Using Arts as Means of Leadership

Dr. Archer was born in 1949. At 7 years, he was sent to St. Joseph’s College in North Point, Darjeeling, and from 15-17 years he attended Wallington Grammar School in Wallington, UK. During this time Trevor was part-time stable lad (jockey). Later on he was offered a position at the Institute of Animal Physiology in Babraham, UK, and took his HND qualification at Cambridge Polytechnical College in 1971. Thereafter, he obtained an Honour’s degree in Psychology and Physiology at Newcastle-upon-Tyne University, and a PhD at Uppsala University in Sweden. From 1978 to 1988, he was employed by Astra Läkemedel AB with the position of Head of CNS Drugs when he left to take up a new appointment as Professor and Chair of Biological Psychology at Gothenburg University. Trevor has had the position of Guest or Visiting Professor at 6 universities worldwide and received an Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award from St. Joseph’s College in North Point, an Honorary Doctorship, Professorship and Membership Awards from the Polish Academy of Science Pharmacological Society, and the Sansone Award for Studies in Well-being at School of Medicine of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Archer was also made Professor Emeritus on 30th October, 2016, and appointed Senior professor at Gothenburg university on 1st December that same year.