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Dorothy Bishop is a Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford, where she is Principal Investigator for the Oxford Study of Children's Communiciation Impairments (OSCCI), http://oscci.psy.ox.ac.uk/. Follow links from that site to Publications for a full list of publications. Dorothy has a personal blog on academic-related matters at http://deevybee.blogspot.com/

Brief biography

Dorothy completed her BA in Experimental Psychology at Oxford University in 1973, and went on to do a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. She then returned to Oxford to work at the MRC Neuropsychology Unit with Dr Freda Newcombe, at the same time as doing a doctorate on the topic of children’s comprehension problems. After seven years in Oxford, she took up a Senior Research Fellowship with the Medical Research Council based, first at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and then at the University of Manchester. During this time she completed several research studies, including a longitudinal study following the progress of 4-year-olds with specific language impairment (SLI) over a 4 year period. Follow-up of the same children at age 16 was subsequently completed in a collaborative study with Professor Margaret Snowling. Other studies looked at language development in children with cerebral palsy, relationships between handedness and developmental disorder, and genetics of specific language impairment. In 1991, Dorothy moved to take up a post as a Senior Scientist at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge where she continued her studies of genetics of SLI, and also embarked on new studies of auditory processing in specific language impairment. In 1998 she was awarded a Principal Research Fellowship by the Wellcome Trust, which allowed her to establish a research group based at Oxford University dedicated to the study of children’s communication impairments. This was renewed in 2008 for a further 10 years. She has published books on handedness and developmental disorders, language development in exceptional circumstances, and children’s comprehension, as well as numerous research articles. She is a fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences and has a supernumerary fellowship at St John’s College, Oxford.

Other writing

Dorothy's novel, the Case of the Fremantle Fingers, is available as a Kindle e-book.