Doctor Alan Keen School of Human, Health and Social Sciences

I have been frequently interviewed by newspapers, radio and TV stations on various topics in clinical psychology.

I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Wollongong in 1994 and have been working at the CQ University since 1995.

I have taught various subjects such as Physiological Psychology (2nd year subject), Cognitive Psychology (3rd year subject), Individual Differences and Assessment (3rd year subject). I have also taught advanced Assessment for Masters in Clinical Psychology students. 

I have been practising psychological and counselling services in Queensland since 1998.

I am a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS)  and the APS Clinical College.

I have been teaching Personality (2nd year subject) in Term 1, 2013 and Physiological Psychology (2nd year subject) in Term 2, 2013. Also supervise some 4th year students research projects. Currently I am co-supervisor of some Ph.D. students. I am also supervising practicum of some 4th year students.

I am interested in research in clinical psychology, memory and learning and issues related to children and adolescents' mental health.

I am able to design psychological experiments using E-Prime. I teach data analysis to Ph.D. and the university staff members using SPSS and AMOS software packages.

I have supervised a large number of 4th year research projects, supervised a Masters student and co-supervised some Ph.D. students. 

Keen, A. G. & Erickson, K. M. (1999). Association between neurodevelopmental and immune disorders. Proceedings of the British Psychological Society, 1999, 74.

Keen, A. G. & Lovegrove, W. J. (1993). What are the determinants of "globality?” Australian Journal of Psychology, 45, 109.

Keen, A. G. & Lovegrove, W. J. (1994). The role of size and eccentricity in the global precedence effect, Australian Journal of Psychology, 46, 1.

Keen, A. G. & Lovegrove, W. J. (1996). Do the global advantage and interference effects co-vary? Australian Journal of Psychology, 48, 32.

Keen, A. G. & Lovegrove, W. J. (1997). Role of eccentricity on the global interference and advantage effects. Australian Journal of Psychology, 49, 14.

Keen, A. G. & Townsend, J. (1998). The epitome of the revelation effect: role of discrimination and decision criterion. Australian Journal of Psychology, 50, 54.

Keen, A. G. & Widdup, M. A. (1998). Specific reading disability: Role of colour, spatial filtering, masking, complexity, and stimulus onset asynchrony. Australian Journal of Psychology, 50, 55.

Keen, A. G. (1997). Transient visual processing deficit in dyslexic children. Australian Journal of Psychology, 49, 14.

Keen, A. G. (1999). Visual processing of children suffering specific reading disability. British Psychological Society, 1999, 74.

Erickson, K. M. & Keen, A. G. (1998). Neurodevelopmental disorders: An empirical analysis of the testosterone and immunoreactive hypothesis. Australian Journal of Psychology, 50, 50.

Keen, A. G. & Hendry, G. D. (1994). Cognitive Strategies. Perceptual and  Motor Skills, 78,  491-500.

Keen, A. G. & Lovegrove, W. J. (1996). Role of eccentricity and size in the global precedence effect. Journal  of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and  Performance,  22, 1434-1447.

Keen, A. G. & Lovegrove, W. J. (1997). Perceptual organisation and the global-local relationship.  Psychologia,  40, 53-62.

Keen, A. G. & Lovegrove, W. J. (1999). Do global advantage and interference co-vary? Perception and Psychophysics, 61, 1308-1319.

Keen, A. G. & Lovegrove, W. J. (2000). Transient deficit hypothesis and dyslexia: Examination of whole/part relationship, retinal sensitivity, and spatial and temporal frequencies, Vision Research, 40, 705-715.

Keen, A. G. (1997). Outside-in processing and the global precedence effect. In V. Laksminarayanan (Ed.). Basic and clinical applications of vision science. (pp. 249-253). The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publisher.

Keen, A. G. (1998). Relative size of global visual stimulus: advantage and interference, Perceptual and motor skills, 86, 1427-1441.

Morris, D. K., Wood, G. R., Baritompa, W. P., & Keen, A. G. (2001). A multiple binary Markov Chain model for explaining the behaviour of diverse biological phenomena. Biometrical Journal, 5, 123-145.

Erickson, K. M. & Keen, A. G. (1998). Neurodevelopmental disorders: An empirical analysis of the testosterone and immunoreactive hypothesis. Experimental Psychology Conference. Hobart, April.

Keen, A. G. & Erickson, K. M. (1999). Association between neurodevelopmental and immune disorders. British Psychological Society, London Conference. London, December.

Keen, A. G. & Lovegrove, W. J. (1993). What are the determinants of "globality"?Experimental Psychology Conference. Melbourne, April.

Keen, A. G. & Lovegrove, W. J. (1994). The role of size and eccentricity in the global precedence effect. Experimental Psychology Conference. Sydney, April.

Keen, A. G. & Lovegrove, W. J. (1996). Do the global advantage and interference effects co-vary? Experimental Psychology Conference. Perth, April.

Keen, A. G. & Lovegrove, W. J. (1997). Role of eccentricity on the global interference and advantage effects. Experimental Psychology Conference. Geelong, April.

Keen, A. G. & Townsend, J. (1998). The epitome of the revelation effect: role of discrimination and decision criterion. Experimental Psychology Conference. Hobart, April.

Keen, A. G. & Widdup, M. A. (1998). Specific reading disability: Role of colour, spatial filtering, masking, complexity, and stimulus onset asynchrony. Experimental Psychology Conference. Hobart, April.

Keen, A. G. (1997). Transient visual processing deficit in dyslexic children. Experimental Psychology Conference. Geelong, April.

Keen, A. G. (1999). Visual processing of children suffering specific reading disability. Bristish Psychological Society, London Conference. London, December.

Keen, A. G. (2002). Dyslexia and visual processing. Annual Convention of American Psychological Society. New Orleans, May/June 2002.