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Gregory Boyle


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Elementary Statistical Methods for Students of Psychology, Education and the Social Sciences

Gregory John Boyle, PhD, DSc (born February 20, 1950) is an Australian academic psychologist whose psychometric research has contributed to the fields of personality theory and assessment, clinical neuropsychological assessment, clinical-health psychology, educational psychology, and organizational psychology. Boyle has, for example, suggested that it is time to move on from the static and restricted Big Five personality traits (that account for just over half of the known normal personality trait variance) and related Five Factor Model of personality structure, and to re-orient research efforts into the dynamic nature of personality learning and change across the lifespan. He is editor of several highly influential psychology handbooks.

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Academic career

Boyle holds an earned higher doctorate (D.Sc.) from the University of Queensland (2006), B.Sc. (Hons), M.Ed. and Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne as well as M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Delaware, USA. At Delaware, Boyle worked closely with his College of Education doctoral advisors (Jack J. Pikulski and Sylvia Farnham-Diggory), as well as with Carroll E. Izard from the Department of Psychology. Previously, at the University of Melbourne, Boyle had completed his Hons research in clinical neuropsychology (assessing brain-injured patients in situ at the Austin Hospital on the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery before and after neurosurgery) under the guidance of Kevin W. Walsh ("Father" of Australian Neuropsychology), and his Master's degree in educational psychology under the guidance of Eric Gaudry, and Frank D. Naylor (27th President, Australian Psychological Society). He later completed a separate Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne – his doctoral advisors being K. Brian Start (John Smyth Professor of Education), and Gordon V. Stanley (24th APS President). Julian C. Stanley from Johns Hopkins University also played a key mentorship role in guiding Boyle's early academic career development.

Boyle's academic career has been mainly at the University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, and Bond University on Australia's Gold Coast where he served as Professor of Psychology for over two decades and Associate Dean for Research for several years. While at Bond, he received a Committee for Advancement of University Teaching citation as being "among the top 5% of Australian university teachers". Recently, he was Head of School of Psychology and Counselling at the Australian Institute of Psychology (now defunct). Currently, he is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne's Graduate School of Education (ranked 1st in Australia, top 5 in the world - QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017),In recognition of his sustained contributions to the evidence-based psychological literature, in 2006, Boyle was honored with conferral by the University of Queensland of it's prestigious D.Sc. degree. Boyle has given invited lectures on factor analytic methodology and psychometric research into personality theory and assessment at top-flight institutions all around the world, including for example, at Oxford University, Princeton University and Stanford University.

Boyle’s work is interdisciplinary in its incorporation of law, medicine, and diverse areas of psychological science, and it is virtually unrestricted in audiences, having appeared in prominent peer-reviewed journals (in languages including English, Spanish, French, Swedish) in the USA, Australia and New Zealand, the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, and Latin America. Boyle's significant stature and international visibility in the field of psychological science is also reflected in his several collaborations and co-authored publications with two of the most highly cited psychologists of the 20th century: Hans J. Eysenck (3rd most cited, after Freud and Piaget, respectively) and Raymond B. Cattell (7th most cited, based on the peer-reviewed journal literature).

Research and grants

Boyle's research has benefitted from grants from several extramural funding agencies including the Australian Research Council (ARC); the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) (with Ephrem Fernandez); the Australian Government Department of Education and Science Training (DEST); the Donner Canadian Foundation (with John J. Furedy); the Icelandic Research Council (with E-Ö Arnarson); and the Griffith Health Institute (with David Neumann). He has also been recipient of a research fellowship from the University of Delaware; as well as many competitive research grants from the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland. At Bond University, he was awarded several competitive Vice-Chancellor's Research Excellence grants. Boyle has contributed at least 233 peer-reviewed publications as indexed in the PsycINFO, MEDLINE, and PubMed databases, is co-author of a book on statistical methods, senior editor of a major (824-page) book on psychosocial assessment measures, and senior editor of 15 international handbook volumes. Boyle has served on editorial boards of national and international peer-reviewed psychology journals (e.g., Associate Editor of Australian Journal of Psychology for 15 years).

Military research consultant

Boyle served as a Cadet Under Officer (CUO) in the Australian Cadet Corps during his secondary schooling in Geelong, Victoria (Certificate of Appointment signed by the then Minister for the Army - Malcolm Fraser, who later became 22nd Prime Minister of Australia). In 1987, Boyle was commissioned as a Major in the Australian Army Reserve (commission signed by the 22nd Governor General of Australia, Sir William Deane). Subsequently, Boyle was promoted to rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Psych Corps where he served as a research consultant and expert advisor on the selection of Antarctic expeditioners, selection of military personnel, and selection of personnel for critical occupations, as well as providing psychological support services as a registered psychologist at the military hospital, Gallipoli Barracks (Brisbane) for ADF personnel suffering from mental health problems - incl. PTSD following overseas deployment.

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Boyle performed as a bagpiper with the Rats of Tobruk Memorial Pipe Band from Melbourne, Australia at the 1988 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland. He also has performed as a piper in other Australian pipe bands in Melbourne under the auspices of the Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association (VHPBA), in Delaware, USA (1980-1982) - Eastern United States Pipe Band Association (EUSPBA), and subsequently in Brisbane, Australia - Pipe Bands Queensland (PBQ), respectively.

Children's rights

Boyle has published many articles on the need to uphold children's rights to bodily integrity in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

Honors

In 2004, Boyle was elected a Fellow of both the Australian Psychological Society, and the American Psychological Society (now Association for Psychological Science). In 2005, he was a recipient of the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements' Distinguished Reviewer Award.

References

Gregory John Boyle Wikipedia