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Australian academic
Professor
Matthew Sanders
AO
FASSA
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Prof Matthew Sanders, parenting researcher at the University of Queensland and a Queensland Great
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Born
| Matthew Roy Sanders
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Occupation
| University Professor
Academic
University Researcher
Family Psychologist
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Employer
| University of Queensland
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Matthew Roy Sanders
AO
FASSA
is a
parenting
researcher and professor at the
University of Queensland
in
Brisbane
,
Queensland
, Australia. In 2018, he was named as one of the
Queensland Greats
by
Queensland Premier
Annastacia Palaszczuk
in a ceremony at the
Queensland Art Gallery
on 8 June 2018.
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Sanders is the founder of the iconic
Positive Parenting Program
, known as Triple P. The program is a world leader in its approaches to parenting and family interventions. Hundreds of thousands of families across Queensland and Australia have already benefited from the program that has been translated into 22 languages and used in 28 countries by more than 76,000 accredited practitioners. Professor Sanders’ expertise is highly valued by policy makers all around the world and has advised many institutions including the Queensland Health Paediatric Advisory Panel,
Education Queensland
, National Suicide Prevention Council, US Ministry of Health, the
Council of Europe
, and the
World Health Organization
. Professor Sanders continues to be one of the world's most highly cited parenting researchers.
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Sanders was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2016.
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In the
2020 Australia Day Honours
Sanders was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for "distinguished service to education and research in clinical psychology, and to child, parent and family wellbeing".
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This article was based on material from
2018 Queensland Greats recipients
ⓒ
The State of Queensland
2018, released under
CC-BY-4.0
license
, accessed on 27 October 2018.
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