Vale Reverend Dr Warren Bartlett

We sadly announce the passing of the Reverend Dr Warren Keith Bartlett OAM BA (Hons) BSc BD PhD (Melb), on 17 March 2025.

The Reverend Dr Warren Keith Bartlett was a member of the Department of Psychology at the University of Melbourne for many years and served as its Head from 1978-1983. He is warmly remembered as an astute Head and an enthusiastic teacher of research methods and statistics during his tenure in the department, as well as the psychology of religion .

He also made a significant contribution to the University community as Associate Dean (1975-1980) and then Deputy Dean in the early 1980s in the Faculty of Arts, and as a member of the Queen’s and St Hilda’s College Councils (1970-1985). Bookending his time as an academic member of the School were substantial periods of service to the Methodist Church (up to 1977), followed by the Uniting Church (from 1977), including a term as Moderator of the Uniting Church from 1994-1997.

Warren completed his PhD on the application of stochastic models to group processes under the supervision of Professor Oscar Oeser, the founding professor and head of the School. He supervised a number of PhD students, including Professor Pip Pattison. She recalls her debt to Warren as an encouraging and supportive supervisor: “Warren not only guided successful completion of my Honours and PhD projects but also helped me to expand my knowledge and skills in a myriad of other ways and especially to have the courage to embrace challenge. I feel very fortunate to have known Warren and to have been his student.”