Alan Baddeley - Biography#

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)