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Associate Professor Amanda LeCouteur

Room 510, Hughes Building
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Fax +61 (08) 8303 3770
amanda.lecouteur@adelaide.edu.au
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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.