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I am professor and pro-vice chancellor for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Liverpool. I have also held leadership positions at the University of Kent, Newcastle University and Nottingham University.

My research seeks to understand the brain mechanisms of visual perception. I have published influential papers on the mechanisms of colour vision, the limits of vision, the perception of spatial structure, mechanisms of orientation-discrimination and on the analysis and perception of motion.

With Jacqueline Aldridge, a colleague from the University of Kent, I have written a book to help academics to decide what sort of research grants to apply for, and to write better research grant applications. The book is to be published in May 2012. We shall be blogging about grant-writing on the book website.

I am increasingly interested in academic leadership and management. From May 2012 I shall be blogging about issues related to academic management as Russell Dean.