Current and previous appointments:

 

  Head of Department, University of Western Australia, Feb 2000-2003.

  Visiting Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford, Michealmas term 1999.

  Professor, University of Western Australia, July 1996-.

  Honorary Academic Associate, Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Anti Cancer Council of Victoria. (1994-)

  Associate Professor and Reader, Melbourne University, November 1992

  Senior Lecturer, Melbourne University, July, 1989

  Lecturer, Melbourne University March, 1985

  Visiting Lecturer, Department of Physiological Sciences, The Medical School, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  September & October, 1989.

  Research Fellow, Department of Physiology-Anatomy, University of California; Berkeley, California. March to September,1989.

  Visiting Lecturer, Department of Physiological Sciences, The Medical School, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. January & February, 1988.

  Addison-Wheeler Research Fellow for the Life Sciences. Durham University, England, 1984

  Post-doctoral researcher in Physiology. with Prof G. Westheimer. Department of Physiology-Anatomy, University of California, Berkeley. September 1983- September 1984.

  Non-stipendiary  Lecturer  in  Psychology,  St  Anne's College, Oxford. 1983 (Michealmas Term).

  Perception Tutorial  Teaching  at  Oxford,  1980-1983.(Colleges: Lincoln,  Jesus,  Sommerville,  St Hugh's, St Anne's).

  Research assistant for Dr. W.J. Lovegrove. University of Tasmania, Department of Psychology. 1979-1980.

  Remedial reading teacher for Centacare(Catholic  Family  Welfare Association) for 3 years part-time, 1977-1980.

 

Career Awards:

      Rhodes Scholarship (1980)

      Australian Psychological Society Early Career Award (1988)

      Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society (1994-)

      Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia (2002-)