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 Terttu Nevalainen FBA
The history of the English language, particularly of the Early Modern English period; historical sociolinguistics; language variation and change; corpus linguistics; design and compilation of digital text corpora
Professor Sophie Scott FBA
Neurobiology of the human voice, including perception, production, as well as emotional expressions such as laughter
Professor Peter Hagoort FBA
Peter Hagoort is emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the emeritus founding director of the Donders Institute, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (DCCN, 1999), a cognitive neuroscience research centre at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
