Peter Strelan

Professor Peter Strelan

Head of School of Psychology

School of Psychology

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Professor Peter Strelan works at the intersection of social psychology and individual differences. His broad research interest is in the area of forgiveness, with a specific focus on the relation between justice and forgiveness.

He also has an interest in body image, in particular the application of objectification theory to explaining the antecedents and consequences of negative body image.

I am an education specialist with expertise in the flipped classroom and interest in the development of innovative teaching exercises. I also conduct research that is located at the intersection of social psychology and individual differences. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how people get along, particularly when conflict and transgressions occur.  Both justice and social harmony are fundamentally important to humans; how do we get both following a transgression? Thus, most of research is concerned with forgiveness, with a special emphasis on the relation between justice and forgiveness. 

 

 

External

  • $180,000: Templeton Foundation 2023-2025
    • CIs: Strelan and Bartholomaeus
    • "Quantifying the Divine: Developing a measure of divine forgiveness"
  • $232,000: ARC Discovery Grant (DP0877945) 2008-2010
    • CI: Strelan.
    • “A new conceptualisation of forgiveness: Altruistic and self-interested foci as predictors of psychological costs and benefits of forgiveness”

The University of Adelaide

  • NCSU-Adelaide Starter Grant (w/Kelly-Lynn Mulvey, NCSU) 2020[PS1] 

    $1,200              Faculty of Health Sciences Summer Scholarship; supervised Ria Aiyar 2019/20

    $1,200              Faculty of Health Sciences Summer Scholarship; supervised Tayla Bradley 2018/19


    • $20,000 NCSU-Adelaide Starter Grant 2020
    • $1,200              Faculty of Health Sciences Summer Scholarship; supervised Ria Aiyar 2019/20
    • $1,200              Faculty of Health Sciences Summer Scholarship; supervised Tayla Bradley 2018/19
    • $20,000 SGDE Development Grant 2016
      • with Cathy Snelling and Sophie Karanicolas (Dentistry), Adriano Millazo (Public Health), David Wilson, Kim Hynes (Medicine)
    • $2,200 Faculty of Health Sciences cultural enrichment teaching grant 2016
  • $9,595 School of Psychology RIBG small grant 2015
    • Development of a children’s card sort measure of forgiveness
  • $9,074 School of Psychology RIBG small grant 2014
    • When love does not conquer all: Towards improving interventions for children with a disrupted attachment history and associated ASD-like symptoms.
  • $3,990 School of Psychology RIBG small grant 2014
    • Trust as a mediator between relationship closeness and forgiveness
  • $6,000 Faculty of Health Sciences Summer Scholarship
    • supervised Youngblood Roche 2013/14
  • $6,000 Faculty of Health Sciences Summer Scholarship
    • supervised Caroline diFiore 2013/14
  • $6,000 Faculty of Health Sciences Summer Scholarship
    • supervised Jasmine Currall 2012/13
  • $6,000 Faculty of Health Sciences Summer Scholarship
    • supervised Sarah Hunter 2012/13
  • $5,625 School of Psychology RIBG small grant 2012
    • The deleterious effects of self-focused attention on forgiveness
  • $6,000 Faculty of Health Sciences Summer Scholarship
    • supervised Alison Robb, 2011/12
  • $3,000: School of Psychology application support for ARC-Discovery Grant 2007
  • $1,500: School of Psychology conference travel 2006
  • $15,000: Faculty of Health Sciences Establishment Grant 2005

Currently I am Head of School of Psychology

 

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2021 Principal Supervisor Trait and Situational Predictors of Interpersonal Objectification in Male and Female Perpetrators Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Danielle Grace Tetley
    2018 Co-Supervisor Perceptions and Experiences of Power in Romantic Relationships Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Stephenie Joulie Pagoudis
    2018 Principal Supervisor The Act of Forgiveness: Can Psychological Flexibility Explain and Facilitate Genuine Intra and Interpersonal Forgiveness Doctor of Philosophy/Master of Psychology (Clinical) Doctorate Part Time Mrs Jemima Rohini Bem
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2020 - 2024 Principal Supervisor Promoting Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing in Secondary Schools Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr David Arthur Scholz
    2019 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Design of an Extended Educational Technology Acceptance Model (EETAM) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Andrew Charles Kemp
    2018 - 2021 Principal Supervisor The Empowering Role of the Belief in a Just World for the Self in Adaptive Psychological Functioning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Jonathan David Bartholomaeus
    2018 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Psychological Literacy in Undergraduate Psychology Learning and
    Teaching
    Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Samantha Jane Newell
    2017 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Exploring Systemic Injustice and Wellbeing among Uyghurs in Australia Doctor of Philosophy/Master of Psychology (Clinical) Doctorate Full Time Mrs Mastura Alim
    2017 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Relocated Undergraduates' Academic Success and Well-being: Factors Associated with Type of Residence, Social Support, Meaning-in-Life, Belonging, and Sense of Community Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Rev Susan Frances Straub
    2014 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Does it matter why people forgive? How a victim's reasons for forgiving change the outcomes of forgiveness Doctor of Philosophy with Master of Psychology (Organisational and Human Factors) Doctorate Full Time Jordan Brian Gabriels
    2014 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Trust Heals, Commitment Hurts: Disentangling Predictors of Coping with Interpersonal Betrayal Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Josiah Krieg
    2012 - 2017 Principal Supervisor A Principles-based Approach to ACT with Self-Forgiveness: New Approaches to Flexible Living Doctor of Philosophy/Master of Psychology (Clinical) Doctorate Full Time Dr Grant Malcolm Dewar
    2008 - 2013 Principal Supervisor Predicting Pro-Relational and Prosocial Responses to Received Forgiveness: The Role of State Gratitude Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Louise Elizabeth Joan Mooney
    2008 - 2014 Principal Supervisor The Identification and Measurement of Barriers to Forgiveness Following an Interpersonal Transgression Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Heather Pearce
    2008 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Measuring Children's Forgiveness: Development of the Children's Forgiveness Card Set Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Emma Kemp
    2007 - 2011 Principal Supervisor The Development of an Implicit Association Test for Measuring Forgiveness Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jeremy Goldring
    2006 - 2009 Co-Supervisor The Conceptualisation, Status and Measurement of Technology-based Gaming Behaviour and its Correlates Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Daniel King
  • Position: Head of School of Psychology
  • Phone: 83135662
  • Email: peter.strelan@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 83133770
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Hughes, floor 7
  • Org Unit: Psychology

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