Linda McMullen appointed Acting Vice-Dean, Social Sciences

Linda McMullen (Professor, Department of Psychology) has been appointed Acting Vice-Dean, Social Sciences for an 11-month period, effective August 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. Harley Dickinson, Vice-Dean Social Sciences, has been seconded to a senior administrative position in the Office of the Vice-President Research during this time.

McMullen joined the University of Saskatchewan in 1980 as lecturer in the Department of Psychology. She was promoted to full professor in 1996. McMullen graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with an MA in clinical psychology. She received a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Saskatchewan in 1981, and became a registered psychologist with the Saskatchewan Psychological Association in 1984. McMullen has served on many university and college committees. She was Head of the Department of Psychology from 1997–2002 and then again from 2003–2006, and was elected by faculty as a member of the University of Saskatchewan Board of Governors in 2004 and again in 2009. She served as a member of the Land and Facilities Committee and Audit Committee until 2010.

McMullen’s areas of research are women and depression, metaphor and narrative, and discourse analysis, and she specializes in performing qualitative research. Her current research focuses on how language shapes, and is shaped by, social and cultural contexts.

Since January 2011, McMullen has been the University’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Leader. In that role, she has served as the SSHRC presence on campus and in the community to promote achievements and conduct promotional activities to support Tri-Council goals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association and has received the Jillings Award from the Saskatchewan Psychological Association for outstanding and longstanding service to the profession. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.