Brian's first job was as research assistant for Margaret Donaldson at the University of Edinburgh on a project looking at cognitive and linguistic development in children. His interests in cross-cultural psychology led him to a post in a Department of Sociology and Anthropology at University of Salford. He moved to the University of Exeter in 1989 where he has been ever since (people rarely move from the South West for various reasons) he is interested in theories of promotional or 'interested' communication
Brian's first job was as research assistant for Margaret Donaldson at the University of Edinburgh on a project looking at cognitive and linguistic development in children. His interests in cross-cultural psychology led him to a post in a Department of Sociology and Anthropology at University of Salford. He moved to the University of Exeter in 1989 where he has been ever since (people rarely move from the South West for various reasons) he is interested in theories of promotional or 'interested' communication
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Brian's first job was as research assistant for Margaret Donaldson at the University of Edinburgh on a project looking at cognitive and linguistic development in children. His interests in cross-cultural psychology led him to a post in a Department of Sociology and Anthropology at University of Salford. He moved to the University of Exeter in 1989 where he has been ever since (people rarely move from the South West for various reasons) he is interested in theories of promotional or 'interested' communication
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I am a developmental psychologist and my first job was as research assistant for
Margaret Donaldson at the University of Edinburgh on a project looking at cognitive and linguistic development in children which led to her book on Children’s Minds. I spent seven years lecturing at the University of Hong Kong and obtained a PhD there on Chinese-English bilingualism together with some invaluable life experience and a smattering of Cantonese. My interests in cross-cultural psychology led me to a post in a Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Salford together with my first large research grant from the old Health Education Council looking at the role of food advertising in the aetiology of dental caries. I moved to the University of Exeter in 1989 where I have been ever since (people rarely move from the South West for various reasons). I developed an interest in economic psychology as the School of Psychology there has an international reputation in that area. Relevant book publications include authorship of Television Advertising and Children published by Oxford University Press in 1990, co-authorship of The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life (2001; Psychology Press) and co-editorship of The Faces of Televisual Media: Teaching, Violence, Selling to Children (2003; Erlbaum). I have published many academic papers and acted as consultant for the HEC, MAFF, Advertising Association, Food Standards Agency, and various firms. I edit Young Consumers, published by Emerald. I am interested in theories of promotional or ‘interested’ communication using pragmatic theory in linguistics and establishing a developmental psychology of how children acquire an understanding of these communicative forms – that would be my ‘project’ in the future I guess.