Martin Conway

Professor of Cognitive Psychology, head of the psychology department at City University London, Martin A. Conway has been studying human memory for more than thirty years. He is known for his pioneering theoretical work on autobiographical memory, as well as for his studies of the neuropsychology of memory and memory’s neurological basis. His research also includes memory impairment and enhancement, and he has recently explored the links between the ability of humans to remember past events and imagine future ones. A graduate of University College London, Dr. Conway earned a Ph.D. in psychology at Open University in 1984. He worked as post-doctoral research scientist in the Medical Research Council’s Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge (UK) was later appointed lecturer in psychology at the University of Lancaster. He subsequently became professor and Chair of Psychology at the University of Bristol, Durham University, and the University of Leeds. A fellow of the Royal College of Arts, the British Psychological Society, the (UK) Academy of Social Sciences, the Psychonomic Society, and the American Psychological Association, he was awarded an honorary degree (Ph.D.) from the Université de Liège. He has been active in providing accessible accounts of research on memory to the public through radio and television, and has been involved in a variety of collaborations with artists that focus on memory. Dr. Conway has been an advisor in many legal cases and written extensively on memory and the law.