Educational & Developmental Psychology

Tackling the significant issues of our time through positive psychology

This program aims to produce high-quality empirical research on the factors that allows humans to flourish and, in so doing, contribute to their community and society at large. The program includes research with a focus on interventions and randomized control trials as well as the use of cutting edge statistical methods applied to large-scale longitudinal or cross-country survey data. A major focus is on adolescence and development in context with a particular focus on education. The development of new statistical approaches to better address questions of human flourishing is also a major aim of the program.

Program Leader

• Associate Professor Theresa Dicke (Acting Deputy Director)

Deputy Program Leader

• Associate Professor Baljinder Sahdra

Research Team

• Professor Herb Marsh - Professor
• Professor Phil Parker - Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor Research
• Professor Joseph Ciarrochi - Professor
• Professor Reinhard Pekrun - Professorial Fellow
• Associate Professor Jiesi Guo - DECRA Research Fellow and IPPE HDR Coordinator
• Dr Geetanjali Basarkod - Research Fellow

Research Program Coordinator

• Dr HeeRa Ko