Session Structure for the APU Legacy Conference

Note: due to the availability of speakers, we were unable to run the discussion sessions in strict “historical order” and, due to overruns, some planned sessions were combined.

Day 1 Session 1: Introduction and overview

Speakers:
1. William Marslen Wilson: Welcome to the meeting
2. Philip Barnard: Overview of the content of APU research (reprise of briefing notes)  Powerpoint
3. Graham Richards: A perspective on APU heritage from an historian of psychology
4. Tom Landauer (visiting scientist 1985): APU from an international perspective  Powerpoint

5. Discussion Period

6. Showing of the “With People in Mind” film made during the Broadbent Era, with Donald himself anchoring presentation of a representative range of research projects introduced by different researchers. This film is also available for web viewing form the film section of our electronic archive

Day 1 Session 2: The Broadbent Directorship

Speakers:

1. John Morton: Observations on theoretical work
2. Ivan Brown: Observations on the nature of the applied work of the time
3. Alan Collins: An historian’s analysis

4. Open Discussion

Day 1 Session 3: The Baddeley Directorship

Speakers:

1. Tim Shallice: Observations on the range of theoretical contributions of the era
2. Tim Dalgleish: On the development of APU research on Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology
3. Tom Manly: On the development of rehabilitation research
4. Alan Collins: An historian’s analysis

5. Open Discussion

Day 2 Session 1: The early years under Directors Craik, Bartlett and Mackworth

Speakers:

1. Alan Collins: An historian’s perspective on this period of APU research
2. Richard Gregory: An account of his research at APU in the early 1950’s  Powerpoint

Brief question answering followed each of these two talks

Day 2 Session 2: More on the early years and the transition to the Broadbent Directorship

Speakers:

1. Paul Bertleson (Visiting Scientist, 1957 and 1964): Reflections on visiting the APU
2. Patrick Rabbitt: On the theoretical and applied origins of research under the Broadbent Directorship

3. Long Discussion Period

4. William Marslen-Wilson. The inheritance of the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.  Powerpoint

Day 2 Session 3:

Speakers:

1. Philip Barnard: Shows extracts from APU films of the early post-war years (including Mackworth’s eye marker, industrial experiments conducted by Conrad and a range of demonstration projects filmed in conjunction with a scientific meeting held in Cambridge in the late 1950’s – all of which can be viewed from the film section of our electronic archive)
2. John Duncan: Personal Observations on key themes to have emerged over the first five sessions
3. Questions and Observations from historians (Graham Richards & John Forrester)

4. Responses, open discussion an formal closure of discussions

5. Sophie Scott: Shows video extracts illustrating the more entertaining talents of APU staff in the 1990s