| Code | BPS/GB/98 |
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| Name | Duncan; David Conochie (1926-2009); AFBPsS |
| Forenames | David Conochie |
| Surname | Duncan |
| Dates | 1926-2009 |
| Epithet | AFBPsS |
| Gender | Male |
| Nationality | British |
| DatesAndPlaces | Born Glenshee, Perthshire, 26 April 1926 Died Ruislip, Middlesex 16 March 2009
St.Andrews, 1943 to 1950
?London 1950 to ?1960
1960 to 1965 Glasgow
1965 to 1968 Dublin
1968 to 2009 London |
| Address | Ruislip Middlesex |
| Relationships | Married: Son born 1952, Daughter born 1956 |
| Activity | Attended Perthshire Strone of Cally Primary School until 1937 then Blairgowrie High School until 1943. In 1943 he went to St.Andrews University. Interrupted by RAF Aircrew Service he eventually graduated with an ordinary MA in Psychology and Philosophy in 1949 and an Honours MA in Psychology and Economics in 1950. From 1950 to 1953 he became a Management Trainee at J and P Coats working in the UK until 1951 then Australia from 1951 to 1953. At Coats he received training in international sales marketing, accounting and general business administration. From 1953 to 1958 he was a member of staff at the National Institute of Industrial Psychology where he engaged on research until 1957 when he was appointed a Senior Investigator and Senior Tutor at the Institute responsible for courses. In 1958 he became the Research Manager at Attwood Statistics Ltd a company engaged in opinion, attitude and market research surveys. From 1960 to 1965 he was an executive recruitment consultant at Management Selection Ltd's (MSL) Scottish Office in Glasgow transferring to Dublin as Director and General Manager of MSL (Ireland) from 1965 to 1968. He left MSL to join A.K.Appointments as Managing Director from 1968 to 1972. In 1972 he became the London Director of Knight Wagenstein Ltd leaving in 1973 to become Managing Director of Team Management Appointments until 1976. Also in 1976 David Duncan set up Social Audit Services and became self-employed.
David Duncan's service to the British Psychological Society (BPS) includes:
Founder member of the Occupational Psychology Division and Press committee 1956
Level B Verifier
Assessor for Occupational Psychology Chartering
Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Note: David Duncan played a leading part in the emergence of the Division of Occupational Psychology and of the press relations function within the BPS
Sources: David Duncan's CV and list of published and unpublished works.
Note: A recorded interview given by David C.Duncan in 2005, for the Oral History Project, is available on request.
The photograph is a photocopy of an original print (not included), no photographer or provenance is known though the date is probably c 1968.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| OtherInfo | Duncan played a leading part in the emergence of the Division of Occupational Psychology and of the press relations function within the BPS |
| PublishedWorks | "Four Years Later: An Experiment in Selecting Supervisors" with J.D.Handyside in Occupational Psychology, Vol 28 pp 9-23, 1954
"Training Factory Workers" NIIP London, Staples Press (Fieldwork p5),1956
"A New Method of Recording Labour Losses", in The Manager, January 1955
Review of "Uncertainty in Economics" by G.L.S. Shackle in Occupational Psychology, Vol 30 p175,1956
Review of "Minds and Machines" by W. Sluckin in Occupational Psychology, Vol 29 p129,1956
Review of "Human Action" by Ludwig von Mises in Occupational Psychology, Vol 30 p175,1956
"Shackle's Theory of Expectations and the Definition of Rationality" in Occupational Psychology, Vol 31 p177,1957
"Statistics of an Auction Sale" in Applied Statistics Vol 7 pp42-4, 1958
"The Concept of Potential Surprise: Can it Serve Better then Probability as a Means of Analysing Uncertainty" in Metroeconomica, Vol XI pp21-36, 1959
"Psychology for Economists" in Occupational Psychology, Vol 32 pp197-203, 1958
"Recruitment and Selection of Staff for Horticultural Work" (Address to the Horticultural Educational Association) published by HEA, 1971
"The Psychology of Taxation" in Manpower and Applied Psychology, Vol 1 pp 162-176, 1967
"The Psychology of Infaltion" in New Behaviour, 26 June 1975 |
| Notes | A recorded interview given by Duncan in 2005, for the Oral History Project, is available on request.
The photograph is a photocopy of an original print (not included), no photographer or provenance is known though the date is probably c 1968. |
| Source | Sources: David Duncan's CV and list of published and unpublished works. |
| Conventions | International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN ISBN 0-9696035-3-3
National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 |