Professor Adam Rutland

Adam trained as a social developmental psychologist, and conducts research that cuts across developmental, social, cognitive and educational psychology.

He has contributed widely to various books and journals (including Psychological Science, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, European Journal of Social Psychology, PLOS One and Perspectives on Psychological Science) and is the co-author (with Melanie Killen) of Children and Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). He is also co-editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Group Processes in Children and Adolescents (2017, with Drew Nesdale and Christia Spears Brown) and the Sage Library in Developmental Psychology five volume Reader on Childhood Social Development (2014, with Peter K. Smith).

He was an international member of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Committee on Equity and Justice in Childhood (2010-2016). In 2014 he became an Elected Fellow of The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), Division 9 of the American Psychological Association (APA) and an organizational affiliate of the American Psychological Society (APS), in recognition of outstanding contributions to psychology and to the study of social issues.

Career:
Adam Rutland studied Psychology at Loughborough University, England and obtained a PhD in Psychology in 1993 from the University of Stirling, Scotland. He was a Post-doctoral Researcher and British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Surrey, England from 1993-1997. Between 1997-2000 he was a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Adam moved to the University of Kent, England in 2000 and there he was a Lecturer in Psychology (2000-04), Senior Lecturer in Psychology (2004-05), Reader in Psychology (2005-07) and Professor of Psychology (2007-12). He became a Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2012. In the same year he became a Special Elected Member of the Graduate Faculty, Graduate School, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. Adam joined the University of Exeter as a Professor of Psychology in 2019.