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Richie Poulton (Richie Graham Poulton) was born on 1962 in Christchurch, New Zealand, is a New Zealand psychologist (1962–2023). Discover Richie Poulton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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Birthplace Christchurch, New Zealand
Date of death 29 September, 2023
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Richie Graham Poulton (1962 – 29 September 2023) was a New Zealand psychologist and the director of the University of Otago's Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health & Development Research Unit, which runs the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (also known as the Dunedin Study).

1962

Richie Graham Poulton was born in Christchurch in 1962.

His father was a financier, his mother was a "stay-at-home mum".

He was one of two sons.

For Poulton's father's work, the family moved from Christchurch to Wellington, and then to Auckland.

Poulton's last four years of school were at Auckland Grammar School.

Although he enjoyed the academic parts of his schooling, he enjoyed sport more, playing cricket in the summer and rugby union in the winter.

He was a member of the school's senior rugby team the coach of which was Graham Henry, who eventually coached the New Zealand national rugby union team, the All Blacks.

On finishing high school, Poulton moved to Dunedin to attend the University of Otago.

There he received his master's degree in science and his postgraduate diploma in clinical psychology.

During his diploma studies, Poulton worked as an interviewer for the Dunedin Study, helping Terrie Moffitt assess 13-year-old study participants.

1988

After completing his degrees in 1988, Poulton went to England.

He lived in South London—an impoverished area—and worked as a clinical psychologist.

Burned out and broke after 18 months, he then went to Sydney, Australia, by which time his parents had moved there.

He worked for a year as a clinical psychologist and then enrolled for a Ph.D. at the University of New South Wales.

1995

Four years later, in 1995, he received his PhD.

Poulton then took a position as a clinical psychologist at Long Bay Jail, treating people at risk of suicide.

There he met his future wife, also a clinical psychologist working in another part of the jail.

After six months, he and his by-then wife moved to Dunedin for Poulton to become deputy director of the Dunedin Study.

2000

In 2000, Poulton became director of the Dunedin Study.

2004

In 2004, Poulton received the New Zealand Association of Scientists' Research Medal and the Health Research Council of New Zealand's Liley Medal for Excellence in Health Research.

2006

In 2006, he was appointed to a personal chair in the School of Medicine.

Poulton was married to clinical psychologist Sandhya Ramrakha, with whom he has a daughter.

In about February 2021, Poulton was diagnosed with salivary duct cancer.

Despite treatment, in about May 2021, it had metastasised and was incurable.

He died from the disease on 29 September 2023, at the age of 61.

2007

He was also a professor of psychology at the University of Otago, the 2007 founder and co-director of the National Centre for Lifecourse Research, the founder in 2011 of the Graduate Longitudinal Study, New Zealand, and the chief science adviser of the Ministry of Social Development in the New Zealand government.

2010

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2010, and was named a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science and health research, in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.

2014

He was named an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

2019

In 2019, he received the University of Otago's Distinguished Research Medal, while in 2022 he was appointed a distinguished professor at that university.

In November 2022 Poulton was awarded the Royal Society Te Apārangi's Rutherford Medal, along with the Dunedin Study and team members Murray Thomson, Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi.