Malcolm Jeeves
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Prof Malcolm Jeeves CBE FRSE is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, and was formerly President of The Royal Society of Edinburgh
. He established the Department of Psychology at St. Andrews University and his research interests centre around cognitive psychology and neuropsychology.
He has received Honorary Degrees from Edinburgh University, Stirling University, and St Andrews University.
Amongst his various medals and prizes are the Kenneth Craik Prize in Experimental Psychology at Cambridge, the Abbie Medal in Anatomy at Adelaide University in Australia, and the Cairns Medal of the Society of Neurologists and Neurosurgeons of South Australia. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science of Britain, of the British Psychological Society, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His main scientific research interests are in neuropsychology; he was Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal Neuropsychologia
in the 1990s.
Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity, operating on a wholly independent and non-party-political basis and providing public benefit throughout Scotland...
. He established the Department of Psychology at St. Andrews University and his research interests centre around cognitive psychology and neuropsychology.
Career
- Educated at the University of CambridgeUniversity of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
where he won an exhibition in Natural Sciences in 1945. - 1945-1948 he served as an infantry officer in Germany with the 1st Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters , part of the 'Desert Rats'.
- Undergraduate study and postgraduate research at Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD,
- 1955 Advanced Fellowship at Harvard,
- 1956 appointed lecturer in psychology at the University of LeedsUniversity of LeedsThe University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...
- 1959 Foundation Professor of Psychology at Adelaide University.
- 1969 Foundation Professor of Psychology at St. Andrews University
- 1980-1984 Vice-Principal
- 1992 Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to science and to psychology in Britain.
- 1996-1999 President of the Royal Society of EdinburghRoyal Society of EdinburghThe Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity, operating on a wholly independent and non-party-political basis and providing public benefit throughout Scotland...
He has received Honorary Degrees from Edinburgh University, Stirling University, and St Andrews University.
Amongst his various medals and prizes are the Kenneth Craik Prize in Experimental Psychology at Cambridge, the Abbie Medal in Anatomy at Adelaide University in Australia, and the Cairns Medal of the Society of Neurologists and Neurosurgeons of South Australia. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science of Britain, of the British Psychological Society, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His main scientific research interests are in neuropsychology; he was Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal Neuropsychologia
Neuropsychologia
Neuropsychologia is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that focuses on cognitive neuroscience. It was established in 1963, and is published by Elsevier....
in the 1990s.
Psychology
- Thinking in Structures (with Z. P. Dienes) - translated into French, German, Italian, Hungarian, Spanish, Japanese
- Effects of Structural Relations upon Transfer (with Z. P. Dienes) - translated into French, German, Italian
- Experimental Psychology: an Introduction for Biologists - translated into French
- Analysis of Structural Learning (with G. B. Greer)
- Callosal Agenesis (with M. Lassonde)
Science and Christian Belief
- The Scientific Enterprise and Christian Faith 1968
- Psychology and Christianity: The View Both Ways 1976
- Free to be Different (with R. J. Berry and D. Atkinson) 1984
- Psychology through the Eyes of Faith (with D. Myers) 1987
- Human Nature at the Millennium 1997
- Science, Life and Christian Belief (with R. J. Berry) 1998
- Psychology through the Eyes of Faith: revised and updated (with D. Myers) 2002
- From Cells to Souls-and Beyond (2003)
- Neuroscience, Psychology, and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature (with Warren S. BrownWarren S. BrownWarren S. Brown is director of the Lee Edward Travis Research Institute at the Fuller Theological Seminary and Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Psychology. He is also a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute. Dr. Brown received his doctorate in Experimental Physiological...
) 2009
External links
- His CiS Lectures at Trinity College, CambridgeTrinity College, CambridgeTrinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
2000 - The Jeeves Lectures named in his honour at the University of St. Andrews
- 'Psychologising and Neurologoising about Religion: Facts, Fallacies and the Future', the 2008 Boyle LectureBoyle LecturesThe Boyle Lectures were named after Robert Boyle, a prominent English/Irish natural philosopher of the 17th century. Boyle endowed a series of lectures in his will, which were designed as a forum where prominent academics could discuss the existence of God....
given by Malcolm Jeeves, St. Mary-le-Bow church, 23 January 2008 (available for download as text, audio or video files).