Gregory Donoghue BSc, Grad.Dip.Crim, PhD

Gregory Donoghue is a lecturer, researcher and PhD candidate at the Science of Learning Research Centre, University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Greg is a former Victoria Police senior detective and child protection investigator who, for over 3 decades, has worked with child victims and adult perpetrators of serious crimes. Having spent those years working as ‘the ambulance at the base of the cliff’, he is now focussed on developing ‘the safety barrier at the top’ by researching human learning process, particularly those that enhance children’s wellbeing and minimise harm from dysfunctional childhood experiences. His research interests surround the social neuroscience of learning and how science, in general, can assist educators in teaching the whole child, rather than achieving only academic outcomes. When he is not working Greg also has two teenagers of his own, both of whom are available for long-term billeting – perhaps until they are 28 when their pre-frontal cortices have fully developed!