Research Interests

Climate Emotions and Appeals

Individual and Collective Climate Action

Policy Perceptions

Protection Motivation Theory

Mixed-methods

Representative Publications

Mackay, M. I., Klas, A., Kothe, E. J., Barford, K., Fernando, J.W., & Ling, M. (2026) Understanding what Australians find fearful and hopeful about climate change through qualitative approaches. PLoS One 21(1): e0339306. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0339306

Evans, S., Skvarc, D., Esterman, A., Mackay, M.I., O’Shea, M., Van Niekerk, L., Druitt, M., Tsaltas, J., Knowles, S.R., Parigi, E., Stanley, K., Harris, J., Barber, M., Dober, M., Dowding, C., Mikocka-Walus, A. (2025). Telehealth cognitive behaviour therapy improves health-related quality of life and pain in endometriosis: The Healing Pelvic Pain Intervention (HaPPI) study. Human Reproduction Open. 

Barber, E., Mackay, M. I., Mikocka-Walus, A., Linck, A., Walker, A., & Evans, S. (2025). ‘I feel like a mermaid and the sea is my home’: A qualitative exploration of wild swimming, meaning and well-being in Victoria, Australia. People and Nature, 7, 2544–2555. doi: 10.1002/pan3.70126

Mackay, M. I., Klas, A., Fernando, J., Kothe, E. J., & Ling, M. (2025). Using protection motivation theory to explain Australian's motivations to engage in individual and collective climate actions. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 28, e12660. doi: 10.1111/ajsp.12660 

Klas, A., Clarke, E., Fielding, K., Mackay, M., Lohmann, S., Ling, M. (2023). Investigating how economic and national identity loss messages impact climate change policy support. Climatic Change. doi: 10.1007/s10584-022-03472-2  

Chatterton, M. L., Marangu, E., Clancy, E. M., Mackay, M., Gu, E., Moylan, S., Langbein, A., & O’Shea, M. (2022). Telehealth service delivery in an Australian regional mental health service during COVID-19: A mixed methods analysis. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 16(1), 43. doi: 10.1186/s13033-022-00553-8

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