Associate Professor Amanda LeCouteur
Room 510, Hughes Building |
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Program Coordinator Graduate Diploma
Program Coordinator Summer School in Introductory Psychology
Area of research
Discursive Psychology, Conversation Analysis, Gender, Health Psychology, Elite Athletes & Performance
Senior Appointments and Memberships
Chief Assessor Psychology, SSABSA 2004.
Discourse and Social Psychology (DASP) Research Unit, University of Adelaide: Co-Director/Co-Founder
Social & Organisational Psychology Research Unit (SORU), University of Adelaide
Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men’s Health
International Society of Sport Psychology
Consultant, Port Adelaide Football Club (2004-9), Port Adelaide Magpies Football Club (2008)
Awards
Carrick Institute Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2006):
For excellence in teaching and for institutional leadership in promoting student-centered learning in the discipline of Psychology
Australian Psychological Society Distinguished Contribution to Education Award (2006)
Faculty of Health Sciences Executive Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2006)
Stephen Cole the Elder Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2001
Psychology Research Interests
Health-service use - Investigating how to improve the quality of interaction between health-service providers and clients in face-to-face consultations (e.g., medical, psychological and genetics counselling contexts) and health-care helpline interactions.
Learning & teaching - A current multi-institutional project focuses on building leadership for quality learning in a variety of clinical health-care teams.
Elite sport & high performance achievement - work has included projects with the Australian Institute of Sport, AFL and SANFL Clubs in areas of psychological skills training, leadership, recruitment and learning.
Recent Key Publications
LeCouteur, A, & Oxlad, M. (in press, 2009). Membership categorization, morality and the management of accountability in descriptions of domestic violence. Feminism & Psychology.
Hodgetts, K. & LeCouteur, A. (in press, 2009). Constructing disadvantage: Public accounts of boys’ under-achievement in education. Feminism & Psychology.
Augoustinos, M., Russin, A., & LeCouteur, A. (2009). Representations of the Stem-Cell Cloning Fraud. Public Understanding of Science,18: 687-703.
LeCouteur, A., Augoustinos, M., Crabb, S., Purcell. M., & Ekberg, S. (2008). Women and Research: Maximising the Research Output of Women at the University of Adelaide.
Simmons, K., & LeCouteur, A. (2008). Modern racism in the media: Constructions of the ‘possibility of change’ in accounts of two Australian riots. Discourse & Society: 19, 667-687.
