Robert Maclaughlin Farr

Robert Maclaughlin Farr (1936 - 2013) was a social psychologist from Northern Ireland who played an important role in introducing social representation theory to Britain.

Robert Maclaughlin Farr
Born
Robert Maclaughlin Farr

1936
Died2013
Alma materQueen's University Belfast
Scientific career
FieldsSocial psychology
InstitutionsUniversity College London, University of Glasgow, London School of Economics
Doctoral studentsGeorge Gaskell

Life

Rob Farr was born in Northern Ireland in 1936 where he gained a BSc and MSc from Queen's University Belfast. He then spent some years in the Royal Air Force before taking up an academic post at University College London in 1966. He stayed there for 13 years until he was appointed Chair of Psychology at the University of Glasgow but did not stay there for long. In 1983 he was appointed Chair of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and returned to London. He remained at that institution until he retired in 2000.[1]

He was active in the British Psychological Society of which he was elected president in 1985.

Research

While he was at University College London he spent a sabbatical year in Paris working with Serge Moscovici. He returned enthused with the ideas of social representation theory and spent the remainder of his career developing and promoting these ideas. He had a continuing interest in the development of social psychology and published a collection of his articles on this topic in 1996 (Farr, 1996).

Publications
  • Farr, R.M., Moscovici, S. (Eds.). (1984). Social Representations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Markova, I., & Farr, R.M. (eds) (1995) Representations of Health and Illness and Handicap[2]
  • Farr, R.M. (1996) The Roots of Modern Social Psychology[3]

Awards

References
  1. Farr, Angus (31 Oct 2013). "Robert Farr obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  2. Markova, I (1995). Representations of Health, Illness and Handicap. Chur: Harwood Academic.
  3. Farr, Robert (1996). The Roots of Modern Social Psychology. Oxford: Blackwell.
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