Gina Perry

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Gina Perry is an award winning writer whose articles have been published in The Age, The Australian, Cosmos and New Scientist. Gina’s co-production of an ABC Radio documentary about Milgram's obedience experiments, ‘Beyond the Shock Machine’, won a Silver World Medal at New York Festival’s radio awards and her work has been anthologised in 'Best Australian Science Writing'. Gina is author of 'Behind the Shock Machine: the untold story of the notorious Milgram psychology experiments' and 'The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif's Robbers Cave experiment'. Her first novel 'My Father the Whale' was shortlisted for the Banjo Prize and published by Harper Collins in 2023. Gina has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and is an associate in the School of Culture and Communication.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Education

  •  
    RMIT, Graduate Diploma Vocational Counselling
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    LaTrobe University, Bachelor Behavioural Science
  • 2017 
    University of Melbourne, PhD
  • 2013 
    University of Melbourne, Master of Arts

Professional Memberships

  • Member, Australian Psychological Society

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