Mark Nielsen
Associate Professor
School of Psychology
The University of Queensland
Australia
Biography
Mark joined the School in 2002 as a UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellow after completing his PhD at La Trobe University. He has studied a range of inter-related aspects of socio-cognitive development in young human children and nonhuman primates, with his research primarily focused on charting the origins and development of the human cultural mind. He is also interested in how culture shapes the way children develop and has set up field sites in remote indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, Southern Africa and Vanuatu. A/Prof Nielsen has published over 70 articles and is an associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Research Interest
Charting the origins and development of the human cultural mind.
