Professor Ian Deary
MRC bodies you are a member of:
- Neurosciences and mental Health Board
- Population Health Sciences Group
- Cross-board Advisory Group
Main form of employment:
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh
Research group/department web page/s:
Personal remuneration:
- University of Edinburgh salary
- USS pension
Shareholdings and financial interests in companies
- None
Research income during current session [over £50k per grant]
- Deary, I. J. Grant to establish Medical Research Council Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (Director I. J. Deary). Medical Research Council. £3,400,000 approx. August 2008-July 2013.
- Deary, I. J., Bastin, M., Starr, J. M., Wardlaw, J. M., & Penke, L. Brain white matter imaging and cognitive ageing in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936: II. Medical Research Council. £808,224. April 2011-March 2014. (G1001245.)
- Deary, I. J., Bates, T. C., Starr, J. M., & Gow, A. A hundred at ninety: the common cause hypothesis of cognitive ageing in four waves of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921. Scottish Government, Chief Scientist Office. £147,766. January 2011-December 2012. (Ref. ETM/55.)
- Deary, I. J., Batty, G. D. Cognitive epidemiology: The next steps (one-day satellite meeting to the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Social Medicine). Medical Research Council, £7000. January 2012-December 2012. (Ref. Phsrn43.)
- Deary, I. J., Batty, G. D., Dibben, C., Elliot, J., Maclullich, A., Starr, J., Johnson, W. Lifelong health and wellbeing of the 6-Day Sample of the Scottish Mental Survey 1947. Medical Research Council. £1,399.279. October 2011-September 2014. (G1001401.)
- Deary, I. J., & Starr, J. M. In how many ways can one age successfully?; PhD Studentship for Andrea Zammit. Age UK-Research Into Ageing. £47,000. September 2010-August 2012. (Ref. 357.)
- Deary, I. J., & Starr, J. M., & Wardlaw, J. M. The Disconnected Mind, Phase 2. Age UK. £2,500,000. April 2011-March 2016.
- Kuh, D. (PI), Deary, I. J. and 20 other co-investigators. A life course approach to healthy ageing: capitalising on the value of UK life course cohorts. Economic and Social Research Council (with funding from ESRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC, AHRC). £1,372,243. September 2008 to April 2012. (RES-353-25-0001.)
- MacLullich, A. M. J., Brown, L. J. E., Shenkin, S. D., Abrahams, S., Logie, R. L., Starr, J. M., Deary, I. J., Allerhand, M., & White, T. O. Development of a new neuropsychological instrument for the diagnosis and monitoring of delirium. Medical Research Council. £149,789. January 2010 to December 2012.
- Mottus, R., & Deary, I. J. Predictors and mechanisms of successful cognitive ageing. Estonian Science Foundation Researcher Mobility Programme MOBILITAS. £66,000. May 2010-June 2012.
- Porteous, D., Hastie, N., Auer, M., Bradley, M., Deary, I., Dunlop, M., Frame, M., Newby, D., Ralston, S., Tyers, M., & Walkinshaw, M. Wellcome-Wolfson capital award in biomedical science for Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine: Systems Medicine, Edinburgh. Wellcome Trust. £3,461,500. March 2011-March 2014. (Ref. 092509.)
- von Stumm, S., & Deary, I. J. The relationship of intelligence and personality and its effect on adult intellect: post-doctoral fellowship for Sophie von Stumm. Economic and Social Research Council. £100,147. September 2011-August 2012.
Major academic collaborators [national and international]
- CHARGE consortium
- ENIGMA consortium
- CHIC consortium
- COGENT consortium
- MRC Units: LHA (London) LEU (Southampton) SPHSU (Glasgow) HGU (Edinburgh)
- Paul Moss – Birmingham U
- Peter Visscher – U Queensland
- Naveed Sattar – U Glasgow
- Lawrence Whalley – U Aberdeen/U Highlands and Islands
- Reinvang – U Oslo
- Le Hellard – U Bergen
- Pendleton and team – U Manchester
Un-remunerated involvement with and membership of medical, bio-medical, pharmaceutical, healthcare provision or science or health policy/communication and similar activities/organisations
- Member, British Cohort Studies Scientific Committee, 2012 to date.
- Member, Medical Research Cross-Board Advisory Group, 2011 to date.
- Member, European Association for Personality Psychology’s Early Career Award for Young Scientists, 2011 to date.
- Member, Medical Research Council Population Health Sciences Group, 2011 to date.
- Convener, Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship Committee (Sectional Committee A1), 2011 to date.
- Member, Medical Research Council Neurosciences and Mental Health Board, 2011 to date.
- Special Professor in Differential Psychology, University of Nottingham, 2010 to date.
- Assessor, Australian National University Research Assessment Exercise, 2010 to date.
- Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Centre for Healthy Ageing at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 2009 to date.
- Member, Scottish Government Mental Health Portfolio Steering Group, 2008 to date.
- Visiting Scientist, MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton, 2009 to date.
- Visiting Worker, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow 2001 to date.
Political/pressure group associations:
- None
Family:
- Brother Vincent is senior lecturer in Psychology at U Northumbria, and was MRC Fellow previously.
