Prof Geoff White
OFFICER OF THE NEW ZEALAND ORDER OF MERIT (ONZM)
Prof Geoff White, of the University of Otago, who is an
experimental psychologist, says the ONZM is a "great honour"
which also reflects positively on what the discipline of
psychology has to offer New Zealand.
Prof White, an Otago graduate who has also been the
university's deputy vice-chancellor, research and enterprise,
for the past five years, does not consider the award "an
individual honour".
The outcome also reflected "the extensive support I've had
from colleagues and students" in the psychology department at
Otago University, and, earlier, at Victoria University of
Wellington, where he taught before joining the Otago staff in
1985, he said.
He later headed the Otago department for 10 years.
Over the years, Prof White has contributed in many ways to
psychology, and its growth, in this country.
He has specialised in memory and discrimination processes and
much of his experimental work has been published in
international journals.
He has also contributed to university teaching, in one of the
university's largest departments, and supervised 20 doctoral
students.
In 2003, students named him as the inaugural Otago University
Students Association supervisor of the year.
He is a former president of the New Zealand Psychological
Society, and also served on the New Zealand Psychologists
Registration Board.
He is also a former editor of the New Zealand Journal of
Psychology and was on the editorial board of Learning and
Behaviour.
He has received distinguished research awards from the New
Zealand Psychological Society and a prestigious award from
the American Psychological Association.
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