Professor Herbert W. Marsh BA (Hons), MA, PhD, DSc, Aust Acad of Soc Sci

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Herb Marsh is Professor of Educational Psychology and founding Director of the Self-concept Enhancement and Learning Facilitation (SELF) Research Centre. He has also served as Dean of Graduate Research Studies (1996-2000) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1995-96, 1997) at the UWS, Macarthur. He is the author of internationally recognised psychological tests that measure self-concept, motivation and university students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness. He has published more than 230 articles in top international journals, 22 chapters, 8 monographs, and 225 conference papers. He has reviewed articles for more than 50 journals, has been on the editorial boards of 10 international journals (J. Ed Psych, Am Ed Res J, Child Devel, J Pers & Soc Psychology, Structural Equation Modelling, In J of Sport Psych, J Exp Educ; J Sport & Exercise Psychology; J of Contemporary Ed, Organizational Research Methods), and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.

Professor Marsh was the most frequently cited Australian educational researcher in the 1980s and again in the 1990s. He was recognized as the most productive educational psychologist in the world, as one of the top 10 international researchers in Higher Education and in Social Psychology, and the 11th most productive researcher in the world across all disciplines of psychology. He was awarded the inaugural Doctorate of Science from UWS. Other international awards include a Career Achievement Award from the American Educational Research Association and the prestigious Wen Lin Visiting Professorship from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Marsh's research has consistently attracted external funding (including 8 Large ARC grants, 2 SPIRT grants, DEET National Priority Reserve and Evaluations and Investigations grants, a grant from the American Educational Research Association to study the applicability of his self-concept instrument in the US, and a collaborative study with the ARC to study the peer review process in their Large Grant Scheme).

In 1997 he founded and serves as Director of the Self-concept Enhancement and Learning Facilitation (SELF) Research Centre that has a large membership including many of the top self-concept researchers in the world and satellite centres at other Universities in Australia, Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. In 1998 Professor Marsh was awarded a Special Investigator award by the ARC to pursue his self-concept research, the first such award to a researcher in education.