Gregory John Boyle

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,^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]} clinical neuropsychological assessment,^[8][9][10] clinical-health psychology,^{[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]} educational psychology,^{[18][19][20][21]} and organizational psychology.^[22][23][24] Boyle has, for example, suggested that it is time to move on from the static and restricted Big Five personality traits (accounting for just over half of the known normal personality trait variance)^[25] 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.^[26][27][28]

Academic career

Boyle holds an earned higher doctorate (D.Sc.) from the University of Queensland (2006),^[29] 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.^[30][31] 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 supervision of Kevin W. Walsh ( "Father" of Australian Neuropsychology),^[32] 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 President, Australian Psychological Society). 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 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.^[33] While at Bond, he received a Committee for Advancement of University Teaching citation as being "among the top 5% of Australian university teachers".^[31] Currently, he is an Hon Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne's Graduate School of Education (ranked 1st in Australia for Education, top 5 in the world - QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017),^[34] and until recently, was Head of School at the Australian Institute of Psychology (now defunct).^[35] In recognition of his sustained contributions to the evidence-based psychological literature, in 2006, Boyle was honored with conferral of the University of Queensland's prestigious D.Sc. degree. Boyle has given invited lectures on factor analytic methodology and psychometric research into personality theory and assessment at many universities around the world, including Oxford University, Princeton University and Stanford University.^[35]

Research and grants

Boyle's research has benefitted from grants from several extramural funding agencies including the Australian Research Council (ARC);^[36][37] the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) (with Ephrem Fernandez);^[38] the Australian Government Department of Education and Science Training (DEST);^[39] the Donner Canadian Foundation (with John J. Furedy);^[40] the Icelandic Research Council (with E-Ö Arnarson);^[41] and the Griffith Health Institute (with David Neumann).^[42] He has also been recipient of a research fellowship from the University of Delaware (United States);^[43] as well as many competitive research grants from the University of Melbourne^[44][45] and the University of Queensland.^[46] At Bond University, he was awarded several competitive vice-chancellor's research grants.^[47][48] Boyle has contributed over 200 peer-reviewed publications (including at least 163 journal articles and 34 peer-reviewed book chapters) as indexed in the PsycINFO, MEDLINE, and PubMed databases, is co-author of a book on statistical methods,^[49] senior editor of a major book on psychosocial assessment measures,^[50] 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).^[31]

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 the 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 mental health problems - incl. PTSD following overseas deployment.^[31]

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.^[51][31] 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)^[52], 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).^{[53][54][55][56][57][58]}

Honors

In 2004, Boyle was elected a Fellow of both the Australian Psychological Society,^[59] and the American Psychological Society (now Association for Psychological Science).^[60] In 2005, he was a recipient of the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements' Distinguished Reviewer Award.^[61]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Boyle, Gregory J.; 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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