Jolanda Jetten (PhD, University of Amsterdam, 1997) is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Queensland. She was until recently employed as an ARC Future Fellowship and took up a 3-year UQ Development Fellowship in 2017.
Her research is concerned with group processes, social identity and intergroup relations, as represented by her most recent books: The wealth Paradox: Economic prosperity and the hardening of attitudes towards minorities (with Frank Mols; Cambridge University Press, 2017) and The Social Cure: Identity, Health and Well-being (co-edited with Catherine Haslam and Alex Haslam; Psychology Press, 2012). She has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles, over 35 chapters and 4 books.
Jolanda is the former co-Chief Editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology and currently serves as co-Chief Editor of Social Issues and Policy Review. She has also served as an Associate Editor for the BJSP, Social Psychology and is currently an associate editor with CRSP. She was awarded the British Psychological Society Spearman Medal in 2004 and the Kurt Lewin Medal from the European Association of Social Psychology in 2014. Jolanda is the former President of the Society of Australasian Social Psychology (SASP) and served on the ARC College of Experts. She was elected as fellow of the Association of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) in 2015.