Dean of Science
Professor Malcolm MacLeod
Malcolm MacLeod, BSc, PhD, CPsychol, FBPsS, FRSA is Dean of the Faculty of Science. He is an experimental psychologist whose primary research interests are concerned with remembering and forgetting. His most recent work has focussed upon the extent to which we have executive control over how particular memories come to mind and whether we can choose to forget those memories we might prefer not to be reminded. He has long-standing interests in memory malleability, the effects of ageing on memory, the relationship between memory and identity, and between memory and trauma. He completed his training at the University of Aberdeen under the supervision of Haydn Ellis, and was appointed to a Lectureship at St Andrews University in 1988, to a Readership in 2001, and to a Chair in Experimental Psychology in 2003. His research has attracted funding from the ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, RSE, and the British Academy. He has also been the recipient of a Royal Society of Edinburgh Support Fellowship (2001-2003), and a British Academy Research Readership (2003-2005). As well as continuing to be an active researcher and teacher, he has served in various senior academic roles including Head of the School of Psychology, and Pro-Dean of Science. He is currently an executive committee member of the UK Deans of Science group and is a Chartered Psychologist, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and of the British Psychological Society.