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.