Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Biography
Professor Paul Burnett - Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research)
(DipT KGCAE, BEdSt MEdSt UofQ, DipAppPsych Flinders, PhD Ohio)
PAUL C. BURNETT (DipT, BEdSt, MEdSt, DipAppPsych, PhD) is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Vice-President at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. Prior to this he was Professor of Education and Head of the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. Previous to this he was Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Research Methods, and Director of the Centre for Cognitive Processes in Learning within the School of Learning and Development at Queensland University of Technology.
He is a Counselor, Counseling Psychologist and Educational and Developmental Psychologist. Additionally, he has been a Registered Teacher and Psychologist in Queensland, a Member of the Australian Psychological Society and a member of the APS Colleges of Counseling, and Educational and Developmental Psychology. He is a member of the Australian Guidance and Counseling Association, a former Vice-President of the Queensland Guidance and Counseling Association.
He has five degrees in Education and Psychology with his PhD being in Counselor Education. He has operated a general private practice in counseling psychology that involved assessment and treatment of adults and children. During his doctoral training, he worked in a community-based mental health clinic and an in-patient psychiatric ward.
He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications in a variety of academic and professional forums and has been associated with more than a million dollars for research grants. Professor Burnett has researched and written in the areas of self-concept, self-esteem, self-talk, childhood depression, bereavement reactions, suicide, decision-making, and the wish to hasten death in the terminally ill. He has national and international reputations in the field of self-concept and self-esteem in children and has published widely in this area.