Professor of Psychology

BA (UNE)
PG Cert.Ed (London)
MA (South Africa)
D.Litt.et Phil (South Africa)
Fellow Australian Psychological Society
Fellow British Psychological Society
Fellow Australian Institute of Management

Richard Hicks brought extensive experience in the management and teaching of applied psychology when he arrived at Bond University in 1998. Beginning with training in mathematics and psychology from the University College of Newcastle, NSW he continued his training as a secondary school teacher in Africa, and in due course received masters and doctoral degrees from the University of South Africa.

His career has taken him from Zambia to Papua New Guinea and back to to Australia, eventually becoming Head of the Faculty of Social Science, Queensland University of Technology. Aside from his time at Bond and QUT, Richard has taught at several universities including The University of Queensland and San Jose State University in California. He has extensive experience in research supervision and is a member of the California Psychology Association and the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology.

Journal Articles

• Richard Hicks (2001) Identifying patients with asthma whose beliefs and attitudes may place them at risk: the development and initial validation of the Asthma Navigator
• Juanita Muller, Brian Delahaye, Sharon Winocur, and Richard Hicks (1996) The psychological impacts of long-term unemployment, sex differences and activity: a case study analysis
• Glen Guy and Richard Hicks (1995) Personality characteristics of human services students and the selection of adult applicants for professional training
• Richard Hicks and Andrew Leicester (1995) Developing teamwork skills inside and outside the classroom
• Richard Hicks and Gregory Southey (1995) Measurement approaches in assessing critical thinking for professional practice and management
• Richard Hicks (1994) Gender differnces in the psychological effects of personal development training in the long-term unemployed

Conference Papers

• Genevieve V. Colling and Richard Hicks (2007) Can work preferences (personality based) differentiate between employees scoring high or low in general mental health?
• Richard Hicks, Daisure Fujiwara, and Mark Bahr (2006) Confirmatory factor analysis of the Occupational Stress Inventory-Revised among Australian teachers
• Belinda Seib and Richard Hicks (2006) Adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism in a sample of 34 unemployed people: potential implications for further study, and for policy and equity