Alexander Allan Innes Wedderburn

Alexander Allan Innes "Zander" Wedderburn
Born Alexander Allan Innes Wedderburn
(1935-05-09)9 May 1935
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Nationality British
Fields Psychology, Occupational psychology

Alexander Allan Innes "Zander" Wedderburn (born 9 May 1935) is a British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the Heriot-Watt University.

Life and career

Alexander Wedderburn was born in Edinburgh, the son of Alexander Archibald Innes Wedderburn and Ellen Innes Jeans. His father was a lawyer and auditor to the Court of Session. He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1959 and was awarded a Ph.D. by Heriot-Watt in 1992. Between 1968 and 2000 he lectured at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

After his retirement, Alexander Wedderburn went on to found publishing company Fledgling Press.

Contribution

Professor Wedderburn taught occupational psychology in the School of Management at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, for 32 years, and is a Professor Emeritus there.[1] Most of his teaching was in the area of making occupational psychology available to business students and engineers, and in his final three years he established a part-time M.Sc. in Occupational Psychology taught jointly with Strathclyde University.

His main research impact has been on hours of work and shiftwork, where he is an internationally known authority, building on a British Steel Corporation Fellowship in 1970-72.

His particular interest was in the interface between research and practice, with several measured practical interventions, a ten year stint as editor of the Bulletin of European Shiftwork Topics, and founding editor of the Shiftwork International Newsletter. He was President of the British Psychological Society in 2003/2004,[1] only the third occupational psychologist to achieve this in the past fifty years.

He is a fellow of the Working Time Society.

Works

Family

In 1960, he married Bridget Johnstone. The couple have four children and eight grandchildren.

References

  1. 1 2 "New President" (PDF). The Psychologist (British Psychological Society) 16 (4): 181. April 2003. Retrieved 24 August 2012.

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