Lynette Tippett

Lynette Joy Tippett is a New Zealand professor of psychology at the University of Auckland, specialising in neurodegenerative diseases.

Academic career
Tippett has a Master's degree in psychology, a Diploma in Clinical Psychology and a doctorate, all from the University of Auckland. Tippett completed her PhD titled Producing mental pictures: a study of visual-image generation processes in brain-lesioned patients in 1991. Tippett then undertook postdoctoral training at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. Returning to New Zealand, she joined the faculty of the University of Auckland. She was promoted to full professor. Tippett has taught neuropsychology for more than 30 years, and supervised more than 80 graduate students. Tippett's research focuses on the psychosocial, emotional and cognitive effects of the brain changes that take place in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia and Parkinson's disease, and also due to traumatic brain injury.

Tippett is associate director of the Centre for Brain Research, national director of the Dementia Prevention Research Clinics, and co-director of the Auckland Dementia Prevention Research Clinic. She is a member of the Alzheimer's New Zealand Clinical and Scientific Advisory Board.

Awards and honours
In the 2023 King's Birthday and Coronation Honours, Tippett was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to neuropsychology and people with dementia.