Rate My Professor Belinda Flannery

Dr. Belinda Flannery is a Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of New England. She holds a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) and a PhD, both from the University of New England, and is a registered psychologist with general registration (PSY0001524835). Serving as Fourth Year Coordinator, she teaches Psychopathology (PSYC363) and provides supervision for honours theses in social psychology. With extensive experience in psychological intervention and counselling support within tertiary settings, Dr. Flannery researches factors influencing student wellbeing and the tertiary student experience.

Dr. Flannery's research specializations lie in social psychology, emphasizing social harmony and the elements that disrupt it, such as group membership, prejudice, discrimination, nationalism, populism, political conservatism, and right-wing ideology. She investigates the psychology of group protection and its connections to individual behaviours, attitudes, and intergroup dynamics. Her areas of supervision include prejudice, intergroup dynamics, social cohesion, group processes, nationalism, populism, group protection, and fundamental social motives. Notable publications comprise the book chapter 'Pauline Hanson, One Nation (PHON) and right-wing protective popular nationalism: Monocultural tendencies at the expense of social cohesion' (Flannery & Watt, 2019) in The rise of right-populism: Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and Australian politics; journal article “'To Protect and to (Pre)serve': The moderating effects of right-wing protective popular nationalism on aggressive tendencies towards ethnic minorities” (Flannery, Watt, & Phillips, 2021, Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 5(2), 103-113); and “Looking out for (white) Australia: Developing the construct and a measure of right-wing protective popular nationalism” (Flannery, Watt, & Schutte, 2021, International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 10(2), 74-91). She has also co-authored symposium contributions on humanising nature (Schutte, Flannery, & Loi, 2024, International Journal of Psychology).