Rust, Prof. John Neville
Rust, Prof. John Neville
PhD; CPsychol; FSS, FBPsS
Born Scunthorpe 25 Nov. 1943; s of John Cyprian Walcot Rust and Frances Mary Rust; m 1979, Prof. Susan Esther Golombok, qv; one s, and one d by a previous partner
Director, Psychometrics Centre, Judge Business School (formerly in Psychology Department), University of Cambridge, 2008–19; Senior Member, Darwin College, Cambridge, since 2009; Associate Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, since 2019
Education
Cirencester Grammar Sch.; Birkbeck Coll., Univ. of London (BSc 1st Cl. Hons Psychol., Statistics and Computer Sci. 1970; MA Philos. 1976); Inst. of Psychiatry, Univ. of London (PhD 1974). CPsychol 1982
Career
University of London: Researcher and Lectr, Inst. of Psychiatry, 1972–76; Institute of Education: Lectr, then Sen. Lectr in Psychometrics, 1976–91; Hd, Dept of Child Develt and Educnl Psychol., 1984–87; Senator for Faculty of Educn, 1983–87; Sen. Lectr, then Reader in Psychometrics, Goldsmiths Coll., 1991–2002; Prof. of Psychometrics, City Univ., London, 2002–05; Founding Dir, Psychometrics Centre, City Univ., London, 2002–05, transf. to Cambridge Assessment, 2005–08. Visiting Academic: Univ. of Jos, 1979 and 1980; De La Salle Univ., Manila, 1986. Fellow, Amer. Acad. of Assessment Psychol., 1993. Freeman, City of London, 1986. Founder Editor, Philosophical Psychology, 1988. Author of and UK standardisations of psychometric tests. FSS 1976; FBPsS 1985
Publications
(with S. E. Golombok) Modern Psychometrics, 1989, 4th edn (with Dr M. Kosinski and Dr D. Stillwell), 2020; articles in learned jls
Recreations
astrophysics, promoting diversity and multiculturalism, genealogy, internet, cooking, films
Address
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB
07876 684568
jnr24@cam.ac.uk
