Joanne Earl

<p>Dr Joanne (Jo) Earl, Ph.D. is an Honorary Professor at UNSW in Sydney, Australia, where she also completed her Masters and Ph.D. in Psychology. She is a Registered as a Psychologist in Australia, endorsed as an Organisational Psychologist and Recognised as a Supervisor. She has graduated more than 500 postgraduate students in Psychology across Professional Psychology and Organisational Psychology Programs. Together with her students, she has designed three psychometric assessments relating to retirement planning, six different online training programs and interventions to promote retirement planning and discovered several new predictors of retirement planning.</p> <br> <p>Dr Jo Earl’s psychological practise and program of research focuses on career development across the lifespan with a special emphasis on retirement planning and adjustment. You can find her research articles and book chapters on Google Scholar with her most recent contributions including a chapter on Retirement Planning in the Oxford Handbook of Retirement and an article in Work, Aging and Retirement. She Earl has received three Australian Research Council grants, all focused on retirement planning and adjustment.</p> <br> <p>Dr Jo Earl regularly engages in community outreach programs, including articles in the Australian Financial Review, appearing on SBS, community podcasts and talkback radio. Her previous advisory roles have included the NSW Ministerial Advisory Council on Ageing, ASIC’s Research Steering Committee and she was recently appointed to the COTA NSW advisory research round table.</p> <br> <p>Taking a dose of her own medicine, Jo has recently retired from full-time academia to concentrate on putting her research into practise and expanding her professional practise. Jo offers services to individuals planning for retirement, those in retirement, as well as designing resources for organisations. You can find more details on this vital work on her website (linked above).</p>