Research output per year
Research output per year
PROF
Accepting PhD Students
Developmental Psychology
1989 - Fellow of the United States’ Casualty Actuarial Society.
1999 -Master of Arts, Developmental Psychology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA USA
May 2005 - Doctor of Philosophy, Behavior Genetics and Individual Differences with Statistics Department minor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA
I teach Differential in Psychology 2, Fourth-Year Tutorials, and Individual Differences in Mental Health for the Clinical School's Conversion Course. With Zach Horne, I compiled a set of online Critical Thinking Exercises for Y3 students to substitute for the Mini-Disses not running in 21/22. Of course I also supervise Y4 and some MSc Dissertations. My Y34 Transition to Adulthood course is on the books but not running in 21/22.
Member of Scientific Advisory Board, TWIN LIFE: A genetically informative, longitudinal study of the life course and individual development. A project funded by the German Research Federation (€4.5 million) [2013-2016]
Search Committee Member University of Edinburgh [Aug 2013]
Convenor, University of Edinburgh Department of Psychology Ethics Committee [Jan-Jun 2013]
Convenor, University of Edinburgh Department of Psychology Athena Swan Team [2012-]
Search Committee Member, University of Edinburgh [Sept 2011]
Department of Psychology Research Ethics Committee [2009 -2013]
Treasurer and Executive Board Member, International Society for Intelligence Research [2007-2012]
2010-present - Reader, Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive aging and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Minnesota
Award Date: 1 Jan 2005
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 › Comment/debate › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Johnson, W. (Advisor)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
Johnson, W. (Advisor)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
Johnson, W. (Advisor)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
Johnson, W. (Assessor)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Johnson, W. (Assessor)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Johnson, W. (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Election to learned society
Johnson, W. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: National/international honour
Johnson, W. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/16 → 31/08/18
Project: Research
Johnson, W. (Principal Investigator)
1/10/15 → 31/07/16
Project: Research
Deary, I. (Principal Investigator), Johnson, W. (Co-investigator), Maclullich, A. (Co-investigator) & Starr, J. (Co-investigator)
1/10/11 → 30/03/16
Project: Research
Johnson, W. (Principal Investigator)
15/09/10 → 31/08/15
Project: Research
Yau, J. (Principal Investigator), Blackburn, C. (Co-investigator), Boyle, P. (Co-investigator), Brophy, P. (Co-investigator), Goryachev, A. (Co-investigator), Ingram, G. (Co-investigator), Johnson, W. (Co-investigator), Knott, S. (Co-investigator), Morcom, A. (Co-investigator), Morton, N. (Co-investigator), Mutapi, F. (Co-investigator), Porteous, D. (Co-investigator), Savill, J. (Co-investigator), Stancheva, I. (Co-investigator) & Millar, K. (Researcher)
1/10/04 → 31/03/11
Project: Research
2/04/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment