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A History of the Psychology Schools at Adelaide's Universities The high-quality paperback edition of this book is available for purchase online: https://shop.adelaide.edu.au/ A History of the Psychology Schools at Adelaide's Universities Edited by Tony Winefield and Ted Nettelbeck Published in Adelaide by University of Adelaide Press Barr Smith Library The University of Adelaide South Australia 5005 [email protected] www.adelaide.edu.au/press The Barr Smith Press is an imprint of the University of Adelaide Press, under which titles about the history of the University are published. The University of Adelaide Press publishes peer reviewed scholarly books. It aims to maximise access to the best research by publishing works through the internet as free downloads and for sale as high quality printed volumes. © 2016 The Contributors This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License. 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For the full Cataloguing-in-Publication data please contact the National Library of Australia: [email protected] ISBN (paperback) 978-1-925261-36-3 ISBN (ebook: pdf) 978-1-925261-37-0 ISBN (ebook: epub) 978-1-925261-38-7 ISBN (ebook: kindle) 978-1-925261-39-4 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20851/history-psychology Book design: Zoë Stokes Cover design: John Emerson Cover images: iStockphoto (brain transparency), Wikipedia (photographs) Paperback printed by Griffin Press, South Australia Contents List of contributors vii Preface xi Tony Winefield 1 Introduction 1 Tony Winefield 2 The origins and early history of the University 11 of Adelaide's School of Psychology Malcolm Jeeves and Tony Winefield 3 The later years 43 Anna Chur-Hansen 4 Teaching applied psychology at the University 77 of Adelaide: A personal view Neil Kirby 5 Flinders University: Psychology in the 125 twentieth century Leon Lack 6 Recent history of Flinders School of Psychology 155 Tracey Wade 7 The history of Psychology at the University 183 of South Australia: From little things big things grow Jacques Metzer 8 The history of Psychology at the University 195 of South Australia: Recent history Kurt Lushington List of contributors We are most grateful for the contributions to the book made by our co-authors. Each has provided a brief autobiographical sketch, which we reproduce alphabetically below. Anna Chur‑Hansen was born in Adelaide in 1963. After matriculating from Findon High School, she commenced a Bachelor of Arts with honours in psychology at the University of Adelaide, 1981-84. Her PhD, in medical education, was completed in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, where she served as an academic member of staff from 1987 to 2013, including periods as acting head. She is a registered psychologist, and holds an endorsement in health psychology. She returned to psychology at the University of Adelaide in late 2013 to become head of school. Norman T Feather is emeritus professor of psychology at Flinders University. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney, the University of New England and the University of Michigan, where he received the Donald G Marquis Award for his doctoral dissertation. He is a past president and honorary fellow of theAustralian Psychological Society and recipient of their Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. He is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and a recipient of honorary degrees from the University of New England and Flinders University. He is also the recipient of the Turner Medal from the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists. He has published widely in the areas of achievement motivation; expectancy-value theory; attribution theory; gender roles and stereotypes; the psychology of values; social attitudes; the psychological impact of unemployment, deservingness, entitlement and justice-related behaviour; and emotions. He has authored or edited six books. Malcolm A Jeeves completed military service from 1945 to 1948, after which he went up to Cambridge to read natural sciences and experimental psychology, remaining there to continue his research under Sir Frederic Bartlett FRS. He spent a year working with Professor Jerome Bruner at Harvard in 1953-54. In 1959, he was appointed to the foundation chair of psychology at the University of Adelaide, where he remained for ten years, before taking up his current position as foundation professor of psychology at the University of St Andrews. He is a past president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy, a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, fellow of the British Psychological Society and a former fellow of the Australian Psychological viii | PSYCHOLOGY SCHOOLS AT ADELAIDE’S UNIVERSITIES Society. He was made a Commander of the British Empire [CBE] in 1991 for services to science and to psychology in Britain. A past editor-in-chief of Neuropsychologia, he has authored, co-authored or edited eighteen books and many scientific papers. Neil Kirby is a senior lecturer and director of the Wellbeing Research Unit in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide. His research interests are in disability and organisational psychology. He was appointed a tutor in the then Department of Psychology in 1970. In 1974 he became the Bedford Industries research fellow, a large multidiagnostic rehabilitation centre in Adelaide. He became a full-time lecturer in 1992. He has taught applied psychology in the Diploma of Applied Psychology and in the Master of Psychology (Clinical) Course which replaced the Diploma, and he currently teaches primarily in the Master of Psychology (Organisational and Human Factors). Leon Lack received his first degree from Stanford University in the US and his PhD from the University of Adelaide. Since 1971, he has been at Flinders University in the School of Psychology, teaching and conducting research in the areas of sleep, circadian rhythms, bright light therapy and insomnia. He has received many large research grants, published over 100 refereed articles, books and book chapters, and given over 200 conference papers in the sleep area. Since 1992, he has also directed the non-drug treatment program for insomnia at the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, Repatriation General Hospital. Professor Lack has also taken an active role in public education about sleep and the body clock through invited lectures, workshops, media presentations, and the publication of a popular book on the treatment of insomnia. He has patents for, and is co-inventor of, a portable bright light therapy device, Re-timer.com, used for the treatment of a mistimed body clock. Kurt Lushington joined the School of Psychology at the University of South Australia as lecturer 1996. He completed his Master of Psychology (Clinical) and PhD at Flinders University of South Australia in 1998. His thesis work and subsequent research has explored extensively all aspects to do with sleep and its disorders. He is the current chair of the Australasian Sleep Association sub-committee for Behavioural Management of Sleep Disorders. He is a fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and a practising clinical psychologist. His current research outputs include eighty-eight peer-reviewed publications and fourteen book chapters. He has been a principle investigator on Category One grant funding (OLT, NHMRC and ARC), and a principle/associate supervisor of seventeen PhD students and eight doctorate of counselling/psychology students. He has taught psychology both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level and offshore in Singapore and Hong Kong. He is the current head of school for the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy at the University of South Australia. PSYCHOLOGY SCHOOLS AT ADELAIDE’S UNIVERSITIES | ix Jacques Metzer completed a Bachelor of Science (Honours) and a PhD in the effects of social facilitation during operant conditioning of humans and laboratory rats at the University of Adelaide. He was appointed lecturer in 1977, then senior lecturer in 1984 at the then South Australian Institute of Technology. He served as the founding head of the School of Psychology at the University of South Australia from 1994 to 2005 and as associate professor from 2001 till 2009. Currently (2016), he is adjunct professor of clinical psychology at the University of Technology Sydney. Having registered to practise in 1977, he continues his registration nationally, maintaining an active role in psychology practice since 1983. With colleagues he has attracted approximately $1 million in research grants and has produced fifty-five publications, eighty conference papers and thirty-four other reports. He is a member of the Working Committee of the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council and a fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, having served for many years as its chair and secretary of the South Australia State Branch and since 2012 on its national Ethics Committee. His interests over the years have ranged from animal behaviour to professional areas of applied psychology and currently in professional ethics and in stress and wellbeing at work.