Biography:
Adrian Charles Brock was born in Gibraltar and grew up in Greater Manchester. After spending several years as a backpacker in Asia, Australia, Africa and Latin America, he enrolled as a mature student at Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University) and graduated with a BSc in Psychology three years later, being the only student in his year to be awarded a first-class honours degree. He then received a British Academy Scholarship to study for an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He was subsequently awarded a Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship to do his PhD with the eminent historian of psychology, Kurt Danziger at York University in Toronto. He obtained his first teaching position at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta and moved to University College Dublin from there. He has also spent a sabbatical as a visiting fellow at the University of Cape Town. As a specialist in history and theory or philosophy of psychology, he has published in journals such as History of Psychology, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Theory & Psychology, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences and History of the Human Sciences. He is also the author of numerous book chapters and encyclopedia entries in this field. He has edited two books, Rediscovering the History of Psychology (Springer, 2003) and Internationalizing the History of Psychology (NYU Press, 2006). He is also on the editorial boards of History of Psychology, the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and the Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. He recently gave an invited address at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association in Toronto and accepted an invitation to be the guest editor of a special issue of Canadian Psychology. He is also on the international advisory board for the 30th International Congress of Psychology in Cape Town where he will give an invited address.
