Research output per year
Research output per year
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Professor Ian Deary is a graduate of Psychology and Medicine from the University of Edinburgh, where he also took his PhD. He practised psychiatry in London and Edinburgh before moving to academic psychology. His principal research interests are: human mental abilities, the effects of ageing and medical conditions on mental skills, and the impact of cognitive ability on people's lives. He is Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. He is Director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology. He is Director of the Lothian Birth Cohort studies of healthy ageing. He is an elected Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He was awarded an OBE in the 2019 New Year's Honours for services to the social sciences.
Ordinary National Certificate in Medical Laboratory Sciences (with Distinction) David Dale College, Glasgow, 1974.
Higher National Certificate in Medical Laboratory Sciences: Blood Transfusion and Haematology (with Distinction) Glasgow College of Technology, 1976.
BSc Hons (Medical Sciences) Psychology, Class I, University of Edinburgh, 1980.
MBChB University of Edinburgh, 1983.
MRCPsych (Membership Examination of the Royal College of Psychiatrists), 1991.
PhD (Auditory Inspection Time and Intelligence), University of Edinburgh, 1992.
Current administrative duties:
Director, Lothian Birth Cohorts (funded by Age UK, MRC, NIH, UoE)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Edinburgh
Award Date: 1 Jan 1992
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Ian Deary (Contributor)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition
Andrew McIntosh (Contributor), Matthew Iveson (Contributor) & Ian Deary (Contributor)
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Research and Teaching at External Organisation
Ian Deary (Speaker)
Activity: Other activity types › Other
Andrew McIntosh (Advisor), Stephen Lawrie (Invited speaker), David Porteous (Invited speaker), Ian Deary (Invited speaker), G. D. Batty (Invited speaker), Corri Black (Invited speaker) & Iona Beange (Advisor)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
Ian Deary (Advisor), Riccardo Marioni (Presenter), Adele Taylor (Presenter) & Danielle Page (Presenter)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition
Deary, Ian (Recipient), Nov 2019
Prize: Other distinctions
Deary, Ian (Recipient), 2 Jun 2019
Prize: National/international honour
15/08/21 → 31/07/26
Project: Research
Cox, S., Deary, I. & Marioni, R.
15/08/21 → 31/07/26
Project: Research
1/05/10 → …
Project: Research
Adams, M. (Creator), McIntosh, A. (Owner), Hawkins, E. (Data Manager), Habota, T. (Creator), Steele, J. D. (Creator), Whalley, H. (Creator), Porteous, D. (Project Leader), Deary, I. (Project Leader), Murray, A. (Creator) & Campbell, A. (Data Manager), Edinburgh DataVault, 2019
DOI: 10.7488/8f68f1ae-0329-4b73-b189-c7288ea844d7
Dataset
Henstridge, C. (Creator), Jackson, R. (Creator), Kim, J. (Creator), Herrmann, A. (Creator), Wright, A. K. (Creator), Harris, S. (Creator), Bastin, M. (Creator), Starr, J. (Creator), Wardlaw, J. (Creator), Gillingwater, T. (Creator), Smith, C. (Creator), McKenzie, C. (Creator), Cox, S. (Creator), Deary, I. (Creator) & Spires-Jones, T. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 1 Jun 2016
DOI: 10.7488/ds/1414
Dataset
Howard, D. M. (Creator), Adams, M. (Creator), Shirali, M. (Creator), Clarke, T. (Creator), Marioni, R. (Creator), Davies, G. (Creator), Alloza, C. (Creator), Shen, X. (Creator), Barbu, M. (Creator), Wigmore, E. (Creator), Gibson, J. (Creator), Hagenaars, S. (Creator), Lewis, C. M. (Creator), Ward, J. (Creator), Haley, C. (Creator), Breen, G. (Creator), Deary, I. (Creator) & McIntosh, A. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 5 Mar 2018
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2350
Dataset
Howard, D. (Creator), Adams, M. (Creator), Clarke, T. (Creator), Hafferty, J. (Creator), Gibson, J. (Creator), Shirali, M. (Creator), Coleman, J. (Creator), Ward, J. (Creator), Wigmore, E. (Creator), Alloza, C. (Creator), Barbu, M. (Creator), Xu, E. (Creator), Whalley, H. (Creator), Marioni, R. (Creator), Porteous, D. (Creator), Davies, G. (Creator), Deary, I. (Creator), Hemani, G. (Creator), Tian, C. (Creator), Hinds, D. (Creator), Team, 2. R. (Creator), Consortium, M. D. D. W. G. O. T. P. G. (Creator), Trzaskowshi, M. (Creator), Byrne, E. (Creator), Ripke, S. (Creator), Smith, D. (Creator), Sullivan, P. (Creator), Wray, N. (Creator), Breen, G. (Creator), Shen, X. (Creator), Lewis, C. (Creator) & McIntosh, A. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 30 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2458
Dataset
Adams, M. (Creator), McIntosh, A. (Project Leader), Campbell, A. (Data Manager), Dashti, H. (Researcher), Hill, D. (Researcher), Howard, D. (Researcher), Davis, K. (Researcher), Deary, I. (Project Leader), Hayward, C. (Project Leader), Porteous, D. (Project Leader) & Hotopf, M. (Project Leader), University of Edinburgh, 3 Jun 2019
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2554
Dataset
Katie Overy, Judy Okely & Ian Deary
17/09/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Katie Overy, Judy Okely & Ian Deary
29/08/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
11/05/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Catharine Ward Thompson, Jamie Pearce, Niamh Shortt, Ian Deary & Mark Cherrie
9/09/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
13/03/18 → 13/07/18
19 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research