Category: Member News

Following the autumn EPS committee meeting, we are delighted to announce the Committee’s award nominations for approval at the Annual General Meeting in January 2025.

The Committee seeks approval for the following nominations:

Election of the Fifty-Fourth Bartlett Lecturer
Dr Matthew Botvinick (Stanford University, United States of America)

Election of the Twenty-Fourth EPS Mid-Career Award Lecturer
Prof Elizabeth Jefferies (University of York)

Election of the Thirty-Third EPS Prize Lecturer
Dr Melissa Colloff (University of Birmingham)

Election of the Fourteenth Frith Prize Lecturer
Dr Connor Keating (University of Birmingham)

It with great sadness that we inform you that Professor John Richard Hanley, known to all as Rick, died on 23rd May following a prolonged illness.

Rick studied Psychology at the University of Dundee, followed by a PGCE at Jordanhill College, Glasgow, and a PhD at Lancaster. He held academic positions at the University of Northumbria and the University of Liverpool before being appointed Professor of Psychology at the University of Essex in 1998. He retired from Essex in 2020.

Rick’s research combined experimental psychology with cognitive neuropsychology. Particular interests were developmental dyslexia and dysgraphia in English and other languages, the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, recognising people from faces and voices, and semantic and biographical memory.

Rick was a regular presenter at EPS meetings and Honorary Treasurer from 2006 to 2011.

Rick will be mourned by family, including his two children and four grandchildren, friends and colleagues.

There is a tribute and comments board from the University of Essex here.

It with great sadness that we inform you that Professor David Warburton has recently passed away. David was a longstanding member of the EPS and will be greatly missed.

With sadness, the EPS has learnt that Philip Smith passed away on 12 May 2018. We have created a memorial page and we invite those who knew Philip to share memories with us.

 

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It is with great sadness that we record the following deaths:

Anne Treisman, February 2018. Anne was a recipient of the EPS Frederic Bartlett Prize award in 1987. Her Bartlett lecture can be found here:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02724988843000104

Peter Venables, April 2017. Peter was elected and served as Honorary Secretary of the EPS in 1965-1967 and President of the EPS in 1969-1970.

Annette Karmiloff-Smith, December 2016. Annette was a recipient of the EPS Frederic Bartlett Prize award in 2012.

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A new outreach/public engagement initiative that can be accessed by, and for, psychologists www.speakezee.org. The resource allows researchers to identify their areas of expertise and background.