Graham B Stead, Ph. D.
 Title: Professor
 Dept: Curriculum & Foundations
 Office: JH 356
 Phone: 216-687-4591
 Email: G.B.STEAD@csuohio.edu
 Address: 2121 Euclid Ave. JH 356, Cleveland, OH 44115

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Research Keywords:
Career psychology, Vocational psychology, Quantitative research, Meta-Analysis, Social constructionism, Critical psychology, Psychometrics.
 
Education:
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Port Elizabeth, 1989
M.A., Psychology, University of Port Elizabeth, 1984
M.A., Counseling Psychology, cum laude, Vista University, 2004
B.A. (Honors), Psychology, University of Port Elizabeth, 1979
Higher Education Diploma, Education, University of Port Elizabeth, 1980
 
Brief Bio:
Dr. Graham Stead is Full Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Foundations. He was formerly Director of Doctoral Studies in the College of Education and Human Services (2010 - 2016) and Director of Student Learning and Assessment in the Office of Academic Planning (2017 - 2023). He completed his Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He has two Master's degrees in Psychology and was registered as a Counseling Psychologist and as a Research Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. He also completed a Higher Education Diploma (post-grad). He was a high school teacher and counselor for 5 years and thereafter was a professor of psychology and taught for 20 years at two South African universities, primarily in quantitative and qualitative research designs, statistics, and career education and career psychology.

He has published over 70 articles and book chapters and presented over 80 papers in South
Africa, the USA, Canada, Australia, Greece, and Portugal. He has also co-edited three editions of Career Psychology in the South African Context (1999, 2006, 2017) and co-authored  Research: Planning, Designing and Reporting (2013), Planning, Designing and Reporting Research (2001), and X-kit Undergraduate Statistics for the Social Sciences (2005). He is a consulting editor for  the Journal of Career Development, the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, and the Journal of Psychology in Africa.
 
Research Interests:
Career Education, Career Psychology, Cultural and Cross-cultural Research, Research Methods (quantitative and qualitative), Statistics, International Psychology, Social Constructionism, Discourse Analysis.
 
Teaching Areas:
Research Methodology, Statistics, Advanced Career Development.
 
Professional Affiliations:
American Psychological Association.
Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) of APA.

Society for Vocational Psychology.

National Career Development Association.

Registered as a Counseling Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa since 2004.

Registered as a Research Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa since 1992.
 
Professional Experience:
Director of Student Learning and Assessment in the Office of Academic Planning at CSU (2017 - present).
Director of Doctoral Studies in the College of Education and Human Services at CSU (2010 - 2016). Taught at two South African universities and two South African high schools.
 
University Service:
2007- 2023 Member of the Institutional Review Board.

2010-2016 Chair of the COEHS Doctoral Studies Committee.

2006-2010  Curriculum and Foundations representative to the COEHS Doctoral Studies Committee.

2006  Graduate Council's appointee to the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Program Review Committee for the program review of English, Liberal Studies, and Religious Studies.

2006-2009 Curriculum and Foundations EDB601 liaison to Special Education.

2005-2022 Serving as a quantitative and qualitative methodologist for the Doctoral Studies program in the College of Education at Cleveland State University.

2005-2006 Member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Urban School of collaboration at Cleveland State University.

2005-2025 Graduate faculty member (Level I).
 
Professional Service:
Consulting Editor Positions

2012-2023  Appointed to the editorial board of the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance

2006-2025  Appointed as a consulting editor for the Journal of Psychology in Africa.

2006-2023  Appointed as a consulting editor for the Journal of Career Development.

2007-2013  Appointed to the editorial board of The Career Development Quarterly.

2004-2011  Appointed as a consulting editor for the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, which is a British Psychological Society journal.

2002-2005  Appointed as a consulting editor for the International Careers Journal.

Higher Learning Commission

2019-2022. Peer Reviewer for Standard and Open Pathways.

Web Master

2005 - 2012  Webmaster of the Society for Vocational Psychology (which is a section of Division 17, Counseling Psychology) of the American Psychological Association
Liaison

1999-2004 South Africa liaison for Division 52, International Psychology, American Psychological Association.