Academy Fellow

Professor Michael Innes is currently an Adjunct Research Professor in Justice and Society at the University of South Australia and a Professor in the School of Psychology in the Australian College of Applied Professions, based in Adelaide,from 2010 to the present. He was until 2009 inaugural Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Murdoch University International Studies Centre based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and previously Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide. He has been a Visiting Research Professor with the Interactive Television Research institute, Murdoch University, Western Australia, the Department of Psychology, State University of Arizona and the Research Center in Group Dynamics, Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan and in the Department of Social and Quantitative Psychology, University of Barcelona. In late 2023 he will be a Visiting By-Fellow, Churchill College, university of Cambridge. Trained as a psychologist, he specialises in social and political psychology, especially the psychology of values and attitudes. Other areas of interest include:

• methodology of program evaluation
• influences of film
• influence of values and political ideology on the execution of social psychological inquiry
• Impact of developments in Artificial Intelligence on employment and on the profession of Psychology.

• Chair, National Committee of Psychology of Australian Academy of Science
• Member of Humanities and Social Sciences Panel of Australian Research Council, 1992-95
• Chair of the Division of Research and Teaching of the Australian Psychological Society, 1999-2001
• Director of Science of Australian Psychological Society 2000-2001.
• Editor, Australian Journal of Psychology, 2003-2006.

Memberships / Fellowships

• Fellow of the British Psychological Society
• Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society
• Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology
• Fellow of the Association of Psychological Sciences

• S. Stevenson, G.Hall and J M Innes (2003) Sociomoral reasoning and criminal sentiments in Australian men and women violent offenders and non-offenders., International Journal of Forensic Psychology, 1(1): 111-119.
• J M Innes (2001) Values, attitudes and beliefs, In Psychological science: An introduction. N. Bond and K. McConkey (eds.). Sydney: McGraw-Hill.
• S. Hodgkinson and J M Innes (2000) The prediction of ecological and environmental belief systems, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 20:285-294.
• J M Innes and D Siddle (1998) Values and attitudes, In Challenges for the Social Sciences and Australia, Volume 2. (eds.). Canberra, ACT: National Board of Employment, Education and Training.
• J M Innes and B W Morrison (2021). Artificial intelligence and psychology. In A. Elliott (Ed), Routledge Social Science Handbook of Artificial intelligence. Routledge.
• J M Innes and B W Morrison (2020). Experimental studies of human robot interaction: threats to valid interpretation from methodological constraints associated with experimental manipulations. International Journal of Social Robotics, 13 (4), 765-737.
• Innes, J M and B W Morrison (2022). COVID-19 exposes the essential tensions in the provision of higher education and training in psychology: A case study. Australian Universities Review, 64(1), 27-38.