Rate My Professor Miles Bore

Associate Professor Miles Bore earned his PhD in 2002 and Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) Honours from the University of Newcastle. Currently serving as an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Psychology, School of Science, College of Engineering, Science and Environment at the University of Newcastle, he retired from full-time duties in July 2019 and holds a Conjoint Associate Professor position. His career includes roles as Lecturer from 2002 to 2009, Senior Lecturer from 2010, Head of the School of Psychology from January 2012 to July 2013, Deputy Head of School from 2016 to 2018, Program Convenor for the Bachelor of Psychology from 2009 to 2011, and Deputy Chair of the University's Human Research Ethics Committee from 2007 to 2008.

Bore specializes in personality, morality, and psychometrics. He has developed psychometric instruments for medical student selection, including the Personal Qualities Assessment (PQA), used commercially in Australia, the UK, and Sweden for selecting applicants to medicine and allied health degrees. His research explores relationships between personality and psychological illness and well-being, individual differences in diversity related to sex, gender, and sexuality, and questionnaire design and analysis for personality and values. He collaborates with the Faculty of Health at UNSW and international researchers in Sweden, the UK, and Japan, and participates in the NSW Child Development Study investigating links between childhood personality and mental health. Notable publications include his book, "The Psychology of Morality: Libertarian and Communitarian Moral Orientations and a Dissonance Model of Moral Decision Making" (2008); the chapter "Predicting Empathy in Medical Students and Doctors" (2014, with Munro and Powis); "Personality determinants of success in medical school & beyond: 'Steady, sane and nice'" (2008, with Munro and Powis); and journal articles such as "Is the UCAT appropriate for selecting undergraduate medical students?" (2021, with Powis), "Why is it so hard to consider personal qualities when selecting medical students?" (2019, with Powis and Eley), "Item Response Theory Analysis of the Big Five Questionnaire for Children-Short Form (BFC-SF): A Self-Report Measure of Personality in Children Aged 11–12 Years" (2020, with Laurens et al.), and "In-course and career outcomes predicted by medical school selection procedures based on personal qualities" (2020, with Powis et al.).