Staff Profile

Senior Lecturer

Gary Steel

BA(Hons) (VicBC) MA PhD (BrCol)

Gary Steel

Contact Details

Faculty of Environment, Society and Design

Location F804
Phone 64 3 325 3838
Extension 8784
Email Gary.Steel@lincoln.ac.nz
 

Currently Teaching

Gary is the examiner and lecturer for :

  • PSYC 102 Introduction to Social Psychology
  • PSYC 202 Motivation and Participation
  • SOCI 601 Social Science Research Methods: Quantitative.

Gary guest lectures on the topics of place attachment and polar psychology in other courses.

 

Academic and Professional Background

Member of:

  • Joint Expert Group on Human Biology and Medicine (International Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research); Leader - Psychology Sub-group
  • Standing Scientific Group - Life Sciences (International Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research);
  • Social Sciences Action Group (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research)
  • Committee on Antarctic Science (Royal Society of New Zealand)
  • Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society
  • American Psychological Association
  • Adjunct Senior Fellow at Gateway Antartica, University of Canterbury
 

Current Research and Publications / Selected Publications

  • Psychological adaptation and adjustment to extreme and unusual environments (isolated, monotonous, and/or physically challenging)
  • Place attachment, social networks, and the effects of traumatic stress on behaviour and well-being.
  • Innovation and personality
  • Motivation and physical activity, especially with respect to elite athletes


Rinne, T., Steel, G.D., & Fairweather, J. (in press). The role of Hofstede’s Individualism in national-level creativity. Creativity Research Journal.

Smith, E.F., Gidlow, B., & Steel, G. (2012). Engaging adolescent participants in academic research: The use of photo-elicitation interviews in evaluating school-based outdoor education programmes. Qualitative Research. Published on-line at http://qrj.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/05/02/1468794112443473.

Rinne, T., Steel, G.D., & Fairweather, J. (2011). Hofstede and Shane revisited: the role of power distance and individualism in national-level innovation success. Cross-Cultural Research 1069397111423898, first published on October 12, 2011 as doi:10.1177/1069397111423898.

Steel, G.D., Rinne, T., and Fairweather, J. (2011). Personality, nations, and innovations: Relationships between the Big Five personality traits and national innovation scores. Cross-Cultural Research,  46(1), 3-30. DOI: 10.1177/1069397111409124.

Steel, G.D., Rinne, T., Fairweather, J. (2011, June). Principles that guide innovation: Predicting the Global Innovation Index score with dimensions of human values. In J. Fairweather (Ed.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Invention, Innovation, and Commercialisation with Special Emphasis on Technology Users’ Innovation, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Gibbs, S., Steel, G.D, & Kuiper, A. (2011). Expectations of competency: the mismatch between employers’ and graduates’ views of end-user computing skills requirements in the workplace. Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 10, 371-382.

Palinkas, L.A., Reedy, K., Shepanek, M., Smith, M., Anghel, M., Steel, G.D., Reeves, D., Case, H.S., Do, N.V., and Reed, H.L. (2007). Environmental influences on hypothalamic-thyroid function and behaviour in Antarctica. Physiology and Behaviour, 92, 790-799.

Palinkas, L.A., Reedy, K., Smith, M., Anghel, M., Steel, G.D., Reeves, D., Shurtleff, D., Case, H.S., Do, N.V., and Reed, H.L. (2007). Psychoneuroendocrine effects of combined thyroxine and triiodothyronine versus tyrosine during prolonged Antarctic residence. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 66, 401-417. 

Stewart, E. J; Kirby, V.G. & Steel, G.D. (2006) Perceptions of Antarctic tourism: A question of tolerance. Landscape Research 31:193-214.

Suedfeld, P., & Steel, G.D. (2000). The environmental psychology of capsule habitats. Annual Review of Psychology, 51:227-253.

 

Supervision

Gary is currently supervising the following students:

  • Lizamore, C. (PhD) Health effects of intermittent hypoxic exposure.
  • Suthanthangjai, M. (PhD) Understanding changes in New Zealanders’ perceptions of their environment 2000-2010.
  • Taylor, S. (MApplSc) The impact of humour on performance of a stressful task.
  • Varona, G. (PhD) Towards a climate change adaption framework for Caribbean coastal and marine tourism: a temporal analogue case study of managing climate variability, change and extreme events in Tobago. 

The complete list of supervisions for Faculty of Environment, Society and Design.

 

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