OUR PEOPLE

Winthrop Professor Stephen Houghton

Winthrop Professor Stephen Houghton is Director of the Centre for Child & Adolescent Related Disorders at the University of Western Australia and a registered psychologist. The focus of his research is child and adolescent psychopathology and mental health. He has led multisite large-scale research projects examining trajectories of psychopathology, using cross sectional, longitudinal and accelerated research designs. Professor Houghton has been highly successful in securing externally competitive research funding and he has an extensive track record of publications and successful postgraduate supervision. In 2009 he was awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Excellence in University Teaching Award (Social Sciences Category) and a 2009 Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contribution to University Student Learning (exemplary postgraduate teaching and research supervision in child and adolescent developmental psychopathology). Professor Houghton is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society with invited memberships to the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology and the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy. Professor Houghton is also Associate Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology.

Associate Professor Annemaree Carroll

Dr Annemaree Carroll is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and is a registered psychologist and teacher. Over the past 17 years, her research activities have focused on the self-regulatory processes of adolescent behaviour and child and adolescent emotional and behavioural difficulties. She has been particularly concerned with developing innovative multimedia methods and strategies for enhancing the engagement and motivation of at-risk children and youth to bring about positive change in their lives and was a Chief Investigator on federally funded grants to develop the innovative KooLKIDS and Mindfields programs. Dr. Carroll has published widely in the field and has been the successful recipient of numerous grants, awards, and research tenders.

Professor John Hattie

Professor John Hattie is Director of the Melbourne Educational Research Institute at the University of Melbourne. His areas of interest are measurement models and their applications to educational problems, and models of teaching and learning. He has been successful in attracting extensive research funding and has successfully supervised numerous postgraduate research students. Professor Hattie is past editor of the International Journal of Testing, President-elect of the International Test Commission, associate editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology, serves on many other editorial boards, and has published and presented over 600 papers and presentations. Professor Hattie’s work is internationally acclaimed and his influential book Visible Learning: A synthesis of over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement is believed to be the world’s largest evidence-based study into what factors improve student learning.

Associate Professor Lisa Wood

Associate Professor Lisa Wood is based at The University of Western Australia, and is the Deputy Director of the Centre for the Built Environment and Health within the School of Population Health, and is an honorary research fellow with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. She is involved in a diverse mix of research relating to the way in which our social and built environments impact on health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on reducing health inequalities, mental health and social determinants of wellbeing. Underpinning all of Lisa’s work is a strong emphasis on research that is useful and relevant to the 'real world'. Prior to entering academia, Lisa worked in the fields of health promotion and public health in areas of policy and legislation development, social marketing campaigns, and program planning, implementation and evaluation. Lisa has worked with a diversity of academic, government and non-government organisations, and has been engaged as a public health consultant in WA, nationally, and internationally. She is active in community and professional service roles, and serves on the Boards of the Heart Foundation (WA) and Relationships Australia (WA) , chairs committees for Healthway and the Telethon Institute of Child Health Research, and is on the Mentally Healthy WA advisory group.