Joseph Boden

Joseph Boden

Professor and Director of the Christchurch Health and Development Study, University of Otago Christchurch

Professor Joseph Boden is the Director of the Christchurch Health and Development Study (CHDS), a longitudinal study of over 1000 people born in Christchurch New Zealand in mid-1977, and followed to the present day.

Originally trained as an experimental social psychologist, he received his PhD from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio in 1995, and later was a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Plymouth (UK) and the University of Southern Queensland (Australia). Professor Boden joined the CHDS as a Research Fellow in 2005, and was appointed Director in August 2019.