Speaking & Teaching
Plain spoken, actionable advice for keeping us healthy in the Digital World
Professor Campbell is an award-winning educator with more than 30 years of teaching excellence across undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Alongside his academic career, he has practised for over 20 years as a Registered Psychologist specialising in the mental health of children and adolescents. This extensive teaching and clinical experience has been the foundation for why Professor Campbell is sought out as a public speaker in Cyberpsychology.
His research and academic leadership has shaped highly applied teaching and consultancy to industry, government around ethical and effective technology adoption that focuses on harnessing both common and emerging technologies such as AI, VR/XR, video games, social networking platforms, smartphones, and wearable devices. In each engagement with students or other industry experts and the general public, Professor Campbell aims to empower the audience with a goal to improve mental health outcomes for individuals using technologies and for the improvement of digital service systems to better account for individual differences in technology.
Professor Campbell has led various human-computer interactive projects and delivered innovative, research-led curricula in psychology, cyberpsychology, and digital health, consistently integrating cutting-edge scholarship with real-world applications. His teaching is widely recognised for its clarity, relevance, and strong student engagement, as reflected in consistent outstanding student feedback and multiple teaching awards at The University of Sydney. Professor Campbell has co-authored two textbooks on Human Development with the renowned psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo and has taught the units HSBH1005 Human Development and BIDH3146 Cyberpsychology in Digital Health at The University of Sydney for more than two decades.
In recognition of his teaching excellence, he received the Australian Psychological Society Award for Outstanding Psychology Lecturer in NSW in 2017, alongside the former Faculty of Health Sciences (now the Sydney School of Health Sciences) Outstanding Lecturer Award for teaching in Health Sciences and Cyberpsychology. In 2018, he was appointed a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK).
Professor Campbell is also a highly regarded PhD and Masters supervisor and mentor, having graduated more than 15 PhD students as lead supervisor and over 30 Honours students. In 2023, he was awarded Supervisor of the Year by the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA) in the School of Medical Sciences, recognising his sustained excellence in higher degree research supervision and student development.