I am a Professor in the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney, Australia.
In my research, I focus on all aspects of human motivation and emotion, but mostly on:
(1) autonomy-supportive teaching (e.g., Supporting students' motivation; Routledge, 2023).
(2) agency and agentic engagement
(3) neuroscience of intrinsic motivation
I have authored 4 books, edited 3 books, and published 86 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Educational Psychology and American Psychologist.
I served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Motivation and Emotion, 2011-2017.