn Berryman; Annika Oldach; Elizabeth Jennings; Emily Moore; Emma L. Karran; Kimberley Szeto; Leander Pronk; Stephanie Miles et al.
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EEG and behavioral correlates of attentional processing while walking and navigating naturalistic environments

Scientific Reports
2021-11-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Magnus Liebherr; Andrew W. Corcoran; Phillip M. Alday; Scott Coussens; Valeria Bellan; Caitlin A. Howlett; Maarten A. Immink; Mark Kohler; Matthias Schlesewsky; Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
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Considerations for using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test to assess cognitive flexibility

Behavior Research Methods
2021-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Stephanie Miles; Caitlin A. Howlett; Carolyn Berryman; Maja Nedeljkovic; G. Lorimer Moseley; Andrea Phillipou
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Same room - different windows? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between self-report and neuropsychological tests of cognitive flexibility in healthy adults

Clinical Psychology Review
2021-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0272-7358
Contributors: Caitlin A. Howlett; Michael A. Wewege; Carolyn Berryman; Annika Oldach; Elizabeth Jennings; Emily Moore; Emma L. Karran; Kimberley Szeto; Leander Pronk; Stephanie Miles et al.
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EEG and behavioral correlates of attentional processing while walking and navigating naturalistic environments

2021-05-27 | Other
Contributors: Magnus Liebherr; Andrew W. Corcoran; Phillip M. Alday; Scott Coussens; Valeria Bellan; Caitlin A. Howlett; Maarten A. Immink; Mark Kohler; Matthias Schlesewsky; Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
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