Professor Deborah Terry

BA ANU, PhD ANU, FASSA, FAPS

Phone:	+61 (7) 334 67754
Fax:	+61 (7) 334 67792
E-mail:	dvc.tl@uq.edu.au
Website:	http://www.uq.edu.au/teaching-learning/
Office:	Level 3, Brian Wilson Chancellery
Post:	The University of Queensland Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia

Executive assistant
Ms Karen Hendrickson

Phone:	+ 61 7 334 67754
Email:	k.hendrickson@uq.edu.au

Areas of responsibility
As Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), Professor Terry is responsible for preserving The University of Queensland’s commitment to providing high-quality university teaching. This involves the co-ordination of the University’s teaching and learning activities, to ensure excellence in policy and practice, including special responsibility for the prospective and current student experience. Functions under her direct management include TEDI (Teaching and Educational Development Institute), Dean of Students and academic policy issues with SASD (Student and Administrative Services).

Biography
Professor Terry received a BA and PhD (1989) from the Australian National University, and joined the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland first as postdoctoral research fellow in 1990 and then as a lecturer in 1991. She was Deputy Head of School from 1997 to 1999, and, after serving as Professor of Social Psychology and Head of School from 2000 to 2005, was appointed Executive Dean, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences in January 2006. In February 2007, Professor Terry accepted an appointment to a half-time role as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), and in January 2008, Professor Terry was appointed as the inaugural Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning).

Her primary research interests are in the areas of attitudes, social influence, persuasion, group processes, and intergroup relations. She also has applied research interests in organisational and health psychology. She has published widely in these areas, and is co-editor of "The theory of reasoned action: Its application to AIDS-preventive behaviour" (1993), "Attitudes, behavior, and social context: The role of group norms and group membership" (1999), and "Social identity processes in organisational contexts" (2001).

Professor Terry is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, the previous chair of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts in the social, behavioural and economic sciences, past President of the Society for Australasian Social Psychology, and she currently holds editorial positions with the British Journal of Psychology and the European Journal of Social Psychology.