John Nicholas Pepys Rawlins (born 31 May 1949) is a British

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, one of the pro vice-chancellors and the vice-president of

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Life

Born in 1949, he is the only son of Sir John Rawlins and the grandson of Stuart Rawlins. He was educated at Westbury House School and

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before reading for a BA in Psychology, Physiology and Philosophy at

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. He was awarded first class honours in 1971. He subsequently studied for a D.Phil at Oxford under the supervision of Jeffrey Gray. He was married to the philosopher

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from 1986 until her death on 16 August 2007. Rawlins is Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience at the

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. His research interests include animal learning and memory, brain mechanisms of memory storage, animal models of

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, attentional deficits in

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studies of pain in humans, and behavioural phenotyping of genetically modified mice. Rawlins was a

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of University College, Oxford, from 1983 until the end of 2007, when he moved to a Professorial Fellowship at

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. He retains his link with University College as an Emeritus Fellow. He was appointed as Oxford University's Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Development and External Affairs on 23 June 2010. In 2018, Rawlins became Master of Morningside College of the

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. In August 2021, he was appointed as one of the Pro-Vice-Chancellors of the University.

Works

His most cited paper is entitled "Place Navigation Impaired in Rats with Hippocampal Lesions", published in ''Nature'' in 1982 jointly with Richard G. Morris, Paul Garrud, and John O'Keefe, which had been cited 6,268 times, according to scite.ai.

References

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