Gregory John Boyle

Gregory John Boyle (born February 20, 1950) is an Australian academic psychologist and psychometrician whose quantitative research has contributed to the fields of personality theory and assessment, clinical neuropsychological assessment, psychometrics, clinical/health psychology, organisational and educational psychology.^[1][2]

Academic career

Boyle holds a higher doctorate (D.Sc.) from the University of Queensland (2006),^[3] a B.Sc.(Hons), M.Ed. and Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne and separately earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Delaware, USA.^[4][5] His academic career in teaching and research has been at the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland and, subsequently, Bond University on Australia's Gold Coast where he has served as Professor of Psychology for over two decades and Associate Dean for Research for several years.^[6] Currently, he is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Head of School at the Australian Institute of Psychology.^[7] He has given invited lectures on factor analytic methodology and research into personality structure at many universities around the world, including Oxford University, Princeton University and Stanford University.^[7]

Research and grants

Boyle has been awarded research grants from external funding agencies including the Australian Research Council (ARC); the US National Institutes of Health (NIH); the Australian federal government's Department of Education and Science Training (DEST); and the Donner Canadian Foundation (with John J. Furedy). He has also been recipient of a research fellowship from the University of Delaware (United States); as well as recipient of many competitive research grants from the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland. At Bond University, he was recipient of several competitive vice-chancellor's research grants. Boyle has at least 234 peer-reviewed journal articles cited in the PsycINFO, MEDLINE, and PubMED databases, and well over 200,000 downloads of his published works from the Bond University e-publications site.^[8][9]

Military research consultant

Boyle served as a Cadet Under Officer (CUO) in the Australian Cadet Corps during his secondary schooling in Geelong, Victoria (his Certificate of Appointment was signed by the then Minister for the Army - Malcolm Fraser, who later became the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia). In 1987, Boyle was commissioned as a Major in the Australian Army Reserve (his commission was later signed by the 22nd Governor General of Australia, Sir William Deane). Subsequently, Boyle was elevated to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Psychology 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, for ADF personnel suffering from mental health problems - including PTSD following overseas deployment.^[5]

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.^[10] In addition, over a span of more than four decades he has performed as a piper in several other Scottish and Irish pipe bands including the City of Nunawading Pipe Band, the Moorabbin City Pipe Band, the City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band, the Queensland Irish Pipe Band, the St. Andrew's Pipe Band (Brisbane), and the City of Wilmington Pipe Band (Delaware, USA). He served as Pipe Major of the City of Brisbane Pipe Band in the late 1990s. Boyle also has competed in solo piping competitions under the auspices of the Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association (VHPBA), the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association (EUSPBA), and the Queensland Pipe Band Association (QPBA).^[5]

Honours

In 2004, Boyle was elected a fellow of both the Australian Psychological Society,^[11] and the American Psychological Society (now Association for Psychological Science).^[12] In 2005, he was recipient of the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements' Distinguished Reviewer Award.^[13]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Boyle, Gregory J. and Langley, Philip D. (1989) Elementary Statistical Methods: For Students of Psychology, Education and the Social Sciences Sydney, NSW, Australia: Pergamon Press, ISBN 0080344267
• Boyle, Gregory J.; Saklofske, Donald H. (2004) The Psychology of Individual Differences London, UK: SAGE Publishers, ISBN 9780761944096 four volume set. Details.
• Boyle, Gregory J.; Matthews, Gerald; Saklofske, Donald H. (2008) The SAGE Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publishers, ISBN 9781412923644 two volume set. Details.
• Boyle, Gregory J.; Saklofske, Donald H.; Matthews, Gerald (2012) Psychological Assessment London, UK: SAGE Publishers, ISBN 9780857022707 four volume set. Details.
• Boyle, Gregory J.; O'Gorman, John G; Fogarty, Gerard J. (2015) Work and Organisational Psychology, London, UK: SAGE Publishers, ISBN 9781473916715 five volume set. Details.
• Boyle, Gregory J.; Saklofske, Donald H.; Matthews, Gerald (2015). Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Constructs. Amsterdam: Academic Press. ISBN 9780123869159. 

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