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Harsha N. Perera, Ph.D.
Department of Educational Psychology
and Higher Education
College of Education
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 S. Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154-3003
Phone: (702) 895-1110
E-mail: [email protected]
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, Department of Educational
Psychology and Higher Education, College of Education, University of Nevada, Las
Vegas (August 2016-present).
Lecturer (SPF03 Strategic Appointment, Level B, Step 4; equiv. assistant professor),
Educational Psychology and Measurement, University of New South Wales (January
2016 – August 2016)
Adjunct Faculty, School of Linguistics, Adult, and Specialist Education, University
of Southern Queensland (January 2016 – Present)
Lecturer (Level B, Step 1, equiv. assistant professor), Educational Psychology and
Measurement, University of Southern Queensland (November 2014 – December
2015). Tenured.
Associate Lecturer (Level A, Step 6, equiv. advanced instructor), Educational
Psychology and Measurement, University of Southern Queensland (June 2012 –
October 2014)
Sessional academic, Quantitative Methods, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW
(July 2011 – June 2012)
EDUCATION
Ph.D (Educational Psychology and Measurement)., University of Technology Sydney
(2015). Specialization: Educational Psychology and Quantitative Methods
B. Ed (Honours Class I)., University of Sydney (2009). Specialization: Educational
Psychology and Secondary Curriculum
HONORS and AWARDS
2016 UNLV TTDGRA Award for project Critical questions model of argument
(CQMA) (w/ Principal investigator E. Michael Nussbaum)
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2016 Recognized Reviewer Status, Journal of Vocational Behavior
2016 College of Education, University of Las Vegas Nevada, Dean’s Policy Fellow
2016 Nominee, UNSW Dean’s Research Award for achievements by an early career
researcher
2016 American Educational Research Association Division E Award for most
outstanding doctoral dissertation in human development/counselling
2016 UTS Chancellor’s List Award for outstanding doctoral research
2016 UNSW SPF03 Strategic Appointment to School of Education, University of
New South Wales (UNSW). The SPF03 is a strategic priority fund designed to recruit
the most promising talent across the world to the UNSW.
2015 Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Ray Debus
Award for best doctoral dissertation in education in Australia.
2015 UTS, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences nominee for the Chancellor’s Award
for best PhD thesis in 2015 graduating cohorts across all faculties.
2015 USQ Publication Excellence Award - $500.00 AUD awarded on account of
meritorious research productivity
2011 Australian Postgraduate Award (APA; 2011) – 23,500.00 p/a AUD. APA
scholarships are awarded by the Australian Government, Department of Innovation,
Industry, Science and Research to research students of exceptional research potential
undertaking a Higher Degree by Research in Australia.
First Class Honors (2009) awarded in the Bachelor of Education program, University
of Sydney.
Walter Reid Memorial Prize (2008). Awarded annually, without application, to
students at the University of Sydney on the basis of exceptional academic
performance.
Inductee, International Honor Society (2006).
GRANT ACTIVITY
Co-Investigator (w/ Principal investigator Peter McIlveen), Development of the
Australian Graduate Employability Scale (A-Grades). Graduate Career Australia
research grant program (2016) ($250,974.00 AUD). Funded.
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Co-Investigator (w/ Principal Investigator Sharon Tettegah), Coordinating curricula
and user preferences to maximize the participation of women and students of color in
Engineering. National Science Foundation (2016) ($298,190.00 USD), Under
review.
Principal Investigator, UNSW Research Grant Scheme (2016), Modeling
Educational and Career Interests, Choices, Engagement, and Achievement in STEM
($5997.00 AUD). Funded.
Co-Investigator, Potter Foundation (2015). Positive Psychology Interventions in
Regional, Rural, and Remote Queensland Schools ($54,500.00 AUD). Unsuccessful
Co-Principal Investigator, USQ Marketing and Student Attraction (2015) – Measuring career interests in university students ($4,500.00). Funded
Co-Investigator, National Centre for Vocational Education and Research. (2015).
Pathways to Completion and Retention: Individual and Contextual Factors
($139,286.00 AUD). Unsuccessful
Co-Principal Investigator, Education Services Australia (2014) Development of a
short-form of the Career Interest Test ($15,000.00). Funded
Co-Investigator, Grains Development Research Corporation (2013). Agricultural
career pathways among Secondary School Students ($349,200.00 AUD).
Unsuccessful.
Principal investigator. USQ Research Grant Scheme (2013; RGS-130145)
Investigating the mediational mechanisms underlying the influence of affective
personality on academic performance during a major life transition ($4,644.30).
Funded
2012 UTS Research Students’ Travel Grant – $800.00 AUD awarded to support the
conduct and presentation of research
2011 Australian Postgraduate Award (APA; 2011) – 23,500.00 p/a AUD (3 years).
APA scholarships are awarded by the Australian Government, Department of
Innovation, Industry, Science and Research to students of exceptional research
potential undertaking a Higher Degree by Research in Australia.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, American Educational Research Association (Division D)
Member, American Educational Research Association (Division E)
Member (Invited), Australian Association for Research in Education
Member (Invited), Society for Personality Assessment
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PUBLICATIONS AND ARTICLES IN PRESS, ACCEPTED, OR UNDER
REVIEW
Athanasou, J. A., & Perera, H. N. (under review). International handbook of career
guidance (2nd ed). Springer Netherlands
*Bartlett, C., Perera, H. N., & McIlveen, P. (2015). A short-form of the Career Interest
Test: 21-CIT. Journal of Career Assessment (online first) doi:
10.1177/1069072715580579
Fogarty, G. J., Murphy, P. J., & Perera, H. N. (2016). Safety culture in defense
explosive ordnance: Survey development and model testing. Safety
Science, 93, 62-69. doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2016.11.010.
Fogarty, G. J., & Perera, H. N. (2016). Resilience: Distinct construct or conglomerate
of existing traits? Industrial and Organization Psychology, 9, 422-429.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/iop.2016.33
Fogarty, G. J., Perera, H. N., Furst, A., & Thomas, P. (2016). Evaluating measures of
optimism and sport confidence. Measurement in Physical Education and
Exercise Science (online first). doi: 10.1080/1091367X.2015.1111220
McIlveen, P., & Perera, H. N. (2015). Career optimism mediates the effect of
personality on teachers’ career engagement. Journal of Career
Assessment (online first). doi: 10.1177/1069072715616059
McIlveen, P., & Perera, H. N. (2016). Career practitioners should advocate for maths
in STEM education: Without M, there is no S, T, and E. Australian
Career Practitioner, Autumn 2016, 13-15.
McIlveen, P., Perera, H. N., Hoare, P. N., & *McLennan, B. (2016). The validity of
CAAS scores in divergent social occupations. Journal of Career
Assessment (online first). doi: 10.1177/1069072716679922
*McLennan, B., McIlveen, P., & Perera, H. N., (2016). Pre-service teachers’ self-
efficacy mediates the relationship between career adaptability and career
optimism. Teaching and Teacher Education (online first). doi:
10.1016/j.tate.2016.12.022
*Luke, J., McIlveen, P., & Perera, H. N. (2016). A thematic analysis of career
adaptability in retirees who return to work. Frontiers in Psychology
(online first). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00193
Perera, H. N. (2013). A novel approach to estimating and testing specific mediation
effects in educational research: Explication and application of Macho
and Ledermann’s (2011) Phantom Model approach. International
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Journal of Quantitative Research in Education, 1, 39-60. doi:
10.1504/IJQRE.2013.055640
Perera, H. N. (2015a). The internal structure of responses to the Trait Emotional
Intelligence Questionnaire Short-Form: An exploratory structural
equation modeling approach. Journal of Personality Assessment. doi:
10.1080/00223891.2015.1014042
Perera, H. N. (2015b). Construct validity of scores from the Social Provisions Scale:
A bifactor exploratory structural equation modeling approach.
Assessment, 1-14. doi: 10.1177/1073191115589344.
Perera, H. N. (2016). The role of trait emotional intelligence in academic
performance: Theoretical overview and empirical review. The Journal
of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 150, 229-251. doi:
10.1080/00223980.2015.1079161 (Invited submission)
Perera, H. N., & Athanasou, J. A. (2016). Construct validity of the EUROHIS-QOL
for rehabilitation assessment. Australian Journal of Rehabilitation
Counselling, 22, 57-75. doi: 10.1017/jrc.2016.12 (invited submission)
Perera, H. N., & DiGiacomo, M. (2013). The relationship of trait EI with academic
performance: A meta-analytic review. Learning and Individual
Differences, 28, 20-33. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2013.08.002
Perera, H. N., & DiGiacomo, M. (2015). The role of trait emotional intelligence in
academic performance during the university transition: An integrative
model of mediation via social support, coping and adjustment.
Personality and Individual Differences, 83, 208-213. doi:
10.1016/j.paid.2015.04.001
Perera, H. N., & Ganguly, R. (2016). Construct validity of scores from the Connor-
Davison Resilience Scale in a sample of students with disabilities.
Assessment (online first). doi: doi:10.1177/1073191116646444
Perera, H, N., Izadikhah, Z., O’Connor, P., & McIlveen, P. (2016). Resolving
dimensionality problems with WHOQOL-BREF responses. Assessment
(online first). doi: 10.1177/1073191116678925
Perera, H. N., & McIlveen, P. (2014). The role of optimism and engagement coping in
college adaptation: A Career Construction model. Journal of Vocational
Behavior, 84, 395-404. doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2014.03.002
Perera, H. N., & McIlveen, P. (2016). Profiles of career adaptivity and their relations
with adaptability, adapting, and adaptation. Journal of Vocational
Behavior (online first). doi: 10.1016/j.jvb.2016.10.001
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Perera, H. N., McIlveen, P., Burton, L. J., & Corser, D. M. (2015). Beyond
congruence measures for the evaluation of personality factor structure
replicability: An exploratory structural equation modeling approach.
Personality and Individual Differences, 84, 23-29. doi:
10.1016/j.paid.2015.01.004
Perera, H. N., McIlveen, P., & Oliver, M. E. (2015). The mediating role of coping and
adjustment in the relationship between personality and achievement.
British Journal of Educational Psychology, 85, 440-457. doi:
10.1111/bjep
*Denotes graduate student
SUMMARY OF PUBLICATION OUTCOMES
Publication Quantity
Total1 21
Total SSCI Articles 19 1 = only peer-reviewed journal articles. Note. Years 2013 and 2014 are years of doctoral candidacy. SSCI =
Social Sciences Citation Index.
Publication Quality1
SJR Q12 SJR Q2 SJR Q3 SJR Q4
SJR Education 5 1 0 0
SJR Psychology 10 0 0 0
SJR Other 1 1 1 0
Subtotal 16 2 1 0 1 = only SSCI peer-reviewed journal articles are included; 2 = SJR quartile is the quartile ranking for the year in
which the article was published. Where the article was published online first, the quartile for the year of online
publication is reflected in these data. Note. “SJR Other” articles are those for which I served as only a
methodologist. Quartiles ranges from 1 to 4 with 1 representing the highest tier of publication quality.
GOVERNMENT AND OTHER REPORTS
Bernacki, M. L., & Perera, H. N. (accepted). Encouraging Young Nevadans to Choose
and Complete STEM Degrees:. Las Vegas, Nevada: Dean's Policy Fellows
Initiative: College of Education, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Accepted:
2017.
McIlveen, P., & Perera, H. N. (2014). Report of psychometric characteristics of the
CIT-21. Report submitted to Education Services Australia. University of
Southern Queensland.
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Perera, H. N., & McIlveen, P. (2015). Report on the psychometric properties of the
USQ Career Explorer. Report prepared and submitted to USQ Marketing and
Attraction. University of Southern Queensland.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS
*Granziera, H., & Perera, H. N. (2016). Teacher work satisfaction: A social cognitive
career theory perspective. Paper presented at the Australian Association
for Research in Education conference. Melbourne, Australia.
McIlveen, P., *McLennan, B., Noble, K., Perera, H. N., & Wunsch, G. (2014). The
influence of career optimism on satisfaction and engagement in different
domains of learning and work. Paper presented at the International
Congress of Applied Psychology. Paris, France.
McIlveen, P., *McDonald, N., *McLennan, B., *Oliver, M. E., & Perera, H. N.
(2016). The SCCT in Australia: Empirical models for di(e)sperate
industries. Paper presented at the 2016 Biennial Conference of the
Society for Vocational Psychology, 16-17 May, Florida State
University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
McIlveen, P., *McLennan., B., & Perera, H. N. (2015). Measuring career adaptability
in school teachers. Paper presented at the Career Development
Association of Australia national conference. Perth, Australia.
McIlveen, P., Perera, H. N., & Hendren, S. (2016; May). Predictors of career
engagement in STEM degrees. Paper presented at the 2016 Career
Development Association of Australia Conference. Melbourne, VIC,
Australia.
McIlveen, P., Wunsch, G., *McDonald, N., Horvath, Z., Beccaria, G….Perera, H.
(2014). Tilling the field: A vocational psychology of agriculture. Paper
presented at the Society for Vocational Education 11th Biennial
Conference. Coimbra, Portugal.
Perera, H. N. (2012). The relationship of trait EI with academic performance: A meta-
analytic review. Paper presented at the AARE-APERA 2012
Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Perera, H. N. (2013). The role of dispositional optimism in college adaptation: Testing
a model of direct and indirect relations. Paper presented at the 12th
Australian Conference for Personality and Individual Differences.
Brisbane, Australia.
Perera, H. N. (2014) Harnessing the power and flexibility of exploratory structural
equation modeling for the analysis of multidimensional personality item
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response data. Paper presented at the 2014 Australian Conference for
Personality and Individual Differences. Newcastle, Australia
Perera, H. N. (2014). The role of trait emotional intelligence in achievement during a
stressful educational transition: A multistage model of mediation via
social support, coping and adaptation. Paper accepted for presentation at
the BERA Annual Conference 2014. London, United Kingdom.
Perera, H. N., & McIlveen, P. (2016; May). The RIASEC interests: Structure, gender
invariance, and Big-Five and degree-choice relations. Paper presented at
the 2016 Society for Vocational Psychology Conference. Florida State
University. Tallahassee, FL, USA.
*Denotes graduate student
RESEARCH SUPERVISION
Advisory Committee Member, Rachel Part, Doctor of Philosophy (2016 – present).
University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Principal Supervisor, Helena Granziera, Master of Education (2016), University of
New South Wales. A social cognitive model of teacher job satisfaction (completed
with high distinction).
Principal Supervisor, Cristy Bartlett, Master of Learning and Development via
research pathway (2014), A short-form of the Career Interest Test (completed with
high distinction)
Principal Supervisor, Sara Grigg. Master of Education (2016). Ability groupings in
secondary school mathematics: Effects on math self-efficacy, interest, and
engagement (completed with high distinction).
Co-Supervisor, Cristy Bartlett, Doctor of Philosophy (July 2014 – present), A
social-cognitive model of teacher self-beliefs and well-being.
Co-Supervisor, David Bruce, Doctor of Education (January 2015 – Present),
Personality and self-processes in academic dishonesty.
Co-Supervisor, Jennifer Luke. Doctor of Philosophy (July 2015 – Present),
Personality and self-belief processes involved in retirees returning to work.
Co-Supervisor, Nicole McDonald. Doctor of Philosophy (May 2015 – Present),
Investigating cotton farm workers’ experiences of job satisfaction.
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Co-Supervisor, Mark E. Oliver, Doctor of Philosophy (July 2015 – present),
Teaching students with special needs in regular classrooms: The role of personality
and teacher efficacy.
INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINARS
Perera, H. N. (2016, April). Career learning and adaptive capacity in education and
work. UNSW Inaugural Public lecture. Sydney, NSW.
Perera, H. N. (2015, December). Increasing research productivity and impact: An
early-career researcher perspective. Invited seminar delivered at the USQ
School of Linguistics, Adult, and Specialist Education Professional
Development Day. Springfield, QLD.
Perera, H. N. (2015, November). The substantive-methodological synergy in
educational research. Expert lecture delivered at the University of Colombo.
Colombo, Sri Lanka.
McIlveen, P., & Perera, H. N. (2015, August). Beyond cognitive ability: A program of
research on dispositional traits and characteristic adaptations. Professional
development session delivered at Toowoomba Grammar School. Toowoomba,
QLD,
Perera, H. N. (2015, July). Reinvigorating interest in the role of personality in
education. Expert lecture delivered at the 2015 USQ Student Advisors Day.
Ipwisch, QLD.
Perera, H. N. (2015, June). Reinvigorating interest in the role of personality in
education. Expert lecture delivered at the 2015 USQ Student Advisors Day.
Toowoomba, QLD.
Perera, H. N. (2013, February). The substantive-methodological synergy in the social
sciences. Expert lecture delivered at the University of Southern Queensland.
Perera, H. N. (2011, September). Quantitative methods in the social sciences. Expert
lecture delivered at the University of Technology, Sydney.
SOFTWARE & CODE
Perera, H. N. (2013). Amos and EQS command syntax for the estimation and testing
of specific indirect effects using bootstrapping and the delta Method in recursive
covariance structure models. Available from the author by request via email.
METHODOLOGICAL INTERESTS AND PROFICIENCY
Multiple regression analysis
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Logistic regression analysis
Scale reliability estimation
Exploratory factor analysis
Confirmatory factor analysis
Structural equation modeling
Exploratory structural equation modeling
Multi-level modeling
Multi-level structural equation modeling
Latent growth modeling
Mixture modelling (i.e., latent class, latent profile, and factor mixture modelling)
Monte Carlo simulation methods
Missing-data management
Management and analysis of non-normal data
Statistical mediation and moderation
Categorical data modeling in a covariance structure framework
Meta-Analysis (Hedges-Olkin and Hunter-Schmidt approaches)
Item response theory analysis
STATISTICAL SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY
SPSS, v. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
EQS 6.1, 6.2
Mplus 7.31 (preferred software)
LISREL 9.1/Prelis (both SIMPLIS and Matrix languages)
AMOS
R (especially Lavaan package)
Comprehensive Meta-Analysis
Bi-Log, Multi-Log
IRT-Pro.
PROFESSIONAL and DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Program Development Advisor, Doctor of Philosophy: Learning Sciences program
development (provided guidance on the statistics core in the novel program)
Research Team Member, Clark County School District Peer Assistance and Review
(PAR) Program Study (October 2016 - present)
PhD Review Committee, Department of Educational Psychology and Higher
Education, University of Nevada Las Vegas (September 2016 – present)
Theme leader (Quantitative Methods and Modeling), Australian Collaboratory for
Career, Employability, and Learning for Living (July 2013 – present).
Committee Member, USQ Master of Learning and Teaching development committee
(2013-2014)
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Editorial Board, Australian Journal of Career Development (2013 – present)
Editorial Board (Review Editor), Frontiers in Psychology (Work and organizational
psychology section) (2016 – present).
Editorial Board, Journal of Vocational Behavior (2016-present)
Reviewer, Assessment, Australian Journal of Psychology, Australian Psychologist,
Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling, Cognition and Instruction,
Psychological Reports, European Journal of Psychology of Education, Leading and
Managing, Oxford University Press, Palgrave MacMillan, Personality and Individual
Differences, Learning and Individual Differences, Education and Training, Frontiers
in Psychology (Organizational), Frontiers in Psychology (Educational).
Committee member, UNSW School of Education Research Committee (2016-
present)
Advisor, UNSW School of Education Assessment and Evaluation Group (2016 –
present)
Member (methodological expert), UNSW Teacher Effectiveness working party
(2016 – present).
School of Linguistics, Adult, and Specialist Education, USQ, School Statistical
consultant. Consultancy has centred on the provision of guidance and data analytic
support in the areas of data cleaning and diagnosis, scale development, and latent
variable modelling (July 2013 – December 2015).
School of Linguistics, Adult, and Specialist Education, USQ School representative. Moodle assignment development committee (March 2014 –
December 2015).
TEACHING
Course Institution Year(s) Level N Avg.
Rating
Multivariate
Statistics
UNLV 2016-
present
Graduate 8 4.78/5.00
Human
Development in
Education
UNSW 2016-
present
Graduate 22 5.60/6.00
Quantitative
Research Methods
and Evaluation
USQ 2014-
2015
Graduate 63 4.10/5.00
Lifespan USQ 2013- Undergraduate 850 4.05/5.00
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Development and
Learning
2015
Career
Development
USQ 2013 Graduate 60 4.35/5.00
Adolescent
Psychology in
Educational
Contexts
USQ 2013-
2015
Undergraduate 230 3.60/5.00
Advanced
Quantitative
Methods
UTS 2011-
2012
Graduate 28 4.50/5.00
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2016 Preparing a budget for grant applications, University of New South Wales,
Sydney.
2015 USQ Moodle Online Quiz Utility Training, University of Southern Queensland:
Toowoomba.
2014 ACSPRI course in Multilevel Modelling using Mplus: University of
Queensland: Brisbane
2013 ACPID Workshop on Meta-Analysis. Griffith University: Brisbane
2013 ACSPRI course in Advanced Structural Equation Modelling using Mplus:
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2012 EASE – Electronic Assignment Submission Training (University of Southern
Queensland)
2012 Moodle, v.2 (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
2012 Introduction to NVivo: UTS Workshop
2012 Mplus Course in Structural and Multilevel Modeling: University of Melbourne,
Melbourne, Australia
2012 Centre for Cardiovascular and Chronic Care Summer School: University of
Technology, Sydney, Australia
2011 Macquarie University Ethics Training Module
2011 Multivariate Statistics: UTS Course
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2011 Regression Analysis: Course
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Harsha N. Perera, B.Ed. (Hons 1) (Sydney), PhD (UTS) is an Assistant Professor of
Educational Psychology with the Department of Educational Psychology and Higher
Education, College of Education, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States.
Prior to this appointment, he was a SPF03 Strategic Lecturer in Educational
Psychology and Measurement with the School of Education, University of New South
Wales, Australia. He has also held a tenured lectureship in educational psychology
with the Faculty of Education, University of Southern Queensland, Australia where is
remains in an adjunct capacity. Dr. Perera has methodological interests and expertise
in educational and psychological measurement and advanced quantitative methods
(viz., structural equation, multi-level, finite mixture modeling, item factor analysis,
and Monte Carlo methods). On a substantive level, he is interested in motivation and
engagement in education and career domains. Dr Perera’s research also extends to
other cognate sub-disciplines, investigating motivation, engagement, and
measurement issues in sport, military, and clinical contexts. Most of Dr. Perera's
research is conducted in a substantive-methodological synergy framework in which
sophisticated quantitative methods are used to investigate complex substantive
problems. He is open to advising graduate students who wish to pursue research in
these areas.
Dr. Perera has published in a number of top-tier scientific journals, including
Assessment, Journal of Personality Assessment, British Journal of Educational
Psychology, Learning and Individual Differences, Teaching and Teacher Education,
Personality and Individual Differences, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and
Frontiers in Psychology. In addition, he serves on the editorial boards of the Journal
of Vocational Behavior, Frontiers in Psychology, and the Australian Journal of
Career Development, and is a regular reviewer for several national and international
journals. Dr. Perera is also the recipient of a number of prestigious awards recognizing
his research excellence, including (a) the Australian Association for Research in
Education (AARE) Ray Debus Award for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation
in education across Australia, (b) the UTS Chancellor's List Award for outstanding
doctoral research, and (c) the American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Division E Outstanding Dissertation Award.
REFEREES
1. Professor James A. Athanasou
Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Sydney
Ph. (W): + 61 2 9351 9329
Ph (H): +61 2 9349-4962
Email: [email protected]
2. Associate Professor Peter McIlveen
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Associate Professor,
School of Linguistics, Adult, and Specialist Education
University of Southern Queensland
QLD 4350
Ph (W): + 61 7 4631 2375
E-mail: [email protected]
3. Professor David Blustein
Professor, Lynch School of Education
Boston College
Campion Hall 315
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Ph. 617 552-0795
E-mail: [email protected]
4. Professor Gerard J. Fogarty
Emeritus Professor, School of Psychology
University of Southern Queensland
17 Connell St, Toowoomba,
Queensland 4350
Ph. (H) +61 7 4632 9806
Ph. (M) 0400775306