Biography
Dr Denise Dillon is the Head of Academic Group Psychology and Education at the Singapore campus of James Cook University (JCU) with years of experience in South-East Asia accrued since moving to Singapore in May 2008. Denise has a long-standing interest in the ways that people interact with and respond to the natural environment, and completed her PhD in psychology with a sociolinguistic focus on how people discuss and think about values in the context of World Heritage protected areas. At JCU, Denise teaches into Environmental Psychology and has supervised several final-year student projects drawing on the Kaplans' Attention Restoration Theory and Wilson's biophilia hypothesis.

She is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Tropical Psychology, a full member of the Singapore Psychological Society (SPS), and a member of the Association for the Study of Literature & Environment (ASLE).

Denise's research interests include biophilia/biophobia and technobiophilia, attention restoration, and human-environment and human-nonhuman animal interactions.