Richie Poulton

Richie Graham Poulton CNZM FRSNZ (born 1962)[1] is a New Zealand psychologist and the director of the University of Otago's Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health & Development Research Unit, which runs the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (also known as the Dunedin Study). He is also a professor of psychology at the University of Otago and the co-director of their National Centre for Lifecourse Research.[2]

Richie Poulton

CNZM FRSNZ
Richie Graham Poulton
Poulton in 2017
Born1962 (age 58–59)
NationalityNew Zealand
EducationUniversity of Otago
University of New South Wales
Auckland Grammar School
Known forDunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study
Spouse(s)Sandhya Ramrakha
ChildrenPriyanka Poulton
AwardsLiley Medal (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsClinical psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Otago
ThesisAppraisal of danger in agoraphobics and social phobics (1995)

Poulton received his master's degree in science and his postgraduate diploma in clinical psychology from the University of Otago. In 1985–86, he worked as a research assistant on the Dunedin Study, helping Terrie Moffitt assess 13-year-old study participants.[3] In 1995, he received his Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He became director of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health & Development Research Unit of the University of Otago in 2000, and was awarded a personal chair in the School of Medicine there in 2006. He founded the National Centre for Lifecourse Research in 2007, and has been its co-director since then. He also founded the Graduate Longitudinal Study, New Zealand in 2011.[2] In 2015, he was appointed chief science adviser of the Ministry of Social Development in the New Zealand government.[4]

In 2004, Poulton received the New Zealand Association of Scientists' Research Medal and the Health Research Council of New Zealand's Liley Medal for Excellence in Health Research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2010, and was named a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science and health research, in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours. He was named an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.[2] In 2019, he received the University of Otago's Distinguished Research Medal.[5]

Poulton is married to clinical psychologist Sandhya Ramrakha, with whom he has a daughter, Priyanka Poulton.[6]

References
  1. "Poulton, Richie G. (Richie Graham) (1962–)". Trove. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  2. "Professor Richie Poulton, CNZM FRSNZ". Dunedin Study. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  3. Poulton, Richie; Moffitt, Terrie E.; Silva, Phil A. (3 April 2015). "The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study: overview of the first 40 years, with an eye to the future". Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 50 (5): 679–693. doi:10.1007/s00127-015-1048-8. ISSN 0933-7954. PMC 4412685. PMID 25835958.
  4. Chisholm, Donna (February 2017). "Finding the key to successful ageing". North & South. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  5. "Prestigious award for head of Dunedin Study". Otago Daily Times. 16 September 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  6. Davie, Sandra (8 October 2017). "How well will a kid fare in life? Study offers clues". The Straits Times. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
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