Professor David Siddle

BA PhD Qld., FASSA

Phone: +61 (7) 3365 9044
Fax: +61 (7) 3365 9040
E-mail: d.siddle@research.uq.edu.au
Office: Level 3, Brian Wilson Chancellery
Post: The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia

Personal assistant
Mrs Wendy Freeman
Phone: +61 (7) 3365 9044
Email: w.freeman@research.uq.edu.au

Areas of responsibility
Professor Siddle is responsible for enhancement of the University’s research and research training profile, and development of research collaborations. Areas under his direct management include the six research Institutes, the Research and Research Training Division, the Graduate School and UQ Biological Resources.

Biography
David Siddle became Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) from 2002 following his September 2001 appointment as the University's Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research). Previously he was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Sydney 1997-2001 and Dean, Postgraduate Studies at the University of Queensland 1993-1997.

After completing his PhD, Professor Siddle spent 12 years in the U.K as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London and then as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader at the University of Southampton. He was also Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa for a year. He returned to Australia in 1983 to work at Macquarie University, then moved to the University of Tasmania as Professor of Psychology and Head of Department. In 1991 he became Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Queensland.

Professor Siddle is an experimental psychologist with interests in the areas of orienting, attention and conditioning. The Science and Engineering Council and Medical Research Council in the U.K. and from 1985 to 1998, the Australian Research Council (ARC) have supported his research. He has published two books and more than 100 book chapters and journal articles, and was Editor of Biological Psychology for five years.

He joined the ARC in 1991 and chaired the Council's Social Sciences and Humanities Panel 1993-94. In 1994 he was Research Grants Committee deputy chair and a Planning and Review Committee member. He has also conducted national and international reviews of departments, divisions and programs and taken a leading role in the development of advanced computing in New South Wales.

As chair of the National Committee for Psychology, he initiated a strategic review of the psychology discipline. This was conducted under the auspices of the Academy of Science and the report, Psychological Science in Australia, was presented to the ARC in 1996.

Professor Siddle is a Director of the Australian Synchrotron Company and Australian Synchrotron Holding Company; AHURI Queensland Research Centre Ltd; and CRCMining. He chaired the National Committee of DVCs/PVCs (Research) in 2001 and was convenor of the Go8 DVCs(R) until December 2007.