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'''Prof (Robert) Alan Kennedy''' is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the [[University of Dundee]], and Chercheur Associé [http://www.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/spip.php?article2085 Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurosciences Cognitives, Boulogne-Billancourt, France]. He carries out research on eye movement control in reading and the viewing of static and moving images and is the [http://www.dundee.ac.uk/psychology/akennedy/ author] of over 100 journal articles.
'''Career'''
• Undergraduate degree in English Literature and Psychology, [http://www.bham.ac.uk/ University of Birmingham] where he won a Research Scholarship to complete a PhD in the Institute of Education.
• 1963-1965, Senior Tutor and then Lecturer in Psychology, [http://www.unimelb.edu.au/ University of Melbourne]
• 1965-1968, Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Psychology, [[St. Andrews University]].
• 1968-1972, Senior Lecturer, [[University of Dundee]].
• 1972-2006, Professor of Psychology, [[University of Dundee]].
Educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge, he was one of three brothers all of whom had academic careers. His older brother Stuart Charles (1935 - 2002) was a [http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/ Fellow of the Royal college of Surgeons] and his younger brother [[Sir Ian Kennedy]] a [http://www.britac.ac.uk/ Fellow of the British Academy]. He has married twice, first to Edwardene Mildred Price, leading to a divorce in 1976; and then to Elizabeth Wanda Sokolowska. He has one child by his first wife, the novelist [[A L Kennedy]]. He is a fellow of [[The Royal Society of Edinburgh]], an Honorary Member of [http://www.eps.ac.uk/ The Experimental Psychology Society], and a Fellow of the [http://www.bps.org.uk/ British Psychological Society].
'''Books'''
• Studies in Long-Term Memory (with A.L. Wilkes). John Wiley & Sons (1975) ISBN-13: 978-0471469056
• The Psychology of Reading. London ; New York : Methuen, 1984. 0416382207 041635940X (pbk.)
• Reading as a Perceptual Process (with Radach, Heller and Pynte) North Holland; (2000), ISBN-13: 978-0080436425
• Eye movements and information processing during reading. (with Radach and Rayner). Psychology Press. ISBN:184169956x hbk (2004)
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