Photo opportunity 2.30pm, Saturday 18 January, psychology department, Scrymgeour building, University of Dundee, Park Place, Dundee.
To mark a distinguished career, colleagues, former students and friends of Alan Wilkes, senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Dundee, are holding a festschrift tomorrow to review some of his research areas and recognise his contribution to the study of psychology before he retires.
Colleagues will gather for a half day symposium tomorrow with presentations from Professor Philip Smith from the University of Reading, Dr Peter Lloyd from the University of Manchester and Professor Rick Hanley from the University of Essex as well as fellow researchers from the University of Dundee.
Alan, a distinguished researcher in social cognition, psycholinguistics and memory is retiring from his post after 40 years of teaching and research.
By Jenny Marra, Press Officer 01382 344910 j.m.marra@dundee.ac.uk