Professor Damien Riggs

Professor

College of Education, Psychology and Social Work

place Social Science South
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

My research focuses on family diversity, and to date has included studies of public attitudes to family diversity, transgender parents, fertility preservation, heterosexual first time parents, surrogacy, foster care, and embryo donation for formation formation.

Qualifications
  • Bachelor Behaviour Sciences (Flinders)
  • Bachelor Social Sciences (Psychology Honours) (CSU)
  • Phd (Adelaide)
  • Masters Psychoanalysis (Victoria University)
Honours, awards and grants

2021 Sexual and Relationship Therapy Outstanding Article Award

2014 British Psychological Society, Book Prize for Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer psychology: An introduction

2012 Australian Psychological Society, Psychoanalytically-Oriented Psychology Interest Group Essay Prize

2011 VC Early Career Research Award, Flinders

2010 Early Career Researcher Award, APS

Key responsibilities

Topic Coordinator, SOAD 2001, Flinders University

Equal Opportunity and Diversity Officer, Flinders University

Deputy Chair, Human Research Ethics Committee B

Deputy Lead, Indigenous Partnerships, CEPSW

Topic coordinator
SOAD2010 Intersectionality and Social Work
Expert for media contact
Children/Youth
Gender studies
Reproduction
Surrogacy
Foster Care
Lesbian and Gay Parenting
Transgender people
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Media expertise
  • Children/Youth
  • Gender studies
  • Reproduction
  • Surrogacy
Interests
  • Foster Care
  • Lesbian and Gay Parenting
  • Transgender people
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