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Alan Baddeley
Emeritus Professor

Biography

  • University College London
    BA (1956)
  • Princeton University
    MA (1957)
  • Cambridge University
    PhD (1962)

I graduated in psychology from UCL, and after an MA at Princeton, joined the MRC Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, where I completed a PhD. After several years on the scientific staff of the APU I moved to the U of Sussex in Experimental Psychology, then to a chair at Stirling university, before returning to the APU as Director. Some 21 years later I moved to Bristol University for 8 years before joining the York department in 2003.

My interests are in human memory, neuropsychology and in the practical application of cognitive psychology.

Career

  • MRC Applied Psychology Unit
    Scientific staff (1958 - 1967)
  • University of Sussex
    Lecturer, later Reader (1967 - 1972)
  • University of Stirling
    Professor of Psychology (1972 - 1974)
  • MRC Applied Psychology Unit
    Director (1974 - 1995)
  • Churchill College (Cambridge)
    Senior Research Fellow (1987 - 1995)
  • University of Cambridge
    Honorary Professor of Cognitive Psychology (1991 - 1995)
  • University of Bristol
    Professor of Psychology (1995 - 2003)
  • University of York
    Professor of Psychology (2003 - present)

Contact details

Alan Baddeley
Professor
Department of Psychology
Room PS/C126

Tel: 01904 322882