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My Current Research Interests:
Background:
I am Professor of Psychology and Rehabilitation at the Auckland University of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand.
I have also lectured in Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, Rehabilitation at the University of Otago (Wellington School of Medicine ) and Rehabilitation at King's College London. I teach and do my research in both Psychology and Rehabilitation. I trained as a clinical psychologist and later specialised in clinical neuropsychology. My PhD investigated stress and social support in unemployed people using psychometric methods to develop reliable, valid, readable and brief self-report questionnaires. Since then measurement and psychometrics have been an important theme in my work although their application has broadened to include people with psychological disorders, neurological conditions and people receiving palliative care.
In recent years most of my research has focused on three themes (i) Goal-setting in neurological rehabilitation (ii) Psychometrics and (Iiii) Mindfulness for psychological and physical wellbeing. The work on goal-setting has been mostly been in collaboration with my colleague Dr William Levack of the University of Otago. We published a co-edited book titled Rehabilitation Goal Setting: Theory, Practice and Evidence. This book is available from CRC Press a division of Taylor and Francis. We also completed a Cochrane review of goal setting in rehabilitation.
My psychometric work is typically concerned with the development, evaluation and application of pencil-and paper and online measures of complex constructs (e.g quality of life, dependency, spiritual well-being and recovery) in psychology and the health sciences. My interest in this field began in the 1980's when I completed my PhD at Victoria University under the supervision of Professor Tony Taylor and Dr Frank Walkey. Psychometrics remained an important part of my research portfolio and it was one of the skills that enabled me to gain a position in 2007, as a Senior Lecturer at King's College London, working with Professor Lynne Turner-Stokes - one of the leading rehabilitation physicians in the UK. This also enabled me to train in modern Item Response Theory methods and Rasch analysis. I was fortunate enough to learn about Rasch modelling from Professor Alan Tennant at Leeds University. One of my current interests is the scientific study of mindfulness meditation and I have a PhD student Oleg Medvedev who is using both psychometric and psychophysiological measures to gain insights into the mechanisms underpinning the beneficial effects of mindfulness training.
CONTACT ME: richard.siegert@aut.ac.nz
My Current Research Interests:
- Goal-setting in healthcare: I have published several articles and one edited book on the theory, practice and evidence underpinning goal setting in neurological rehabilitation. In 2015 we published a Cochrane review of the topic.
- I am currently working with Professor Lynne Turner-Stokes at King’s College London on goal planning with patients/families with disorders of consciousness.
- Measuring health outcomes: I am involved in several projects concerned with evaluating or developing sound measurement tools for psychology, rehabilitation and health fields. Most of my work here centers on using classical test theory methods and modern item response theory approaches for achieving accurate and reliable measures in a broad range of conditions including: neurological conditions (e.g. stroke and TBI), psychiatric disorder, cancer, respiratory diseases (sarcoidosis, bronchiectasis and ILD), HIV/AIDS and people requiring palliative care.
- I am currently working with Dr Margaret Sandham, Senior Lecturer in Nursing at AUT on developing outcome measures for palliative care in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
- Mindfulness: Its measurement and application in health.
- I am currently working with Associate Professor Chris Krägeloh on applying Classical Test Theory and Rasch modelling to a range of Mindfulness scales.
- Depression: Understanding depression in Pacific Island youth.
- I am currently working with the Pacific Islands Families Study group on understanding pathways to depression combining psychosocial, immunological and genetic data.
Background:
I am Professor of Psychology and Rehabilitation at the Auckland University of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand.
I have also lectured in Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, Rehabilitation at the University of Otago (Wellington School of Medicine ) and Rehabilitation at King's College London. I teach and do my research in both Psychology and Rehabilitation. I trained as a clinical psychologist and later specialised in clinical neuropsychology. My PhD investigated stress and social support in unemployed people using psychometric methods to develop reliable, valid, readable and brief self-report questionnaires. Since then measurement and psychometrics have been an important theme in my work although their application has broadened to include people with psychological disorders, neurological conditions and people receiving palliative care.
In recent years most of my research has focused on three themes (i) Goal-setting in neurological rehabilitation (ii) Psychometrics and (Iiii) Mindfulness for psychological and physical wellbeing. The work on goal-setting has been mostly been in collaboration with my colleague Dr William Levack of the University of Otago. We published a co-edited book titled Rehabilitation Goal Setting: Theory, Practice and Evidence. This book is available from CRC Press a division of Taylor and Francis. We also completed a Cochrane review of goal setting in rehabilitation.
My psychometric work is typically concerned with the development, evaluation and application of pencil-and paper and online measures of complex constructs (e.g quality of life, dependency, spiritual well-being and recovery) in psychology and the health sciences. My interest in this field began in the 1980's when I completed my PhD at Victoria University under the supervision of Professor Tony Taylor and Dr Frank Walkey. Psychometrics remained an important part of my research portfolio and it was one of the skills that enabled me to gain a position in 2007, as a Senior Lecturer at King's College London, working with Professor Lynne Turner-Stokes - one of the leading rehabilitation physicians in the UK. This also enabled me to train in modern Item Response Theory methods and Rasch analysis. I was fortunate enough to learn about Rasch modelling from Professor Alan Tennant at Leeds University. One of my current interests is the scientific study of mindfulness meditation and I have a PhD student Oleg Medvedev who is using both psychometric and psychophysiological measures to gain insights into the mechanisms underpinning the beneficial effects of mindfulness training.
CONTACT ME: richard.siegert@aut.ac.nz
