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5.08/20/2025

Always patient and willing to help.

4.05/21/2025

Encourages independent and critical thought.

5.03/31/2025

Makes even hard topics easy to grasp.

4.02/27/2025

Inspires students to love their studies.

5.02/4/2025

Great Professor!

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About Gavin

Gavin R. Slemp is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Wellbeing Science within the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Faculty of Education, at the University of Melbourne. He earned his Doctor of Psychology from Monash University in 2013, along with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours. As a registered organisational psychologist, Slemp's academic career has focused on advancing research in motivational psychology and workplace wellbeing. His investigations apply self-determination theory to explore autonomy support, job crafting, intrinsic need satisfaction, and their impacts on motivation, performance, and mental health in occupational and educational settings. Slemp previously worked at the Centre for Positive Psychology and has contributed to projects on positive education, life crafting interventions, and adolescent wellbeing studies.