Rate My Professor Darren Burke

Burke's academic career includes a BSc (Hons) and PhD in Psychology from the University of Sydney (1984–1993), followed by a lectureship in the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong (1995–2002) and an associate professorship in the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University (2002–2009). Since 2009, he has been Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Newcastle. His work has garnered over 1,880 citations on Google Scholar. Key publications include 'A new viewpoint on the evolution of sexually dimorphic human faces' (Evolutionary Psychology, 2010), 'The evolution of holistic processing of faces' (Frontiers in Psychology, 2013), 'Is There an Own-Race Preference in Attractiveness?' (Evolutionary Psychology, 2013), 'Why isn't everyone an evolutionary psychologist?' (Frontiers in Psychology, 2014), 'Food-specific spatial memory biases in an omnivorous bird' (Biology Letters, 2007), and more recent contributions such as 'The composite effect reveals that human (but not other primate) faces are special to humans' (2023) and 'Complex interactions confound any unitary approach to social phenomena, not just biological ones' (Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023). Burke contributes to teaching courses such as PSYC3301 and oversees student progress in psychology programs.