My first degree was in natural Sciences (Physics) at the University of Cambridge, England. This was followed by an MSc in Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex. I returned to Cambridge to the MRC Applied Psychology Unit to do a PhD on human short-term memory after which I held research posts at Sussex, Stirling, and Cambridge (MRCAPU again). I took up a lecturing post at Manchester University in 1979 and moved to a Chair in Psychology at Lancaster University in 1991. I am currently a Professor of Psychology at the University of York. My main field of research is human memory and cognition using experimental, developmental and modelling approaches. Together with Neil Burgess of University College, London I received the British Psychological Society Award for Cognitive Psychology in 1993. I received the BPS President's Award in 2003. I was a member of the Psychology Panel of the UK Higher Education Funding Council in the 1996 and 2001 Research Assessment Exercises
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