Board of Directors

A Board of Directors governs the APS. The Board’s responsibilities to members are outlined in the Society's Constitution. Find out about the Board

Code of Conduct for the Board of Directors

Groups

A large number of members of the Society participate on Committees, Advisory, Reference and Conference Organising Groups. Members bring to these groups a range of relevant skills and represent a balance of geographic regions, specialist knowledge and employment contexts, ensuring a diverse range of opinions are considered in policy making.

Board Committees

Ethics

  • Assoc Prof Bill Warren (C)
    Ms Sharon Bent
    Dr Deirdre Drake
    Dr Elaine Hart
    Assoc Prof Ann Knowles
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Mr Mick Symons

Finance and Investment Committee  

  • Dr Kate Moore (C)
    Prof Simon Crowe
    Mr Keith Irvine
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Prof Bob Montgomery
    Mr Mike Shaw
    Mr Barry Whitmore

Governance

  • Prof Bob Montgomery (C)
    Mr Ted Campbell
    Ms Sue Carter
    Dr Elizabeth Celi
    Prof Simon Crowe
    Ms Jeanette Jifkins
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Mr Barry Whitmore    

Risk Management, Audit and Compliance Committee

  • Prof Lyn Littlefield (C)
    Ms Jeanette Jifkins
    Prof Bob Montgomery
    Dr Bob Rich
    Dr Robyn Vines
    Mr Barry Whitmore

Board Advisory Groups 

The Board is supported by five Advisory Groups, each with a particular focus in key strategic areas. The Advisory Groups are comprised of members of the Society with expert knowledge in the particular strategic area covered by the Group, together with two Board Directors. Members of Advisory Groups are appointed by the Board for a one-year term following a call for expressions of interest.

The Advisory Groups ensure that the Board has access to relevant expertise and input from the Society’s membership. The Advisory Groups to the Board cover the following strategic areas:

Membership Recruitment and Retention

  • Assoc Prof Erica Frydenberg (C)
    Dr Martin Boult
    Dr Nicola Burton
    Dr Sandy Gordon
    Ms Elaine Hosie
    Mrs Agnes Levine
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Mr Harry Petropoulos
    Dr Bob Rich
    Prof Trang Thomas

Professional Development

  • Dr Erica Frydenberg (C)
    Ms Anne Lipzker (C)
    Ms Michele Colman
    Ms Michele Colman
    Dr Tim Connell
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Mrs Wendy McDonald
    Dr Monica O’Kelly
    Ms Oriana Tokatlidis
    Ms Daiva Verbyla
    Ms Robyn Vines
    Assoc Prof Sephen Woods  

Professional Practice  

  • Ms Anne Lipzker (C)
    Dr Penny Brabin
    Mr Michael Burge
    Dr Elizabeth Celi
    Dr Simon Crisp
    Ms Vidula Garde
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Ms Ronita Neal
    Dr Kathryn Nicholson Perry
    Mr David Stokes
    Ms Ann Thornton
    Miss Janette Warwick
    Dr Ronnie Zuessman

Public Interest

  • Dr Robyn Vines (C)
    Dr Eugene Aidman
    Dr Susan Ballinger
    Ms Robyn Bradbury
    Dr Susie Burke
    Dr Grace Couchman
    Assoc Prof Pat Dudgeon
    Ms Heather Gridley
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Prof Bob Montgomery
    Assoc Prof Joe Reser
    Professor Debra Rickwood
    Dr Louise Roufeil
    Assoc Prof Meg Smith

Regional Rural and Remote  

  • Dr Robyn Vines (C)
    Ms Robyn Bradbury
    Mr Simon Canny
    Dr Tim Carey
    Mrs Judith Gullifer
    Ms Kerrie Kelly
    Ms Anne Lipzker
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Ms Marguerite Lumsden
    Mr Darryl Maybery
    Dr Louise Roufeil
    Mr David Stokes
    Dr Monica Thielking  
    Prof Don Thomson
    Ms Cindy Wall
    Mr Glenn Williams

Science, Academia and Research

  • Prof Simon Crowe (C)
    Prof David Badcock
    Dr Terry Bowles
    Assoc Prof Jenny Bowman
    Assoc Prof Jacquelyn Cranney
    Prof Patrick Heaven
    Dr Maria Kangas
    Prof David Kavanagh
    Prof Ottmar Lipp
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Prof Peter Lovibond
    Prof Kate Moore
    Dr Iain Montgomery
    Assoc Prof Nancy Pachana
    Dr Janette Perz
    Assoc Prof Graham Tyson
    Dr Nicholas Voudouris

 

Reference Groups

Reference Groups provide expert information and advice on matters affecting members of the Society working in the four workplace settings noted below, as well as acting as a conduit for communication.

Disaster Preparedness and Response

  • Assoc Prof Joe Reser (C)
    Prof Richard Bryant
    Dr Susie Burke
    Ms Bev Ernst
    Dr Rob Gordon
    Ms Kerrie Kelly
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Prof Bob Montgomery
    Dr Doug Paton
    Prof Kevin Ronan

Environmental Threats and Climate Change

  • Dr Susie Burke (C)
    Dr Kelly Fielding
    Dr Rob Hall
    Dr Tim Kurz
    Prof Margot Prior
    Assoc Prof Joe Reser
    Prof Debra Rickwood
    Prof Helen Ross
    Ms Karen Spehr

National Psychology Education and Training

  • Prof Lyn Littlefield (C)
    Prof David Badcock
    Assoc Prof Jacquelyn Cranney
    Prof Simon Crowe
    Ms Kaye Francom
    Em Prof Gina Geffen
    Prof Patrick Heaven
    Prof Ed Helmes
    Ms Judy Hyde
    Prof David Kavanagh
    Prof Mike Kyrios
    Prof Peter Lovibond
    Prof Paul Martin
    Dr Iain Montgomery
    Prof Pip Pattison
    Prof Clare Pollock
    Prof Trang Thomas
    Dr Nicholas Voudouris

Private Practice

  • Ms Bev Ernst (C)
    Mrs Christina Anderson
    Dr John Brown
    Dr Leonie Coxon
    Mr Joel Curtis
    Mr Ted Graham
    Ms Nesli Karadeniz
    Ms Gaynor Perry
    Dr Bruce Stevens
    Mr David Stokes
    Ms Tracey Wardill
    Dr Karen Weiss

Psychologists in Schools

  • Dr Monica Thielking (C)
    Mr Bill Campos
    Mr Gregg Chapman
    Dr Margaret Donnelly
    Mr Allan Dowsett
    Mrs Sue Edwards
    Ms Tina Fersterer
    Mr Chris Gostelow
    Mr Mark Lewis
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Mr Alan Plumb
    Mr Ray Reynolds
    Ms Ruth Still
    Mr David Stokes
    Mr Darren Stops
    Ms Sophie Takmaki
    Ms Susan Whitelaw

Public Sector and Non-Government Organisation

  • Dr Monica Thielking (C)
    Dr Tim Connell
    Dr Maryanne Davis
    Ms Lynda Katona
    Ms Ros McIntosh
    Mrs Lisa McLean
    Ms Michelle Martin
    Mr Glen Menezes
    Mr Hamish Millard
    Mr Doug Scott
    Mr David Stokes

 

Reference Groups, along with Advisory Groups to the Board, member forums and committees of the Board all play a key role in the governance of the Society by providing expert advice from members of the Society and others, and by being an important element of the Society's ongoing communication with its membership.  

Conference Organising Groups

APS Annual Conference

Scientific Program 2009

  • Prof Kate Moore (C)
    Ms Denise Dickson
    Dr Peter Forster
    Prof Ottmar Lipp
    Prof Anthony Love
    Assoc Prof David Mellor
    Dr Mary Morris
    Prof Jeff Summers
    Dr Nicholas Voudouris

International Congress of Applied Psychology 2010

Conference Organising Comittee

  • Prof Paul Martin (Congress Chair)
    Prof Mike Kyrios (Scientific Program Chair)
    Prof Lyn Littlefield (Secretary General)
    Ms Amanda Gordon
    Assoc Prof Mike Knowles
    Prof Kate Moore
    Prof Bob Montgomery
    Prof James Ogloff
    Prof Trang Thomas
    Dr Nicholas Voudouris

Scientific Program Committee

  • Prof Mike Kyrios (Scientific Program Chair)
    Dr Terry Bowles
    Dr Marie Caltabiano
    Ms Kerrie Clarke
    Dr Michel Daffern
    Dr Geoff Denham
    Assoc Prof Ian Glendon
    Ms Amanda Gordon
    Ms Heather Gridley
    Mr Tim Hannan
    Prof Ed Helmes
    Ms Daiva Verbyla
    Ms Kathryn von Treuer
    Dr Nicholas Voudouris

Journal Editors

  • The Australian Community Psychologist: Dr Lauren Breen

  • The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist: Dr Terry Bowles

  • Australian Journal of Counselling Psychology: Dr Geoffrey Denham

  • Australian Journal of Psychology: Prof Patrick Heaven

  • Australian Psychologist: Assoc Prof Nancy Pachana

  • The Clinical Psychologist: Dr Tracey Wade  

Committees and Working Groups

Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA) Steering Committee

  • Assoc Prof Pat Dudgeon (C)
    Mrs Yolonda Adams
    Prof Elizabeth Cameron-Traub
    Mrs Yvonne Clark
    Mr Graham Gee
    Dr Christine Gillies
    Mrs Amanda Hart
    Assoc Prof Dennis McDermott

AIPA–APS Working Group

  • Ms Anne Lipzker (C)
    Prof Elizabeth Cameron-Traub
    Assoc Prof Pat Dudgeon
    Ms Amanda Gordon
    Ms Heather Gridley
    Prof Bob Montgomery
    Mr Barry Whitmore

Constituent Units Review

  • Ms Sue Carter (C)
    Prof Jim Bright
    Mr Ted Campbell
    Assoc Prof Roger Cook
    Ms Denise Dickson
    Prof Gerry Fogarty
    Prof Mike Kyrios
    Mrs Agnes Levine
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Assoc Prof Jacques Metzer
    Prof Grace Pretty
    Dr Damien Riggs
    Dr Louise Roufeil
    Dr Bruce Stevens
    Mr Barry Whitmore

Ethical Guidelines

  • Assoc Prof Marie Joyce (C)
    Dr Elizabeth Allworth
    Assoc Prof Jane Goodman-
    Delahunty
    Ms Heather Gridley
    Mr Graeme Kane
    Assoc Prof Ann Knowles
    Mr Mick Symons
    Prof Don Thomson
    Dr Dianne Vella-Brodrick
    Assoc Prof Bill Warren

Fellows

  • Assoc Prof Erica Frydenberg (C)
    Dr Sandy Gordon
    Mrs Rosemary Laver
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Prof Marita McCabe
    Dr Fred Orr

Periodicals

  • Prof Simon Crowe (C)
    Dr Terry Bowles
    Dr Lauren Breen
    Dr Geoffrey Denham
    Prof Patrick Heaven
    Prof Justin Kenardy
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Assoc Prof Nancy Pachana
    Dr Nicholas Voudouris

Program Development and Accreditation

  • Dr Iain Montgomery (C)
    Prof Vicki Anderson
    Prof Don Byrne
    Assoc Prof Roger Cook
    Assoc Prof Jacquelyn Cranney
    Assoc Prof Janet Fletcher
    Prof Alison Garton
    Assoc Prof Craig Gonsalvez
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Assoc Prof Jacques Metzer
    Prof Kate Moore
    Dr Shirley Morrissey
    Prof Pip Pattison
    Prof Grace Pretty
    Assoc Prof Clive Skilbeck
    Assoc Prof Graham Tyson
    Dr Nicholas Voudouris

APS representation on Boards

Australian Health Professions Association

  • Prof Bob Montgomery –
    Vice-President
    Prof Lyn Littlefield – Executive Officer; Chair of Management Group

Australian Psychology Accreditation Council

  • Prof Trevor Waring – Chair
    Prof Simon Crowe
    Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Prof Trang Thomas
    Dr Iain Montgomery (observer)

Mental Health Professionals Network

  • Prof Lyn Littlefield
    Prof Kate Moore

 

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Constitution and Generic Rules for Branches, Colleges and Interest Groups

Changes to the APS Constitution and Generic Rules were approved by the Membership at the APS AGM on 2 October 2009 and the General Meeting of Members held on 20 May 2010.  

or download the separate sections:

Member Groups Code of Conduct

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