John Dunn

I am a native Sandgroper who went to UWA at an impressionable age to study Psychology. I completed Honours in 1976 and, after working for a year in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, I went back to school and eventually completed my PhD supervised by Kim Kirsner in 1985. I then joined the (then) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science where, for a number of years, I taught medical students all about Psychology. My time there was interrupted for one year spent in the Department of Psychology at the University of Queensland after which I moved to the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide. Here, I served as Deputy Head of School and then as Head of School during which time I was also the Chair of the Heads of Departments and Schools of Psychology Association. This in turn led to my appointment as a Director of the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council with two periods as Chair. In 2016, I “retired” from Adelaide and relocated to Perth, taking up an Adjunct Professorship at UWA. As there is no rest for the wicked, I also took up an appointment as Interim Dean of Psychology and Exercise Science at Murdoch University and then a part-time Professorship at Edith Cowan University, which brings up to the present.