Patrick Michael Anthony Rabbitt (born 1934), also known as Pat, is an English psychologist who has specialised in researching the mental effects of aging — cognitive gerontology.[1]
Rabbitt was born on 23 September 1934, to Edna Maude, née Smith, and Joseph Bernard Rabbitt, and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.[2]
He subsequently worked for the University of Oxford as a lecturer in psychology (1968-1982); the University of Durham as
Professor of Psychology and head of department in (1982-1983); and the University of Manchester, in the Research Chair in Gerontology and Cognitive Psychology and Director of the Age and Cognitive Performance Research Centre (1983-2004).[2][3]
He subsequently took up a position at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.[2]
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"A Passage from India". - Partick Rabbitt's episodic history of 'how an obdurately Irish family lived in India for 130 years and then left it to try to live in England, an unknown country that we called “Home” but had never visited'.
