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DoctorJoseph Watts

Senior Lecturer Above the Bar

School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing

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  • Senior Lecturer Above the Bar
    School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
  • +6433693173 (Work)
  • Ann Ballin 711

SERVICE & LEADERSHIP

  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION
    Conference (opens in a new tab)⁠
    29 Nov 2025 - 30 Nov 2025
    2025 New Zealand Association for the Study of Religion Conference
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  • GRANT APPLICATION ASSESSMENT
    Needs assessment
    1 Jan 2025
    John Templeton Foundation Grant
  • EDITORIAL
    Religion, Brain and Behavior
    5 Apr 2024
  • BOOK PROPOSAL REVIEWING OR REFEREEING
    Morality and the Gods
    1 Jan 2024
  • OFFICE HELD
    Acting Head
    1 Jan 2023
    Acting Head, University of Otago
  • OFFICE HELD
    President (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2023 - 1 Dec 2025
    New Zealand Association for the Study of Religion
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  • CONFERENCE REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    8th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion
    1 Jan 2022
    Anonymous peer review
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Early Career Researchers Advancement Group
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2024
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    School of Social Science Research Committee
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2024
    Member
  • OFFICE HELD
    Vice-president, New Zealand Association for the Study of Religion
    1 Jul 2020 - 31 Dec 2022
  • CONFERENCE REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    2020 International Association for the History of Religion Congress
    1 Jan 2020
    Anonymous peer review
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Centre for Research on Evolution, Belief and Behaviour, University of Otago (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2024
    One of the founding members
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  • GRANT APPLICATION ASSESSMENT
    Needs assessment
    1 Jan 2020
    ForBio Research School in Biosystematics
  • OFFICE HELD
    Postgraduate Student Coordinator
    1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023
    Postgraduate Student Coordinator, University of Otago
  • BROADCAST INTERVIEW
    Radio New Zealand
    1 Jan 2019
    Emotion semantics across world cultures
  • CONFERENCE REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Applications in Cultural Evolution: Arts, Languages, Technologies Conference
    1 Jan 2018
    Anonymous peer review
  • GRANT APPLICATION ASSESSMENT
    Needs assessment
    1 Jan 2017
    John Templeton Foundation Grant
  • BROADCAST INTERVIEW
    CBC Radio (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2016
    Human sacrifice helped build complex civilizations
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  • EDITORIAL
    Database of Religious History (opens in a new tab)⁠
    1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2017
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  • BROADCAST INTERVIEW
    Radio New Zealand
    1 Jan 2016
    The History of Human Sacrifice