Other positions included Patron of the Churches Fellowship (Scotland) for Psychical and Spiritual Studies and a member of the Scientific and Medical Network.
The academic was also a Founding President of The Scottish Society for Psychical Research and a member and past president of the London-based Society for Psychical Research.
Ms Warner is also illuminating on the apparent gullibility of some 19th-century scientists and rationalists, such as the members of the British and American societies for psychical research.