Barbara Gillam

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Barbara Jean Gillam FRSN FASSA is an Australian psychologist. She is Emeritus and Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales.

Gillam received a PhD from the Australian National University in 1964 for her thesis "Space perception with aniseikonic lenses: A study of stereoscopic vision". [1]

Her work has been in the area of perception and vision.

Awards and honours

Gillam was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985. [2]

She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1994 [3] and in 2017 became a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. [4]

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References

  1. Gillam, Barbara Jean (2018-05-03), Space perception with aniseikonic lenses : a study of stereoscopic vision , retrieved 17 September 2021
  2. "Barbara Gillam". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Archived from the original on 2021-09-17. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  3. "Professor Barbara Gillam FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 2019-10-14. Archived from the original on 2019-12-11. Retrieved 2021-09-17.
  4. "The Royal Society of New South Wales" (PDF). Government Gazette. 13. 2018-02-06.