Dorothy Bishop (psychologist)

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Dorothy Bishop
FRS FBA FMedSci

Bishop in 2014
Born Dorothy Vera Margaret Bishop
(1952-02-14) 14 February 1952
Other names Deevy Bishop
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Comprehension of Grammar Normal and Abnormal Development (1977)
Doctoral advisor Freda Newcombe
Notable awards
Spouse Patrick Rabbitt[3][6]
Website
deevybee.blogspot.co.uk

Dorothy Vera Margaret Bishop, FRS, FBA, FMedSci (born 14 February 1952) is a British psychologist specialising in developmental disorders.[4] She is Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, where she has been since 1998.[1][7][8][9] Bishop is Principal Investigator for the Oxford Study of Children's Communication Impairments (OSCCI). She is a supernumary fellow of St John's College, Oxford.

Early life and education

Bishop was born on 14 February 1952.[3] She studied experimental psychology at St Hugh's College, Oxford, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973.[3][5][10]

After graduating she studied at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London where she was awarded a Master of Philosophy degree in 1975.[3] She returned to Oxford where she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Clinical Psychology in 1978 for research supervised by Freda Newcombe.[11]

Research

Bishop conducts research into Psychology, Neuroscience, Language and Developmental disorders.[1][9][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] She is one of the co-founders of the video-led campaign, RALLI, which aims to develop awareness of language learning impairments including Specific language impairment.[19]

Bishop has published some of her academic work as D.V.M. Bishop. This is to avoid any prejudices that may be held against her as a female academic.[5] Her publications include Language development in exceptional circumstances (1988),[20] Handedness and developmental disorders(1990),[21] and Uncommon understanding (1997).[7][22]

Awards and honours

Bishop was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014. Her nomination reads:[4]

Dorothy Bishop is the leading researcher on developmental disorders affecting language and communication. Her work has been foundational for the genetics of developmental disorders: she has been a pioneer in the use of twin data to reveal genetic contributions to language disorders, using theoretically motivated measures to refine the heritable phenotype. She has devised measures that differentiate types of language impairment and are now indispensable for both research and clinical diagnosis. By comparing and contrasting dyslexia, specific language impairment and autism, Bishop has challenged views of these as discrete conditions, and illuminated what is shared and distinctive about each disorder.

Bishop is also a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci). She has honorary degrees from Lund University, the University of Western Australia and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Other activities

As "Deevy Bishop", Bishop has written three humorous crime novels:[23]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dorothy Bishop's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  2. ↑ Bishop, D. V. M.; Adams, C. (1990). "A Prospective Study of the Relationship between Specific Language Impairment, Phonological Disorders and Reading Retardation". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 31 (7): 1027–50. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1990.tb00844.x. PMID 2289942.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "BISHOP, Prof. Dorothy Vera Margaret". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  4. 1 2 3 "Professor Dorothy Bishop FMedSci FRS". Royal Society. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 "Citation for the Degree of Doctor of Science Awarded to Professor Dorothy Bishop" (pdf). Newcastle University. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "RABBITT, Prof. Patrick Michael Anthony". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  7. 1 2 "BISHOP, Professor Dorothy, FRS, FMedSci". British Academy Fellows. British Academy. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  8. ↑ Dorothy Bishop on Twitter
  9. 1 2 Dorothy Bishop's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  10. ↑ "Curriculum Vitae: Dorothy Vera Margaret BISHOP" (doc). Oxford Study of Children's Communication Impairment. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  11. ↑ Bishop, Dorothy Vera Margaret (1977). Comprehension of Grammar Normal and Abnormal Development (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  12. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  13. ↑ Bishop, D. V. M.; North, T.; Donlan, C. (1996). "Nonword Repetition as a Behavioural Marker for Inherited Language Impairment: Evidence from a Twin Study". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 37 (4): 391–403. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1996.tb01420.x. PMID 8735439.
  14. ↑ Stothard, S. E.; Snowling, M. J.; Bishop, D. V.; Chipchase, B. B.; Kaplan, C. A. (1998). "Language-impaired preschoolers: A follow-up into adolescence". Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR 41 (2): 407–18. PMID 9570592.
  15. ↑ Skuse, D. H.; James, R. S.; Bishop, D. V. M.; Coppin, B.; Dalton, P.; Aamodt-Leeper, G.; Bacarese-Hamilton, M.; Creswell, C.; McGurk, R.; Jacobs, P. A. (1997). "Evidence from Turner's syndrome of an imprinted X-linked locus affecting cognitive function". Nature 387 (6634): 705–8. doi:10.1038/42706. PMID 9192895.
  16. ↑ Bishop, D. V. (1997). "Language impairment. Listening out for subtle deficits". Nature 387 (6629): 129–30. doi:10.1038/387129a0. PMID 9144277.
  17. ↑ Bishop, D. V. M.; Snowling, M. J. (2004). "Developmental Dyslexia and Specific Language Impairment: Same or Different?". Psychological Bulletin 130 (6): 858–86. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.130.6.858. PMID 15535741.
  18. ↑ Bishop, D. V.; Edmundson, A (1987). "Language-impaired 4-year-olds: Distinguishing transient from persistent impairment". The Journal of speech and hearing disorders 52 (2): 156–73. doi:10.1044/jshd.5202.156. PMID 3573746.
  19. ↑ The British Dyslexia Association. "RALLI Campaign". http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/news/ralli-campaign.html. External link in |website= (help);
  20. ↑ Bishop, D. V. M. (1988). Language development in exceptional circumstances. Edinburgh New York: Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 0863773087.
  21. ↑ Bishop, D. V. M. (1990). Handedness and developmental disorder. Oxford Philadelphia: Mac Keith Press Blackwell Scientific Publications Lippincott. ISBN 0521411955.
  22. ↑ Bishop, D. V. M. (1997). Uncommon understanding : development and disorders of language comprehension in children. Hove, East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press. ISBN 0863775012.
  23. ↑ "Kindle Store: Deevy Bishop". Amazon. Retrieved 28 October 2014.

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