Malcolm MacLeod

Professor Malcolm MacLeod is Senior Deputy Principal. He joined the University of Stirling in January 2015. Prior to this, he held a number of senior positions at the University of St Andrews including Dean of the Faculty of Science, Provost of St Leonard’s College, and Vice Principal for Internationalisation and External Relations.

Professor MacLeod is a Chartered Psychologist and holds a Chair in Experimental Psychology in the Faculty of Natural Sciences. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, an elected Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His research focuses on the executive control of memory and particularly the relationship between remembering and forgetting. His research has attracted funding from the ESRC, The British Academy, and The Royal Society of Edinburgh. He also has interests in the civic responsibility of universities, their role in enterprise and entrepreneurship, and as drivers of regional economic growth.