Professor John Rust

John Rust is the founder of The Psychometrics Centre and an Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. He is also a Senior Member of Darwin College. John combines a huge academic and intellectual reputation in the field of testing and assessment with practical applications experience in a range of blue chips. He retired from his role as Director of the Centre in March 2019 - read more.

John has a very broad interest in all aspects of both pure and applied psychometrics, whether it be academic research or challenging business applications. His work ranges from the investigation of advanced statistical and computational techniques for use in test development, to the UK standardisations of widely used psychometric tests such as

• the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinkling Appraisal (WG-CTA)
• the NEO PI-R and the BIP personality tests
• the Wechsler scales of childrens' intelligence (WISC-IV, WPPSI-III, WIAT-II)
• The Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC-II)
• the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF-IV and CELF Preschool-II)
• the Ravens Progressive Matrices (CPM and SPM+)
• the Mill Hill and the Crichton Vocabulary Scales (MVS and CVS)

He has authored several well known tests, including

• Orpheus, a work based personality test
• Giotto, an integrity test
• RANRA, a test of numerical reasoning ability
• GRIMS and GRISS, assessments of personal relationships
• RISC, an assessment of clinical state

His interests range from the assessment of special educational needs in children to the assessment of personal integrity and team effectiveness in the workplace.

John has also been actively involved in professional and ethical aspects of testing and applied psychology through his work in the British Psychological Society. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Royal Statistical Society.  He has delivered assessment consultancy to a number of organisations, including Natwest Bank, the Cabinet Office and the DES, as well as major city institutions and pharmaceutical companies.

John's Who's Who entry

John Rust's CV

Read more about John Rust in

The Enigma of Testing, The Psychologist, Vol 29, January 2016

 Meet the Expert in the October 2011 Pearson Assessment Newsletter.

Psychometric Tests Tests used in the psychological professions, commerce, industry, the public sector and the Health Services as well as in research. 

People Who Need People: Does psychometrics have a role in staff selection and development? City Insights Public Lecture by Professor John Rust, City University London, July 2005

Psychometrics and Artificial Intelligence: Artificial intelligence systems such as neural networks and expert systems have an increasing role in test development. Presentation by Professor John Rust at the UK Test Users Conference, Brighton, December 2005