- Born on 23 September 1953 in Crewe, Cheshire.
- Lived in Haslington until 1961.
- From 1961 to 1972, I lived in Great Hale, a small village 7 miles from Sleaford in Lincolnshire.
- Married September 2005 in Zhangjiajie, China to a Chinese national who has a 9 year old son.
- Education (Degrees):
- 1972 to 1975 BA Honours Degree in Psychology (University College of North Wales, Bangor [now part of University of Wales].)
- 1975 to 1976 MSc in Mathematical Psychology (University of Stirling): Dissertation Topic: Modelling memory for serially-ordered material.
- 1976 to 1978 PhD in Psychology (University of Birmingham) awarded 1984 after a long delay in writing up, brought about by pressures of work Thesis Topic: Memory for serially ordered material in human short term memory.
- Employment:
- 1978 to 1981 Demonstrator and then Lecturer in Psychology Department at University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- 1981 to 1986 Senior Scientific Officer at Nuffield Child Psychology and Psychiatry Unit, Newcastle Children's Hospital.
- 1986 to 2001 Lecturer in Mathematical psychology at University of Leicester, Department of Psychiatry.
- Took Early Retirement in 2001.
- Relevant Expertise and Work Experience in Psychology and Related Areas
- Lectured and published articles and book chapters concerning Research Methods and Statistics within:
- Experimental Psychology
- Child Psychiatry and Psychology
- Complementary Medicine
- Published articles within the following areas of psychology:
- Psychophysics
- Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Cognitive Psychology
- Experimental Psychology
- Sociobiology and Comparative Psychology
- Lecture Courses given on:
- Psychophysics
- Psychometrics
- Research Methods in Psychology and Psychiatry
- Statistics in Psychology and Psychiatry
- Mathematical Psychology
- The Theoretical Bases of Research Methods within the Human Sciences
- The Theoretical and Mathematical Bases of Psychological Measurement
- The Psychology of Music
- Informal Logic and Critical Thinking within Psychology
- Lectured and published articles and book chapters concerning Research Methods and Statistics within:
- Particularly Notable Expertise
- Mathematical Psychology and Mathematical Modelling within Psychology
- Measurement Theory in Psychology
- Research Methods and their underlying Theoretical Bases in Psychology
- Statistical Methods, both basic and advanced, in Psychology and Psychiatry
- Critical Thinking, Informal Logic, and Argumentation Theory within Psychology and Psychiatry
- Other achievements and Interests
- Speaker of Chinese (Mandarin or, to be more correct, Pǔtōnghuà)
- Reading and Writing Fiction (mostly Science Fiction)
- Listening and Composing, very amateurly, what is commonly known as "Classical Music"
- Walking
- Photography
- Drawing and Watercolour Painting
- Mathematical Games and Recreational (Mathematical) Puzzles