Robert Alan Kennedy FRSE is emeritus professor of Psychology at the University of Dundee, and formerly research associate at the Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurosciences Cognitives of Paris Descartes University, Boulogne-Billancourt, France. He carries out research into eye movement control in reading and the viewing of static and moving images and is the author of over 100 journal articles. Education Educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge, Kennedy was one of three brothers at the school, all of whom had academic careers. His older brother Stuart Charles Kennedy (1936–1999), was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and his younger brother Ian McColl Kennedy, is a fellow of the British Academy. Kennedy obtained an undergraduate degree in English Literature and Psychology at the University of Birmingham and won a research scholarship to complete a PhD in Psychology at the Institute of Education, University of Birmingham. Academic career From 1963 to 1965, Kennedy was Senior Tutor and then Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Melbourne and then from 1965–1968, Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Psychology at St. Andrews University. From 1968–1972, he was Senior Lecturer at the University of Dundee. From 1972 to 2006 he held the established chair in Psychology at the University of Dundee and was Head of the Department. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh and an Honorary Member of the Experimental Psychology Society. Lasserrade Press In 2009 Kennedy and his wife left the UK, purchasing the house of the Danish sculptor René Laraignou (1924-2014) near Marciac in South-West France. In 2010 Kennedy established Lasserrade Press as a vehicle for publishing his fiction. He has published six novels, including a World War Two trilogy, completed in 2018 and described on the University of Dundee Website as "a kind of literary fugue." Much of his fiction is set in France. In 2015 he published Oscar & Lucy, an "autobiographical biography" of his predecessor in St Andrews, the South African psychologist Oscar Oeser who headed Hut 6 at Bletchley Park. Kennedy writes frequently on the work of the children's author Arthur Ransome and has published a book (A Thoroughly Mischievous Person: The Other Arthur Ransome) and a number of critical essays exploring Ransome's use of myth and associative symbolism. Honors and recognition In 1991 Kennedy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Kennedy was elected to Honorary Membership of The