The Perrott-Warrick fund has announced the appointments of two senior Perrott-Warrick researchers: Dr Donna Thomas and Prof David Luke.
PERROTT-WARRICK APPOINTMENTS
The Perrott-Warrick fund, administered by Trinity College, Cambridge, supports senior
academics to investigate mental or physical phenomena which seem to suggest (i) the
existence of supernormal powers of cognition or action in human beings in their present life,
or (ii) the persistence of the human mind after bodily death.
I am pleased to announce that two senior Perrott-Warrick researchers have just been
appointed and they will each be funded for three years. Dr Donna Thomas, Co-Director of
the ICreateS International Research Centre at the University of Central Lancashire, will be
investigating extrasensory experiences in the context of human development with children
and adults. Prof David Luke, Associate Professor of Psychology in the School of Human
Sciences at the University of Greenwich, will be investigating precognitive dream
performance among lucid and non-lucid dreamers.
Smaller awards have also been made to Dr Melvyn Willin for digitising SPR archival material
and to Dr Nancy Zingrone for completing a book initiated by the late Dr Carlos Alvarado
about the role of the SPR in the development of the concept of the unconscious mind,
dissociation, and psychic phenomena during the nineteenth-century.
Although the SPR plays no role in making these appointments or funding the awards, I’m
sure SPR members will join me in congratulating the recipients and wishing them every
success in their projects.
Bernard Carr (Secretary of Perrott-Warrick Fund)