Harlene Hayne
Harlene Hayne | |
|---|---|
Hayne in 2016 | |
| 6th Vice-chancellor at Curtin University | |
| Assumed office April 2021 | |
| Chancellor | Andy Crane |
| Preceded by | Deborah Terry |
| 8th Vice-chancellor at the University of Otago | |
| In office 1 August 2011 – March 2021 | |
| Chancellor | John Francis Ward Royden John Somerville |
| Preceded by | David Skegg |
| Succeeded by | David Murdoch |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Vada Harlene Hayne 1961/1962 (age 63–64) Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Colorado College (BA) Rutgers University (MS, Ph.D.) |
| Occupation | Academic administrator, psychologist |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | The effect of multiple reminders on long-term retention in human infants (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Carolyn Rovee-Collier |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Psychology |
| Institutions | |
Vada Harlene Hayne CNZM (born 1961 or 1962) is an American-born academic administrator who was the vice-chancellor and a professor of psychology at the University of Otago in New Zealand, before moving to Western Australia to take up the position of vice-chancellor at Curtin University in April 2021.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2002, and is also a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. She was recipient of the Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award from the American Psychological Foundation in 1997.
She was the first female vice-chancellor of the University of Otago, and served in the role from 2011 to 2021.