Dr Anita Mak

Associate Professor

Contact Information

Phone: 02 6201 2704
Fax: 02 6201 5753
Email: Anita.Mak@canberra.edu.au
Postal Address: University of Canberra ACT 2601

Areas of Responsibility

• Anita is Associate Professor in Applied Psychology and convener of the Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology course in UC’s Centre for Applied Psychology, School of Health Sciences. Her main areas of teaching are Health Psychology, Psychological Measurement, and aspects of Personality and Applied Social Psychology. She supervises research projects at the Honours, Postgraduate Diploma, Master’s and PhD levels in the individual and sociocultural factors of health and wellbeing. She is a member of UC’s Equal Opportunity Committee.

Biography

Anita received her PhD in Psychology in 1988 from the Australian National University (ANU), and holds a B. Soc. Sc. (Hons) degree in Psychology and Statistics, and a Master’s in Social Sciences (Clin Psych) from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She is a registered psychologist in the ACT and a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), the APS College of Health Psychologists, Australasian Society of Behavioural Health and Medicine, Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Asian Association of Social Psychology, and Society of Australasian Social Psychologists. She is a member of the Australian Migration Research Network.

Anita has previously taught at HKU and the ANU, and practised as a psychologist in Hong Kong and Canberra. She has held visiting academic appointments at the University of Queensland, the University of British Columbia, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKU, and the ANU.

Anita’s research areas are cross-cultural adaptation of immigrants and international students, adolescent problem behaviours and mental health, personality, work-related stress and health, and evaluations of programs for enhancing social competence and wellbeing. Anita has over 60 peer-reviewed publications, including 3 empirical research monographs, 7 book chapters, and articles published in 22 refereed journals. She regularly reviews articles for publications in scholarly journals and major grant applications, examine external research theses, and conducts professional training workshops.

Anita has supervised to completion many dozens of research theses. She is a member of two teams that had won Australian national teaching awards. She has received UC’s Awards for Innovative Teaching and for University Service. She has sat on various committees in the areas of equity, cultural diversity, staff development, and international education. She is a co-developer of the EXCELL Program for Intercultural Success, an evidence-based cognitive-behavioural program for developing sociocultural competencies, which has been implemented nationally and in Canada, Europe, the UK, and New Zealand, to improve the adjustment and health of international students, immigrants, and jobseekers.

Anita has completed research consultancies and professional short courses for the Australian Institute of Family Studies, Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, IDP Education Australia, Melbourne University Dunlop Asia Leadership Program, Griffith University, James Cook University, the Australian National University, University of Canberra Professional Management Programs, University of British Columbia (Canada), the Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education, Victoria University of Wellington’s Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research (New Zealand), and the private sector.

She was profiled as one of fifty inspiring migrants to Australia in McCarthy’s (1999) A Fair Go: Portraits of the Australian Dream. (Edgecliff, NSW: Focus Publishing), for her professional contributions to teaching and research in psychology.

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