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Andy J. Wills

Education

1998: Ph.D., Cambridge University, Cambridge University (UK), Psychology
1993: B.Sc., University of Southampton, University of Southampton (UK), Psychology

Employment

2006 - 2010: Associate Professor, School of Psychology, University of Exeter (UK)
2005 - 2006: Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Exeter (UK)
2000 - 2005: Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Exeter (UK)
1998 - 2000: Junior Research Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (UK)
1998 - 1998: Post-doc., Cambridge University (UK), Experimental Psychology

Teaching experience

2000 - 2009: UG Level 1 statistics
2000 - 2009: UG Level 2 cognitive psychology / cognitive neuroscience                

Managerial experience

2006 - 2009: Director of Teaching; School Executive Group
2004 - 2006: Deputy Director of Undergraduate Studies
2001 - 2004: Exams officer

Membership of professional bodies

Learned societiesProfessional bodies

Funding received

Grants
2010 - 2012: "The Exeter Science Exchange", £489,676, EPSRC.
2008 - 2010: “Neuroscience of human associative learning”, £13,734, British Council.
2006 - 2007: “Unsupervised categorization: Analytic and non-analytic processes”, £69,161, ESRC.
2005 - 2007: “From associations to rules”, EURO 1,300,000, European Commission.
2002 - 2004: “Acquisition of polymorphous categories”, £81,316, BBSRC.
1998 - 1999: “Decision mechanisms in categorization”, £40,000, ESRC.

Fellowships
2009 - 2010: Outward Mobility Academic Fellowship, University of Exeter.
2005 - 2005: Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship, National University of Singapore. August 2005.

Studentships
2003 - 2006: “Processes of free classification”, ESRC +3 Ph.D., Oct 1, 2003 to Oct 1, 2006.
2001 - 2004: “Feature emergence in categorization”, ESRC Ph.D., Oct 1, 2001 to Oct 1, 2004.

Ph.D. students supervised

Ph. D rec'dNameTopicFundingMy Role
Henrietta RobertsInhibition and ruminationU. ExeterJoint
Susan ChapmanAssociative learning in bipolar disorderU. ExeterJoint
2006Fraser MiltonCategory constructionESRCPrimary
2005Alice WelhamCategorizationESRCPrimary
2004Kazuhiro GotoComparative visual cognitionSelf-fundedJoint

Invited research lectures

2009: National University Singapore.
2009: New York University.
2008: University of Swansea.
2007: MIRCE Academy, Exeter.
2006: Indiana University.
2005: Max Planck Biological Cybernetics unit, Tubigen.
2005: National University of Singapore.
2004: Human Associative Learning Symposium, Belgium.
2004: Royal Holloway.
2002: ESRC funded “Categorisation” symposium, London.
2001: Bristol University.
1998: Warwick University.
1998: Rutgers University.
1997: Southampton University.

Conference presentations

2009: Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam.
2009: Psychonomic Society, Boston.
2007: Cognitive Science Society, Nashville.
2007: Psychonomic Society, Edinburgh.
2007: Associative Learning Symposium, Wales.
2006: Associative Learning Symposium, Wales.
2006: Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver.
2004: Cognitive Science Society, Chicago.
2004: Associative Learning Symposium, Wales.
2004: Experimental Psychology Society, Lancaster.
2003: Experimental Psychology Society, Exeter.
2002: Cognitive Science Society, Washington.
2002: Experimental Psychology Society, Cambridge.
2001: Associative Learning Symposium, Wales.
2000: Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia.
2000: Experimental Psychology Society, Cambridge.
2000: Associative Learning Symposium, Wales.
1999: Associative Learning Symposium, Wales.
1998: Associative Learning Symposium, Wales
1998: Comparative psychology society, Granada.
1997: Cognitive Science Society, Stanford.
1996: Comparative psychology society, Malaga.
1995: Associative Learning Symposium, London.

Press coverage

2007: Radio 5 Live; Times; The Mirror; Financial Times; Metro; Scientific American Mind; several science/news websites.

Consultancy

2008: DSTL, Statistics training
2007: DTmedia, Military vehicle identification training.

Thesis examinations

2008: Oren Griffiths (UNSW, Australia), Ph.D.
2008: Lee Jie, Hans (NUS, Singapore), Masters
2008: Nino Bregadze (Exeter), Ph.D.
2007: Duncan Guest (Warwick), Ph.D.
2005: Paul Cline (Exeter), M.Phil.
2003: Jon Locke (Cambridge), M.Phil.
2002: Rainer Speigel (Cambridge), Ph.D.
2002: Dick Terry (Exeter), Ph.D.

Peer reviewing

Funding bodies
Journals

Other contributions and achievements

2008 - 2009: Major reform of UG and PGT programmes in the School, substantially increasing efficiency of delivery
2007 - 2010: Distributed computing facility
2007 - 2008: Financial analysis of viability of programmes.
2007- 2008: Periodic Subject Review of Psychology.
2006 - 2007: Refinement of workload model infrastructure.
2006 - 2007: Periodic Subject Review panel member for Sport and Health Sciences.
2006 - 2007: Institutional QAA audit panel member.
2005 - 2006: Assisted renovation of animal testing facilities
2004 - 2005: Reduced School annual programme review academic person-hours workload by 60%
2003 - 2004: Reduced School Exam Board academic person-hours workload by 40%.
2003 - 2003: Local organizer for Experimental Psychology Society conference at Exeter
2002 - 2003: Total overhaul of School UG curriculum
2002 - 2002: Wrote teaching materials for secondary school students
2001 - 2005: Multiple renovations and improvements of cognitive and comparative testing facilities.
1999 - 1999: Ran “Open Labs” for National Science Week
1998 - 1998: Taught one-week residential CPD course for A-level psychology teachers.
1992 - 1993: Ran Southampton University Students’ Union Community Interaction programme.
1991 - 1992: Participation in the CHOICE programme (targets children from low HE-participation neighbourhoods).