Jolanda Jetten

Petronella Antonia Gerarda "Jolanda" Jetten (born 19 April 1970, Simpelveld) is a Dutch social psychologist and a professor at the University of Queensland. She won the Spearman Medal in 2004 and was inducted into the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2015. Her research concerns social identity, social groups, and group dynamics.

Career Jetten attended Radboud University Nijmegen and received a PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1997. She then moved to Australia to become a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Queensland in 1998. She remained there until 2001, when she relocated to the United Kingdom to join the faculty of the University of Exeter, where she was promoted from lecturer to professor in 2004. She returned to the University of Queensland in 2007 as a research fellow and is now a professor of social psychology. the transition of identity throughout life, and the implications of social identity on general health.

Jetten won the Spearman Medal, a mid-career award given annually by the British Psychological Society, in 2004.