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LEADING ACADEMIC TO HEAD SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY AT UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER
Posted on 08/04/2008
P. Klein
A leading academic, who has previously worked with the US multinational ITT as a specialist in human-computer interaction, is to join the University of Leicester as the new Head of the School of Psychology.
Professor Lansdale joins the University of Leicester from the Division of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. He will take up the post on 1st May 2008.
On his appointment Professor Lansdale said: “This is a very exciting time to join the University of Leicester, increasingly acknowledged for its teaching and research. I am especially looking forward to working with excellent international researchers in the School, and developing further the brand of psychology for which it has a well-earned reputation.”
Born and educated in Birmingham, Professor Lansdale went to Trinity College Cambridge in 1972 to read Natural Sciences. He then went on to specialise in Experimental Psychology and graduated in 1975; staying there to undertake a PhD and Postdoctoral Research on mathematical models of memory. He then moved to the US multinational, ITT, as a specialist in human-computer interaction until moving to Loughborough University in 1984, where he was promoted to a personal chair for research on memory for location.
He is also known for research on how office workers use their messy desks as a memory aid, and its implications for the design of future systems. This latter work was widely covered in the international media and still results in a great deal of media interest; such as appearances in Radio 4’s live programme ‘Sharpen Your Memory’.
Professor Lansdale’s current research includes an EPSRC-funded project looking at how understanding memory performance with pictures can be applied to the design of digitized picture and medical databases. With civil engineers and architects, he is involved in a multi-disciplinary project on the design of research buildings for 21st Century Universities; funded by HEFCE. He also has an historical interest in the organizational psychology of World War 1 armies and the generals commanding them; currently supervising a PhD student in the area of how innovations and expertise evolved within, and were assimilated by, the British Army.
Professor Lansdale is co-editor of the journal British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology.