User:Ian Pitchford

Ian Pitchford was born near Nottingham, England in 1959 and was educated at Nottingham Trent University, the Open University and the University of Sheffield. He has bachelor's degrees in combined sciences (mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and geology) and in biomedical sciences (primarily neuroscience), a masters degree in psychiatry, philosophy and society and a PhD in evolutionary developmental psychopathology. After completing his doctorate he worked as postdoctoral research fellow in clinical neuroscience and evolutionary psychopathology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska before taking a post in quality assurance and research at the University of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. Dr Pitchford was founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal 'Evolutionary Psychology' (http://www.epjournal.net/). He retains broad interests in the sciences, social sciences, history and philosophy of science, politics and world history.

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