Dr John Mingoia is an Online Course Facilitator for the Psychology programs at UniSA Online. He is responsible for the delivery of high-quality online teaching for undergraduate students as well as the supervision of Honours and postgraduate research students. He completed his PhD (Psychology) at UniSA in 2018 on cancer prevention, with a focus on sociocultural pressures related to appearance modification and developed a social media intervention to target tanning attitudes and intentions as risk factors for skin cancer development in young adults. He is also a member of the Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Centre, with his primary research interests in body image, cancer prevention, and health promotion. This includes sociocultural pressures ... Read more
About me
Dr John Mingoia is an Online Course Facilitator for the Psychology programs at UniSA Online. He is responsible for the delivery of high-quality online teaching for undergraduate students as well as the supervision of Honours and postgraduate research students. He completed his PhD (Psychology) at UniSA in 2018 on cancer prevention, with a focus on sociocultural pressures related to appearance modification and developed a social media intervention to target tanning attitudes and intentions as risk factors for skin cancer development in young adults. He is also a member of the Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Centre, with his primary research interests in body image, cancer prevention, and health promotion. This includes sociocultural pressures for appearance modification (e.g., social media), body image disturbance, the influence of media on determinants of health, as well the award of UniSA Online Research Incentive Grants in 2022 and 2023 to investigate tertiary student wellbeing and academic performance.
Dr John Mingoia was the recipient of the University of South Australia Medal in 2013 for graduating in the top 0.5% of his academic unit, regular Chancellor’s Commendations from 2012-2014, and was recognised by The Australian in 2020 as one of the top 5 researchers from Australian universities and research institutions in his discipline area who were less than 10 years into their career. He was also awarded a place in the UniSA Early Career Researcher Academy in 2022. Dr Mingoia’s research has been published many times in quartile 1 journals, is widely cited, has been presented at national and international conferences, and has been featured across media formats including televsision, newspaper, and radio.
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) University of South Australia
Bachelor of Arts (Writing and Creative Communication) University of South Australia
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
Year | Output |
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2024 |
Open access
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2023 |
Open access
1
69
|
2023 |
Open access
6
5
1
|
2022 |
Open access
16
19
2
|
2022 |
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2022 |
Open access
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2020 |
Open access
6
3
43
|
2019 |
Open access
23
20
2
|
2019 |
Open access
32
30
2
|
2017 |
7
7
|
2017 |
22
18
2
|
2017 |
Open access
142
128
41
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External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Cancer Council of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Top 40 young researcher, Early Achievers Leaderboard: Rising StarsResearch supplement, The Australian |
2020 |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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110453 - Self-Compassion as a Protective Factor in the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Body Image | Current |