Professor Dorothy Bishop FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2006
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Psychology
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology , Psychology
Summary
Dorothy Bishop, FBA, FMedSci, FRS is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford, where she heads an ERC-funded programme of research into cerebral lateralisation. She is a supernumerary fellow of St John's College Oxford. Her main interests are in the nature and causes of developmental language impairments, with a particular focus on psycholinguistics, neurobiology and genetics. She also is active in the field of open science and research reproducibility and chaired a symposium on reproducibility at the Wellcome Trust in 2015. As well as publishing in conventional academic outlets, she writes a popular blog with personal reactions to scientific and academic matters (Bishopblog) and tweets as @deevybee.
Current post
University of Oxford Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology
Past appointments
St John's College, University of Oxford Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology
1998 -
Applied Psychology Unit, Medical Research Council, Cambridge Senior Research Scientist
1991 - 1998
University of Manchester MRC Senior Research Fellow
1982 - 1991
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Devyani Sharma FBA
Social and cognitive basis of language variation and change; new dialects of English; sociolinguistics, bilingualism, typology; accent variation and social perception
Professor Robyn Carston FBA
The human capacity for ostensive communication; its relation to linguistic competence and theory of mind; the semantics and pragmatics of word meaning; metaphorical and other non-literal uses of language
