Peter Banister

Peter Banister (1947-2019) was a British psychologist.

Peter Banister
Born
Peter Banister

1947
Died2019 (aged 71–72)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Durham
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology, forensic psychology
Doctoral advisorFrederick Viggers Smith.

Academic career

Banister completed a BSc followed by a PhD in Psychology at the University of Durham. His thesis was entitled Cognitive effects of long term imprisonment. He was supervised by Frederick Viggers Smith.[1]

He spent all of his academic career at Manchester Metropolitan University. He started as Associate Lecturer in 1972 and proceeded to Principal Lecturer and Professor. He was Head of the School and subsequently Department of Psychology for a large portion of his career. He was also a tutor at the Open University.[2]

Banister was active in both the British Psychological Society (of which he became President) and in the Association of Heads of Psychology Departments. He was actively involved in teaching innovations and authored with others in his department a popular textbook on qualitative methods.

Publications
  • Banister, P., Burman, E., Parker, I., Taylor, M., & Tindall, C. (1960) Qualitative Methods in Psychology.[3]
gollark: Ah, so just the manpage-diving bit, yes.
gollark: It would probably involve lots of manpage diving, and probably some C somewhere, but it could be done.
gollark: I mean, I generally don't want to anyway.
gollark: I do not wish to be lectured uselessly on grammar by someone who doesn't care about it much themselves.
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References
  1. "Peter Banister 1947-2019". The Psychologist. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  2. "Peter Banister, A tribute". Open University, Personal Blog. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  3. Banister, Peter (1999). Qualitative Methods in Psychology. Milton Keynes: Open University.
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