Meet Rodd (1941-2025)
Introduction
“I am a retired academic with interests in philosophy and areas of psychology. I have taken a sceptical approach to all my studies which includes areas such as religion, philosophy of mind and consciousness, and philosophy of science. I have also so taught in the psychology of disability. My intellectual heroes include the Russian philosopher/psychologist L S Vygotsky (Vygotskii), J P Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, Spinoza and American philosophers John Dewey, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Donald Davidson and Arthur Danto.My hobbies include plant collection, fish keeping and travel. This site will mainly deal with controversial issues relating to religion (from and atheist perspective) and science.”
A Life of Curiosity: Rodd’s CV
Rodd worked as a clinical psychologist in the late 60’s through to the mid 1970’s1
- Late 1970’s Research Job on Labour issues Federal Government Australia
- Late 1970’s to 1990’s Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, School of Behavioural Sciences, Cumberland College of Health Sciences
- 1990’s Senior Lecturer, School of Community Health and Aboriginal Health (Yoroang Garang), Faculty of Health Sciences, University ofSydney
- 1995- 2000 Head, School of Community Health and Aboriginal Health (Yoroang Garang), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney
- 2000- 2019 Senior Lecturer, Discipline of Rehabilitation Counselling, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. Currently Honorary Senior Lecturer
- 2014-2025 Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Education for Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University
Education
- Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts (psychology),
- SYD Master of Arts SYD (1970) in Philosophy
- Doctor of Philosophy SYD (1994) in Philosophy: Thesis, ‘Human Consciousness and the Crisis in Psychological Science: A Vygotskiian Perspective’.
Teaching at university
- History and Philosophy of Sciences
- Rehabilitation: Drug & Alcohol– Disability Studies
- Rehabilitation of Public Offenders
- L S Vygotsky, his philosophy and psychology
Rodd’s Interests
Rodd was a keen gardener and had a great interest in collecting succulents, orchids, and anything else that captured his fancy. He also kept a collection of fancy goldfish and had collected all varieties for decades.
Publications
Trede, Franziska & Higgs, Joy & Rothwell, Rodd. (2008). Critical Transformative Dialogues: A Research Method Beyond the Fusions of Horizons. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research. 10.
Rothwell Rodd (2019) “The place of wisdom in clinical practice; a Vygotskian perspective. In ‘Practice wisdom: Values and Interpretations’, Higgs J (Ed.) Brill, The Netherlands