| Activity | Date of Birth: 18 August 1937
University & Professional Qualifications:
BSc Hons. (Psychology), University of Manchester, 1960
Certificate of Education, University of Birmingham, 1961
Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, 1976
Professional Career:
Lecturer, Applied Psychology Unit, University of Edinburgh, 1962-1968
Head of Psychological Service, Ministry of Education, Zambia, 1968-1971
Head of Manpower Studies, Army Personnel Research Establishment, Farnborough, Hants, 1971-1976
Technical Aid Consultant, Expert in Evaluation Systems, (on secondment) National Centre for Educational Research, Cairo Egypt, 1977-1978
Principal Psychologist, Manpower Services Commission, Head Office London then Sheffield, 1979-1982
Visiting senior Fellow (on secondment), Organisational Behaviour Group and HRM Unit, School of Management, National University of Singapore, 1987-1988
Head of Occupational Psychology Services, Employment Service Head Office Sheffield, 1982-1995
Charter Mark Assessor, Citizen's Charter Unit, Office of Public service, Cabinet Office, London, July 1996 to September 1996
Subject Specialist Reviewer, Quality Assurance Agency or Higher Education, (QAA), Gloucester, October 1998 to 1999
Psychological Assessor, Civil Service Selection Board, November 1999-
Professional qualifications and membership of professional bodies.
Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), FBPsS May 1982
BPS Chartered Occupational Psychologist, CPsychol. 1988
American Psychological Association, 1987
Member, HSE Research Ethics Committee,
Member, UK Health and Safety Executive.
Sources: Malcolm Killcross' CV
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| PublishedWorks | Selected papers:
The APU Occupational Interests Guide: a progress report, Occupational Psychology, 42, 1968, 119-122 with WTG Bates
The use of machine readable answer sheets with multiple choice examinations, Journal of British Medical Education, 2, 1968, 297-300
APU Occupational Interests Guide, University of London Press, London, 1969, with SJ Closs, WTG Bates, and D McMahon
Malnutrition and Reasoning Ability in Zambian School Children, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 66, 1972, 471-478, with MM Fisher, M Simonsson and KA Elgie
The potential use of tailored testing for allocation to army employments, papere read to NATO Conference on Utilisation of Human Resources, Lisbon, June 1973 and in Measurement of human resources, edited by WT Singleton and P Spurgeon: Taylor and Francis, London 1974, 117-122 with A Cassie |