Annette Henderson
{{Short description|Psychology professor in New Zealand}}
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Annette Margaret Elizabeth Henderson is a New Zealand developmental psychologist, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in the development of cooperation in children. She was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship and has been a principal investigator on two Marsden grants.
Academic career
Henderson completed a Master of Science at the University of Calgary and a PhD titled Conventionality and children's word learning at Queen's University.{{Cite thesis|title=Two-year-olds' appreciation of the conventionality of novel labels in indirect word learning contexts |last=Henderson|first=Annette Margaret Elizabeth|type=Master's thesis|publisher=University of Calgary|url=https://ucalgary.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UCALG_INST/46l39d/alma991029906667104336|date=2002}}{{Cite thesis|title= Conventionality and children's word learning|last=Henderson|first=Annette M. E.|type=PhD thesis|publisher=Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario|url=https://ocul-qu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_QU/15tp3o5/cdi_proquest_journals_304775571|date=2007}} Henderson completed postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland,{{Cite web |last=University of Auckland |title=Academic profile: Professor Annette Henderson |url=https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/a-henderson |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=profiles.auckland.ac.nz}} before joining the faculty of the University of Auckland in 2009, rising to full professor in 2024.{{Cite web |title=Inaugural Lecture Series - The University of Auckland |url=https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/news-and-events/inaugural-lecture-series.html |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=www.auckland.ac.nz}} Henderson established and is the director of the Early Learning Laboratory at Auckland. Henderson was president of the Australasian Human Development Association from 2019, and served on the editorial board of the Journal of Cognition and Development.{{Cite web |title=Leadership |url=https://www.ahda.org.au/leadership |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=AHDA |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Director – Early Learning Lab – University of Auckland |url=https://www.earlylearning.ac.nz/current-ella-members/annette-henderson/ |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=www.earlylearning.ac.nz}}
Henderson was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship in 2015, to research the impact of culture and interactions with caregivers on the development of cooperation in young children, by comparing children in New Zealand and Vanuatu.{{Cite web |title=Rutherford Discovery Fellows - The University of Auckland |url=https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/research/about-our-research/rutherford-discovery-fellows.html |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=www.auckland.ac.nz}}{{Cite web |title=Introducing Dr. Annette Henderson |url=https://www.playlogy.co.nz/blogs/blog/the-five-areas-of-baby-brain-development |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=PlayLogy |language=en}} Henderson has also been a principal investigator on two Marsden grants, a fast start grant in 2013 called Shaping cooperation: identifying how genes, experience, and socio-cognitive ability influence the development of cooperation in early childhood, with Donald Love, and a full grant in 2017 called Conflict recovery in families: Why inevitable conflict does not have to be detrimental, with Nickola Overall and Elizabeth Peterson.{{Cite web |title=Search Marsden awards 2008–2017 |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/funds-and-opportunities/marsden/awarded-grants/search-marsden-awards/ |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}
Henderson featured as one of the psychologists on the TVNZ series Secret Life of Girls.{{Cite web |title=ELLA in the wider world – Early Learning Lab – University of Auckland |url=https://www.earlylearning.ac.nz/ella-in-the-wider-world/ |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=www.earlylearning.ac.nz}}{{Cite web |date=2018-09-11 |title=The Secret Life of Girls |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018662040/the-secret-life-of-girls |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}}
Selected works
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- {{CiteQ|Q37719262}}
- {{CiteQ|Q35174613}}
- {{CiteQ|Q35185069}}
- {{CiteQ|Q104792612}}
- {{CiteQ|Q50306516}}
- {{CiteQ|Q125179032}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018652291/first-time-parent-from-theory-to-practice First-time parent: from theory to practice] Henderson interviewed on Nine to Noon, talking about the experience of being a mum and a childhood development expert, 5 July 2018
- [https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/contemporary-feminism/story/2018707969/how-has-feminism-changed-the-way-we-raise-boys How has feminism changed the way we raise boys?] Henderson as part of a panel interviewed by Susie Ferguson, 18 August 2019
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Category:New Zealand academics
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Category:New Zealand psychologists
Category:Developmental psychologists
Category:Academic staff of the University of Auckland
Category:Queen's University at Kingston alumni