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Susan Kippax

Susan Caroline Kippax AO FASSA (born 1941) is an Australian social psychologist and is Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales.

Susan Kippax
AO FASSA
Born1941 (age 82–83)
NationalityAustralian
Other namesSusan Caroline Kippax
OccupationSocial psychologist
AwardsRhodes Travelling Fellowship, 1970
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
ThesisAttitudes: A theory and experimental investigation of their complex nature (1972)
Academic work
InstitutionsMacquarie University
University of New South Wales
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Academic career

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Born in 1941,[1] Kippax graduated from the University of Sydney with a BA (1968).[2] In 1970 she won a Rhodes Travelling Fellowship to study at the University of Oxford.[3] She completed her PhD (1972) at the University of Sydney.[2] Her thesis was titled Attitudes: A theory and experimental investigation of their complex nature.[4]

In 1973 Kippax joined the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University where she helped establish the National Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHIVSR) in 1995. In 1999 she and the NCHIVSR moved to the University of New South Wales. She was appointed Emeritus Professor in 2008.[3]

In 1999 Kippax was one of four Founding Editors of Culture, Health & Sexuality, the journal of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society.[5][6] She was co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the International Aids Society for ten years, retiring in July 2019.[7]

Honours and recognition

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Kippax was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2000.[8]

She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to higher education, and to community health, particularly through research into HIV prevention and treatment".[3]

Selected works

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Books

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  • Rosengarten, Marsha; Race, Kane; Kippax, Susan (2000), Touch wood, everything will be ok: Gay men's understandings of clinical markers in sexual practice, National Centre in HIV Social Research, ISBN 978-1-875978-40-3
  • Southgate, Erica; Kippax, Susan; Owler, Kathryn (2002), Social research needs analysis: The Australian Intravenous League and the Australian Hepatitis Council and their member organisations, National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, ISBN 978-1-875978-53-3
  • Smith, Gary; Worth, Heather; Kippax, Susan (2004), Sexual adventurism among Sydney gay men, University of New South Wales, National Centre in HIV Social Research, ISBN 978-1-875978-78-6
  • Kippax, Susan; Stephenson, Niamh (2016), Socialising the biomedical turn in HIV prevention, Anthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-78308-507-1

Articles

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References

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  1. ^ "Susan Kippax". VIAF. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Emeritus Professor Susan Caroline Kippax". UNSW Sydney. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Emeritus Professor Susan Caroline KIPPAX". It's An Honour. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  4. ^ Kippax, Susan Caroline (1971), Attitudes: A theory and experimental investigation of their complex nature, [s.n.], retrieved 15 January 2021
  5. ^ "Culture, Health & Sexuality". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Culture, Health & Sexuality Editorial Board". www.tandfonline.com. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  7. ^ "Journal of the International AIDS Society". Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  8. ^ "Academy Fellow: Emeritus Professor Sue Kippax FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
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