Profile

Biography

• Bedford College, University of London 
  BSc in Psychology, 1971
• University of Warwick 
  PhD, 1974
• University of London 
  DSc, 1990

Held posts in the Psychology Departments of Aberdeen, Lancaster and Durham Universities. Also worked at Cambridge as a member of the staff of the Medical Research Council's Applied Psychology Unit. Research interests in the neuropsychology and experimental psychology of face perception. This has included functional neuroimaging and studies of people with different types of brain injury and psychiatric conditions.

Listed in ISI HighlyCited.com as one of the most-cited scientists in Psychology and Psychiatry. For citation information, see ResearcherID.com if you have access to ISI or Web of Science, otherwise Google Scholar.

Career

• University of Aberdeen
  Lecturer (1974 - 1976)
• University of Lancaster
  Lecturer, then Reader (1976 - 1989)
• University of Durham
  Professor (1989 - 1993)
• Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge
  Special Appointment, MRC Scientific Staff (1993 - 1997)
• University of York
  Professor of Neuropsychology (1997 - present)

Awards

• British Psychological Society
  Co-recipient of 1994 Cognitive Psychology Award (for A.W. Young, F. Newcombe, E.H.F. de Haan, M. Small and D.C. Hay. Face perception after brain injury: selective impairments affecting identity and expression. Brain, 1993, 116, 941-959).
• British Psychological Society
  Recipient of 1995 Presidents' Award (for distinguished contributions to psychological knowledge).
• University of Liege 
  Docteur Honoris Causa, 2000.
• British Academy 
  Elected Fellow, 2001.
  
• British Psychological Society
  Co-recipient of 2001 Book Award (for V. Bruce and A.W. Young. In the eye of the beholder: the science of face perception. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
• Academy of Social Sciences 
  Elected Academician, 2004.
• British Psychological Society 
  Honorary Fellow, 2005.
  
• British Psychological Society
  Co-recipient of 2007 Cognitive Psychology Award (for A.J. Calder and A.W. Young. Understanding the recognition of facial identity and facial expression. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2005, 6, 641-651).
• British Journal of Psychology 
  2011 special issue on ‘Person perception 25 years after Bruce and Young (1986)’. British Journal of Psychology, 2011, 102, 695-974.
  

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Year 1 & 2 core strand: Brain & Behaviour
• Year 3 advanced module: Face Perception

Research

Overview

Human neuropsychology and experimental psychology: face perception, recognition of emotion.

Research group(s)

• Adult Cognition and Neuropsychology

Available PhD research projects

Interested in supervising PhD research on face perception.  However, as I will probably be retiring in 2016 or 2017, I will only be taking PhD students for joint supervision with another member of staff from 2013 onwards.  Joint supervision is an arrangement I've already used for a number of students, and it can have advantages.

Publications

Selected publications

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External activities

Memberships

• Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences
  Academician
• British Academy
  Fellow
  Chair, Psychology Section (2011 - 2012)
  
• British Association for Advancement of Science
  President of Psychology Section (1997 - 1998)
• British Neuropsychological Society
  Member
  Chair (1998 - 2000)
• British Psychological Society
  Honorary Fellow and life member
• Experimental Psychology Society
  Member
  President (2004 - 2005)

Editorial duties

• British Journal of Psychology
  Action Editor
• Cognitive Neuropsychology
  Editorial Board