Department of Psychology

1948 - a course is given in the Department of Philosophy. Mrs Amy Wheaton, Lecturer in Sociology teaches a course on Social Psychology in that department

1950 - Ullin Place appointed  as Lecturer in Psychology in the Department of Philosophy

1956 - Department of Psychology set up as separate from Department of Philosophy

1957  - Arthur Meadows appointed senior lecturer and head of psychology; Sydney Lovibond, Laurence Brown and David Gibbs appointed as lecturers

1958 - Ronald Penny appointed as Lecturer

1959 - Malcolm Jeeves appointed as Professor of Psychology and arrives in Adelaide in 1960; Arthur Meadows leaves

1961 - Lambros Houssiadas appointed

1962 - Francis Dalziel, Anthony Winefield appointed.  Readership in Psychology establised and Kenneth Provins appointed (also to be Deputy vice-Chancellor, 1975-1980). Dr Peter Glow, Senior Lecturer

1965 - Ian John appointed.  Subsequently Senior Lecturer (1969), Reader (1973) and Professor (1973)

1967 - Douglas Vickers and Donald McNichol appointed

1969 - Alan Traviss Welford becomes Professor of Psychology. John Brebner appointed as lecturer.

1972 - John Kaye appointed as lecturer.  A research fellowship is established on the initiative of Alan Welford in partnership with Bedford Industries in Panorama

1974 - Ted Nettelbeck and Neil Kirby appointed as tenured lecturers. Diploma in Applied Psychology, a new fourth-year program, established.  Inara Proske appointed as first tenured female academic - senior tutor 

1975 - John Michael Innes appointed as lecturer (promoted to Reader in 1981 and later becomes Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) 

1979 - (Chris)topher Cooper elected Chair of Psychology

1988 - Eric Rump elected Chair of Psychology

1991 - A/Professor John /Brebner elected

1992 - Chris Cooper re-elected (until 1999)

1993 - Martha Augoustinos first woman to be appointed to a tenured lectureship

1994 - Jane Mathias, Amanda LeCouteur and Lynn Ward appointed to tenured lectureship

1997 - Transfer from the Faculty of Arts to the Faculty of Health Sciences, now Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences

2000 - John Eaton Taplin appointed Chair of Psychology

2001 - Disability Research Unit established within the Department

2004 - Ted Nettleback succeeds Taplin as head of Department.  Unexpected death of Professor Douglas Vickers, deputy head

2005 - Dr Peter Strelan appointed

2006 - Department becomes School of Psychology.  Dr Dan Navarro and Carolyn Semmler appointed.  Celebration of Golden Jubilee.  Plans for new Graduate Diploma in Psychology

2007 - Professor (Deb)orah Turnball appointed head of School

2010 - Professor John Dunn appointed head of School

2013 -- Professor Anna Chur‑Hansen appoint head of School

Professors of Psychology

• Professor Malcolm Alexander Jeeves, MA, PhD (Camb), 1959-1969
• Professor Alan Traviss Welford, ScD (Camb), MA (Prin), FASSA, 1968-1979 (Emeritus Professor 1979)
• Professor Kenneth Alfred Provins, MA (Oxford), PhD (R'dg), 1962-1983 (Emeritus Professor 1993)
• Professor Peter Helmut Glow, BA (Melb), PhD (Lond), FASSA, 1974-1992 (Emeritus Professor 1993)
• Professor Ian David John, BA, MA (Melb), PhD, 1973-1996
• Professor John Eaton Taplin BSc (Hons), PhD (Adel), FAPS, 2000-2004 (Emeritus Professor 2012)
• Professor Douglas Vickers MA (Hons) (Edin), BA (Hons), PhD, ScD (Camb), 2003-2004
• Professor Ted Nettelbeck BA (Hons), PhD (Adel), 2002-2014 (Emeritus Professor 2014)
• Professor Philip Mohr, BA (Hons), PhD (Adel), 2013-2016
• Professor Helen Winefield, BA, PhD (Adel), FAPS, 2006-2017 (Emeritus Professor 2017)