A celebration of the Addison Wheeler Fellowship with Professor Richard Morris CBE FRS FRSE (University of Edinburgh)

These endowed Fellowships come from the generosity of the late Addison James Wheeler who read Theology at Durham. His support has provided research fellowships to early career scholars of outstanding promise. 

To celebrate this legacy of more than 50 years, one of the very early Addison Wheeler Fellows, neuroscientist, Professor Richard Morris CBE FRS FRSE, a Fellow between 1973 and 1975, joins us in Durham on Wednesday 18 October, at 4.00pm in the Calman Learning Centre (Kingsley Barrett Room) for reflections on his Fellowship, and his research and career since.  

Booking is essential.  Please complete this registration form. Your place will be confirmed within 72 hours of receipt.  

If you have any questions please contact the IAS Manager (Linda Crowe)

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About Professor Richard Morris CBE FRS FRSE 

Richard Morris is Professor of Neuroscience in Edinburgh and was, until recently, Director of the Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems. He read Natural Sciences at Cambridge and did his D.Phil at the University of Sussex. His early career included a period as an Addison Wheeler Fellow in Durham and then, outside academia, helping to build an exhibition at the Natural History Museum and working for BBC Television, before taking up a Lectureship in Scotland. He remains active in University teaching, with his longstanding research interest being the neurobiology of cognition, particularly the role synaptic plasticity in the brain in memory formation. A specific focus has been on the automaticity of many aspects of memory formation and the implications of this.  Beyond the lab, he set up Edinburgh Neuroscience in 2005 jointly with the clinical neurologist Charles Warlow which they directed together for its first 5 years.  

Outside Edinburgh, he served, by secondment, as Head of Neuroscience and Mental Health at the Wellcome Trust from 2007 to 2010, where he helped to set up the new Sainsbury-Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL and the research charity MQ:Transforming Mental Health.  He was a co-recipient with two prominent physiologists, Tim Bliss and Graham Collingridge, of the The Brain Prize (Lundbeck Foundation, Copenhagen).  He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1997, the Academy of Medical Sciences (1999), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2007) and of the National Academy of Sciences (USA, 2020). He was appointed a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2007.

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