Date of Birth ll May l930.
Educated South Hampstead High School l941 - 48.
BSc (Hons Psychology Birkbeck College, University of London l952.
PhD Queen's University, Belfast l956.
MUniv (Honorary) University of Surrey l99l.
Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
British Psychological Society Hon Life Membership l996.
Chartered Psychologist.
l952 - 53 Research Assistant to Prof R B Cattell at the Laboratory of Personality Assessment and Group Behavior, University of Illinois
l953 - 62 Researcher Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Belfast.
Supported by Medical Research Council l953 - 59
l963 - 76 Lecturer in Psychology, University of Edinburgh
l976 - 96 Senior Lecturer
l985 - 86 Acting Head of Department
1993 - Member of the Board of Polygon Press, University of Edinburgh.
l994 - Member of the Press Committee, Edinburgh University Press.
My other work has been involved with the initial days of the Teaching Learning and Assessment Centre and with provisions for students with disabilities, where I was Convenor of the Committee for Students with Special Needs l988 - 95.
External Examiner for Undergraduate degrees: University of East London, St Andrews, Sheffield, Liverpool, Stirling, University of Ulster, Glamorgan and Loughborough.
External Examiner for the PhD degree: Oxford, Aberdeen, Glasgow,Queen's University Belfast, Surrey, Reading, Kent, Newcastle, Birmingham recently.
"Visual Rhetoric and Gender: the photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron"
BPS Psychology of Women Conference. University of Lancaster, l992.
"Women's Serious Games : the work of Jo Spence and Cindy Sherman"
BPS Scottish Branch. Edinburgh, l992.
"If we have Subjects, are we Monarchs?"
Ethics in Psychology Open University Psychology Society Conference. University of
Nottingham, l992.
(with Gerda Siann)
"Gender Differences in the Perception of Feminism and Feminists"
BPS Annual Conference. Blackpool, l993.
ESRC Fieldwork Methods Seminar arranged by Frank Bechhoffer On the Use of Still
Photographs, was stimulated by my book, Camera Culture.
Papers were presented by Dr Elizabeth Edwards of
the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, Mark Haworth-Booth of the Victoria and Albert Museum. I
spoke on "Gender Rhetoric".
Edinburgh University. February l993
"The Nemesis of Identity and Cindy Sherman's Miror Masks"
International Symposium on Masks, Masquerades & Carnival, Venice. February
l994.
"Power and Fear: photographing deviance"
Invited Lecture given a the BPS Conference. December l994.
"Fabric and Fascination: de Clerambault's photographs of veiled women"
Association of Art Historians 21st Annual Conference. Victoria & Albert Museum.
London, April l995.
"The Face of Death: visual representations in the age of mechanical reproduction"
BPS Social Psychology Invited Address. September l995.
"Re-telling Lesbian Identitites: beauty and other negotiations"
Masquerade & Gendered Identity Conference. Venice, February l996.
"The Eye and the Me: self-portraits of eminent photographers"
Philosophical Psychology, l989, 1, 295 - 3ll.
"Rembrandt's Impression Management"
Rembrandt by Himself, Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, l990.
"Mother, Father and Me : Our IQ"
The Psychologist, l992, 5, 309 - 3ll.
"On Being Ordinary"
Feminism and Psychology, l992, 5, 424 - 426.
"Facing the Social World : the self and others"
Skinlaser Today, l992, l, 5 - 10.
"'Making it' at a University : Academic and Social Development"
Special Education Needs Beyond l6... (Ed.) Alison Closs, Moray House
Publications, l993. (pp l80 - l87)
"Facing Julia Margaret Cameron"
History of Photography, l993, l7, ll5 - ll7.
"Les Femmes de Cameron: rhetorique visuelle d'identite sexuelle"
Bulletin de Psychologie, l993, 46, 580 - 588.
"A Lost Feminity"
The Life and Photographic Works of Margaret Watkins 1884 - 1969 (Ed.) Martha
McCulloch Street Level Photography Gallery Publication, l994.
"Reading Visual Rhetoric"
The Psychologist, l994, 7, 495 - 499.
"Making and Un-making Identities: a psychologist looks at art-work"
Qualitative Analysis in Psychology. (Ed.) Nicky Hayes, Erlbaum, in press.
Member of the BPS Scientific Affairs Board. l991 - 93
Member of the BPS Post-graduate Admissions Committee. l989 - 93
Member of the BPS Graduate Qualifications Accreditation Committee. l993 -
Committee Member of the Association of Heads of Psychology Departments. 1992 - 95
Member of the Board of Examiners ESRC Research Studentships Competition. l993 - 95
Member of the BPS Disciplinary Board. 1994 -
Member of the Residential Workshop to prepare:
Guidelines for Assessment of the PhD in Psychology and Related Disciplines
published by the BPS and The Universities' and Colleges' Staff Development Unit, l995.
Honorary Visual Archivist of the BPS. 1991 -
Patron of the Sutherland Trust - Scottish Institute of Human Relations.
Trustee Paintings in Hospitals, Scotland.
Member of the Combined Arts Committee of the Scottish Arts Council.
Keynote Speaker at the Fife Regional Council International Women's Day Conference, l993.
Regular broadcaster for BBC Radio Scotland and others on psychological and arts topics.
