Graham Hitch
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| birth_name = Graham James Hitch
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| fields = Memory
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| workplaces = University of York
University of Sussex
University of Manchester
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University of Stirling
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| alma_mater = University of Cambridge (PhD)
| thesis_title = Organisation and retrieval in immediate memory
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| thesis_year = 1972
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| known_for = Working memory
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Graham Hitch is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of York, best known for his work with Alan Baddeley in developing a Working Memory Model.{{cite book|last1=Baddeley|first1=Alan D.|last2=Hitch|first2=Graham|title=Working Memory|volume=8|year=1974|pages=47–89|issn=0079-7421|doi=10.1016/S0079-7421(08)60452-1|series=Psychology of Learning and Motivation|isbn=9780125433082}}{{cite journal|last1=Baddeley|first1=Alan D.|last2=Hitch|first2=Graham J.|title=Developments in the concept of working memory.|journal=Neuropsychology|volume=8|issue=4|year=1994|pages=485–493|issn=1931-1559|doi=10.1037/0894-4105.8.4.485}}
Education
He gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge, before gaining a Master of Science degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Sussex.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} He then returned to Cambridge to complete his PhD in 1972.{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Cambridge|title=Organisation and retrieval in immediate memory|first= Graham James|last=Hitch|date=1972|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.459276|website=ethos.bl.uk}}
Career and research
He has worked as a research fellow at the University of Sussex (1971–1972) and the University of Stirling (1972–1974), and as a scientist on the Medical Research Council of the Applied Psychology Unit based in Cambridge (1974–1979). He has more recently been employed as a lecturer at the University of Manchester (1979–1990), and as a professor at the University of Lancaster (1991–2000), before moving to the University of York in 2000.
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