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Dr. Brian R. Little lectures in the Department
of Psychology at Harvard
University and is an Affiliated Scholar at the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He holds
a joint position as Distinguished Research Professor in Psychology
at Carleton
University.
Dr. Little received his early education in British Columbia and
his Ph.D. in psychology from the University
of California at Berkeley and has taught at Oxford, Carleton
and Harvard, among other universities.
He has received numerous honors both for his teaching and research.
While at Carleton, he was awarded the 3M Fellowship, Canada's highest
award for university teaching. He was the inaugural recipient of
the Royal Bank Faculty Fellowship in University Teaching at McGill
University and at Harvard was elected one of the "Favorite
Professors" of the Class of 2003.
Dr. Little's research has been recognized by his election to Fellowships
in the Canadian Psychological Association,
the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study at Harvard and as G. Stanley Hall Lecturer on
two occasions for the American
Psychological Association.
He pioneered the study of "Personal
Projects Analysis" as an approach to the study of human
personality and continues an active program of research at both
Carleton and with the Harvard Personal Projects Interest Collaboratory
(HAPPI).
His research lies at the intersection of personality, life-span
developmental, cultural and health psychology, with a particular
emphasis upon the factors enhancing human flourishing.
Believing that a prime function of scholarly research is to have
impact beyond the confines of the university, Dr. Little has given
well over five hundred keynote
presentations to groups in health, education, technological
and financial services.
He still aspires to play for the Toronto Raptors and has a personal
project of growing a foot and a half in the next two years.
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