Rate My Professor James Brown

Dr James Brown serves as a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of New England's School of Psychology within the Faculty of Medicine and Health. He earned his PhD from the University of Southern Queensland, with a dissertation titled Barriers and Facilitators of Father Involvement in Child Development. Additional qualifications include a Master of Counselling Psychology from Swinburne University, a Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology), and a Postgraduate Diploma (Psychology) from Queensland University of Technology. With more than 20 years as a practicing clinical psychologist and consultant across Australia, working with individuals, families, and organizations, Dr Brown brings extensive practical experience to his academic role. His expertise centers on men's mental health, fatherhood studies, and the wellbeing of helping professionals, with teaching focused on evidence-based practice, professional resilience, and psychological interventions in clinical and community contexts.

Dr Brown's research interests encompass the transition to fatherhood and co-parenting roles, psychological benefits of father involvement, lifestyle factors in mental health, and organizational strategies to prevent burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue. He teaches units such as PSYC507 Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and PSYC528 Advanced Assessment and Intervention I. Key publications include Chernyak-Hai, L., Fein, E. C., Skinner, N., Knox, A. J., & Brown, J. (2021). Unpaid professional work at home and work-life interference among employees with care responsibilities. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 155(3), 356–374; Brown, J. (2023). Depression. In N. Beel, C. Chinchen, T. Machin & C. du Plessis (Eds.), Common Client Issues in Counselling: An Australian Perspective (University of Southern Queensland); and Brown, J. (2024). What Does a Healthy Work-Life Balance Look Like? Male Psychology: The Magazine, June 15. Conference presentations feature “Policies to Support Father Involvement in Parenting” at the International Conference on Policies and Parental Support (York St John University, UK, August 2022), “Engaging Fathers in Parenting Programs” at the Australian Fathering Researchers Symposium (Melbourne, May 2023), and “Men as Caregivers” at The Fathering Summit (Sydney, March 2024).