title: Barbara Gillam
text: # Barbara Gillam
  
  Barbara Jean Gillam FRSN FASSA is an Australian psychologist. She is Emeritus and Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales.
  
  Gillam received a PhD from the Australian National University in 1964 for her thesis "Space perception with aniseikonic lenses: A study of stereoscopic vision".
  
  Her work has been in the area of perception and vision.
  
  ## Awards and honours
  
  Gillam was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985.
  
  She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1994 and in 2017 became a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
  
  