New chairs

Dr Bob Harris
Personal Chair of British History

Bob Harris came to Dundee as a Lecturer in 1993. He was promoted to the post of Senior Lecturer four years later, and then Reader in 2002.

Bob's research is on eighteenth-century British political, social and cultural history. His early work looked at the history of the press. Current research focuses on the politics of radicalism and loyalism in Scotland during the era of the French Revolution, and on society and culture in Scotland’s smaller burghs during the period 1760-1820. He also continues to write on British and Irish politics in the mid eighteenth century.

His most recent book, Politics and the Nation: Britain in the Mid Eighteenth Century, was published by Oxford University Press in 2002. He hopes in the future to explore the role of gambling in Britain and the British Empire in the period c.1660-1850.

Dr Mark Bennett
Professor of Developmental Psychology

Mark Bennett gained his PhD from the LSE in 1982. He joined the University of Dundee in 1991 having previously held several academic posts, including at the University of Durham.

He is internationally recognised for his research on the childhood development of social cognition, an area in which he has published extensively. He has held numerous grants that have funded research on the development of social categorisation processes, stereotyping, and identification with social groups.

Following receipt of a substantial grant from the ESRC, he is soon to commence a major new project looking at the development of children’s understanding of the self and self knowledge.

In April of this year he delivered the Michael Argyle Memorial Lecture, entitled Children and Social Identity, to the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society.

He is currently editor of the journal Infant & Child Development, Associate Editor of The British Journal of Developmental Psychology, and serves on the editorial board of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.