Psychology Committees
On this page:
- School of Psychology Management Team (SoPMT)
- School of Psychology Ethics Committee (SoPHEC)
- School of Psychology Research Committee (SoPRC)
- School of Psychology Postgraduate Committee (SoPPGC)
School of Psychology Management Team (SoPMT)
- John McClure
- Bart Ellenbroek (Research)
- Carolyn Wilshire (Teaching Curriculum and Support)
- Colleen Ward (shared position, Postgraduate)
- Karen Salmon (shared position, Postgraduate)
- Maree Hunt (Technical and Physical Resources June 2011)
- Ngaire Lavery (Administration and Finance)
- James Liu (Equity)
- Gina Grimshaw (Staff Representative)
Terms of Reference
The School of Psychology Management Team will help the Head of School formulate policy and develop strategies for implementing policy initiatives. Membership is taken from the School administration cluster model. Directors of each cluster are responsible for seeking and receiving information within each their cluster and provide the information to the Senior Management Team.
School of Psychology Human Ethics Committee (SoPHEC)
- Jason Low (Chair)
- Sue Jackson
- Paul Jose
- Ann Weatherall
- Deirdre Brown
- Brittany Cardwell (Student Rep)
- Gregg Franco (Student Rep)
- Robert Michael (Student Rep)
- Allison Kirkman (VUW Ethics Committee Rep)
- Wendy Ward (Note Taker)
Terms of Reference
The School of Psychology Human Ethics Committee (SoPHEC), whose membership is approved by VUW Human Ethics Committee, operates to review, approve and monitor any research proposal (by staff or student) involving human participants at the school level. SoPHEC is subject to the university’s main Human Ethics Committee guidelines.
School of Psychology Research Committee (SoPRC)
Garth Fletcher (Chair)
Ann Weatherall
John McClure
Susan Schenk
Jebi Jayapalan
Terms of Reference
The research committee will alert the School to University grant deadlines and opportunities, and will process applications and rank them where necessary and provide useful supportive information on the applications for the School Representative on the Faculty of Science Research Committee
School of Psychology Postgraduate Committee (SoPPGC)
- Devon Polaschek (Chair)
- John McDowall
- Colleen Ward
- Ronald Fischer
- Matt Crawford
- Ngaire Lavery (Masters Part 2 and PhD)
- Rebecca Burson (Student Representative)
Terms of Reference
The School of Psychology Postgraduate Committee (SoPPGC) is the link between the School of Psychology's prospective and current graduate research students and their supervisors, and the Faculty of Graduate Research, and Faculty of Science. The committee is responsible for decisions about the admission of prospective Masters and PhD research students into the School of Psychology, and for recommendations regarding progression from provisional to full registration for PhD students. The committee monitors students' progress, and provides relevant informal advice to staff and students. The committee oversees new PhD students' orientation to the School, and contributes to the development of the School's graduate research culture (eg, by facilitating the annual PhD conference). The committee maintains the thesis student database and is responsible for the coordination of 6 monthly PhD reports.