Rate My Professor Kylie Rice

Associate Professor Kylie Rice serves as Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of New England. She holds multiple leadership positions, including Acting Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Medicine and Health, Academic Lead for Pedagogical Research in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, HDR Coordinator for the School of Psychology, and Course Coordinator for the PhD Clinical Psychology program. Rice is a prominent healthcare educator, practitioner, and researcher known for her innovations in teaching, research, and leadership within professional and clinical psychology. She has spearheaded the development of Australia's first fully simulated online placement in professional psychology, addressing key challenges in training during and post-COVID-19. Additionally, she leads the Competencies of Professional Psychology Rating Scales (COPPR Scales; Rice et al., 2022, 2025), a tool for assessing healthcare practitioner competencies.

Rice's research specializations encompass pedagogical research, assessment and development of healthcare practitioner competencies, rural health, wellbeing, mental health, clinical psychology, and environmental psychology. Her publications explore critical areas such as mental health help-seeking among rural youth, psychosocial experiences of oncology patients in rural settings, the impact of extreme weather events on farmers' mental health, and integration of traditional healing with biomedical care for mental illness. Notable works include 'The weather as a determinant of farmer's mental health: A dependent, interacting, cumulative and escalating model (DICE) of the effects of extreme weather events' (2024), 'Healing through meaning as an aspect of spirituality for Indigenous Australians: a qualitative study' (2023), 'The shame of sexual violence towards women in rural areas' (2023), and 'Psychosocial Experiences in an Australian Rural Cancer Service: Mixed-Method Insights into Psychological Distress and Psychosocial Service Barriers' (2023). Rice has earned the 2023 Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australian Awards for University Teaching and the Australian Award for University Teaching in May 2024 for her simulated placement innovation. As an experienced HDR supervisor, she contributes to advancing psychological research and education.