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Professor Hayward, William Gordon 夏偉立

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Professor
Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences

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Professor Hayward, William Gordon 夏偉立

Title:
Professor
Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae:

Also Cited As:
Hayward, W
Hayward, WG
Hayward, William G
Hayward, William

Short Biography:

Prof William Hayward is Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong. He gained a BA and MA from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and a PhD in Psychology from Yale University. He held initial academic appointments at the University of Wollongong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was then Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong (2008-2013) and Head of the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland (2014-2017). 

Prof Hayward's research program is focused on how people make sense of the visual world around them. He has published extensively in the areas of object and face perception, and visual attention. He has received HK$7 million from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, and additional funds from the Australian Research Council. He is Partner Investigator on the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders. He is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychology, and until recently was Associate Editor of Visual Cognition. He is also on the editorial boards of three leading international journals.

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
1989University of Canterbury, New ZealandBA
1991University of Canterbury, New ZealandMA
1994Yale University, United StatesMS, MPhil
1995Yale University, United StatesPhD
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
12/2005 - ongoingMemberVision Sciences Society
06/1995 - ongoingMemberPsychonomic Society
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Area of Expertise:
Area of Expertise (EN)Area of Expertise (ZH)
Visual perception and cognition (視覺感知和認知)
Visual attention (視覺注意)
Object perception (物件感知)
Face perception (人臉感知)
Spoken Languages:
Spoken Language(s) (EN)Spoken Language(s) (ZH)
English英語
Written Languages:
Written Language(s) (EN)Written Language(s) (ZH)
English英文
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