Nick Haslam is Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. A BA(Hons) graduate of the University of Melbourne, Nick received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, and taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City before returning to Australia in 2002. Nick's research interests are in the fields of personality, social psychology and psychiatric classification, and he has published 9 books and more than 270 articles or book chapters in these and related areas. In addition to his academic writing, Nick contributes regularly to The Conversation, Inside Story and Australian Book Review, and he has also written for TIME, The Monthly, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Australian and two Best Australian Science Writing anthologies. Nick is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Association for Psychological Science. In the university he is a leader in the social psychology group and co-director of the Mental Health PhD program. In the recent past he has been Pro Vice-Chancellor (Graduate), a member of the ARC College of Experts, Head of the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne, President of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists, and Director of the Researchers for Asylum Seekers group.