Service and Leadership Within my Discipline
Leadership roles
Leadership roles
- From 2006-2013 I was 1 of 3 founding Editors, under an Editor-in-Chief, of a new journal published by Sage called Memory Studies. Together we proposed this new, interdisciplinary journal; built the Editorial Board; commissioned submissions to the first, high impact Issues to introduce the journal; promoted the journal amongst our networks; made editorial decisions about submissions including for Special Issues; edited manuscripts; and took turns to write Editorials for every Issue. I was joint author of three Editorials and sole author of two Editorials (see Other Publications above); one of my sole authored Editorials remains the most downloaded paper from this Journal.
- In 2010 I organised the Scientific and Workshop Program of the 40th Annual Congress of the Australian Society of Hypnosis (Sydney), featuring three keynotes, 20 presenters, and 70+ delegates.
- I Chaired the Organising Committee of the 4th International Conference on Memory (ICOM-4), held in Sydney in 2006. It was the largest ever memory conference, featuring 10 keynotes and over 650 delegates and brought ICOM and many Keynote Speakers to Australia for the first time.
Discipline representative - In April 2014 I represented Macquarie University at a Dementia Research Workshop convened by NSW Health, and am a co-signatory to a letter resulting from that meeting to the Federal Minister for Health re a 2014 Budget plan to boost dementia research.
- In March 2014 I was invited by Professor Susannah Radstone, Dean of Research & Research Education, University of South Australia to help develop a new interdisciplinary memory network in Australia.
- In March 2014 I was invited by Professor Glenn Withers, Chair of an Expert Working Group of the Australian Council of Learned Academy to contribute to their project “Australia’s Comparative Advantage”.
- In 2012 and 2013 I was invited to attend The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science at Parliament House, Canberra.
- From 2003-2006 I was a Member of the National Committee for Psychology, one of 22 national discipline committees of the Australian Academy of Science.
Contributions to committees - In 2014 I won the right with colleagues to host the 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
- In 2013 I was invited to join the Organising Committee for the 46th National Conference of the Australian Association of Gerontology, with the theme “Grey Expectations: Ageing in the 21st Century”, Sydney, Australia.
- In 2012 I was invited to join the Organising Committee for the 16th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Sussex, UK.
- In 2011 I was invited to join the Organising Committee for the 5th International Conference on Memory (ICOM-5), York, UK (as the successful organiser of ICOM-4, see above).
- In 2004 I was the Australian Psychological Society’s (APS) Directorate of Science representative on the Organising Committee for the 2004 APS Conference in Sydney.
- In 2004 I was a Member of the Board of the Division of Research and Teaching, Australian Psychological Society (APS).
Grant reviewing, thesis examination and editorial roles - Every year from 2004 I have served as an Australian Reader for Australian Research Council (ARC) funding schemes including: DECRAS, Discovery Projects, Future Fellowships, Linkage-Industry, Linkage-International, Linkage-Social Sciences Collaboration; I have assessed up to 15 applications in some rounds.
- In 2013 I was asked to assess a grant application by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation.
- In 2012 I was asked to assess an application for a Vidi Grant in the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.
- From 2003 to 2004 I was an International Assessor for ARC (Discovery Projects, Linkage-Industry) and NHMRC schemes.
- I have served as a PhD thesis examiner and/or part of the defense committee for candidates from University of Adelaide and from University of Alberta, Canada. I currently am serving on the PhD-examination committee of a candidate jointly enrolled at University of Technology, Sydney and the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
- Guest Editor, Memory, Special Issue on “Collective Memory: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches” (with John Sutton)
- Assessing Editor, Journal of Mind and Behavior, 2008-
- Associate Editor, Cognition & Emotion, 2003-2005
- Associate Editor, Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2004-
- Editorial Board, Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 2014-
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 1998-
- Editorial Board, Sleep and Hypnosis, 1997-
- Invited reviewer for approximately 30+ journals including:
Applied Cognitive Psychology
Australian Journal of Psychology
Behaviour Research and Therapy
British Journal of Psychology
Cerebral Cortex
Cognition & Emotion
Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
Cognitive Science
Consciousness and Cognition
Contemporary Hypnosis
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Human Brain Mapping
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
International Journal of Psychology
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition
Journal of Mind-Body Regulation
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Memory
Memory Studies
Neuroscience Letters
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Personality
Psychological Bulletin
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
Social Behavior and Personality
Social Cognition