Professor Richard Bentall FBA
Social determinants and psychological mechanisms leading to symptoms of severe mental illness (hallucinations, delusions); novel psychological treatments for people diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other serious psychiatric disorders
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2014
- Subjects
- Psychology
- Sections
- Psychology
Current post
Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Sheffield
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Michael Billig FBA
Nationalism; far-right; rhetoric and thinking; psycho-analysis and repression; history of psychology; academic writing; psychology and humour; theory and examples in psychology; history of rock’n’roll
Professor Charles Nelson III FBA
Development and neural bases of processing social information (eg facial emotion); trajectories to autism, with a particular focus on populations at high risk for developing autism (eg, infants with an older sibling with autism; children with various single gene mutations that appear to confer risk for developing autism); effects of early adversity on brain and behavioral development, including exposure to both psychosocial adversities and biological adversities
