User:Ddstretch


 * 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


 * 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


 * 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