Graham Hitch

Graham Hitch is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of York, best known for his work with Alan Baddeley in developing a Working Memory Model.^[2][3]

Graham Hitch
Born	Graham James Hitch
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for	Working memory
Scientific career
Fields	Memory Cognitive Psychology[1]
Institutions	University of York University of Sussex University of Manchester Lancaster University University of Stirling
Thesis	Organisation and retrieval in immediate memory (1972)
Website	www.york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academicstaff/gjh3/

Education

He gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge, before gaining a Master of Science degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Sussex.^{[citation needed]} He then returned to Cambridge to complete his PhD in 1972.^[4]

Career and research

He has worked as a research fellow at the University of Sussex (1971–1972) and the University of Stirling (1972–1974), and as a scientist on the Medical Research Council of the Applied Psychology Unit based in Cambridge (1974–1979). He has more recently been employed as a lecturer at the University of Manchester (1979–1990), and as a professor at the University of Lancaster (1991–2000), before moving to the University of York in 2000.

The Working Memory Model (Baddeley and Hitch, 1974, revised 2000)

References

1. Graham Hitch publications indexed by Google Scholar
2. Baddeley, Alan D.; Hitch, Graham (1974). Working Memory. Psychology of Learning and Motivation. Vol. 8. pp. 47–89. doi:10.1016/S0079-7421(08)60452-1. ISBN 9780125433082. ISSN 0079-7421.
3. Baddeley, Alan D.; Hitch, Graham J. (1994). "Developments in the concept of working memory". Neuropsychology. 8 (4): 485–493. doi:10.1037/0894-4105.8.4.485. ISSN 1931-1559.
4. Hitch, Graham James (1972). Organisation and retrieval in immediate memory. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.