Levente Orban
Lecturer
Education
BA (KUC, Canada), PhD (uOttawa, Canada), PDF (UBC, Canada)
Email: levente.orban@usp.ac.fj
Tel.: +679 924-3957
Office: CELT 205
Research Area
Health Psychology, Precision Mental Health
Bio
Levente L. Orban formed the Precision Mental Health research group in the School of Law and Social Sciences at the University of the South Pacific where he has been member of the faculty since 2022. He received a B.A.A (Hons.) degree from Kwantlen University College in 2008, followed by a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from University of Ottawa in 2014. Before joining USP, he was a research associate at University of British Columbia in the Zoology department, and Adjunct Professor at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. His research interests focus on biomarker based identification and monitoring of psychological conditions. The work uses the Research Domain of Criteria framework to conceptualize mental health, and contextualizes disease processes from an evolutionary psychology perspective.
Recent Publications
- Orbán, LL (2024). Principles to guide research and policy on psychological well-being in remote island developing states in the South Pacific. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1325292. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1325292
- Orbán, LL (2023). Using version control to document genuine effort in written assignments: a protocol with examples for universities. Frontiers in Education, 8, 1169938. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1169938
Courses Taught
- Health Psychology
- Cross-Cultural Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology
Postgraduate supervision
- Accepting MA & PhD students
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