Dorothy Bishop

Dorothy Bishop recently retired as Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford, where she conducted full-time research, funded by Wellcome Trust and ERC. She is an honorary fellow of St John’s College Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences.

She has published substantial books and papers on the nature and causes of developmental language disorder, focusing on psycholinguistics, neurobiology and genetics. Beyond psychology, she is active in the field of open science and research reproducibility, and in retirement has taken up academic fraud-busting.

She is active on social media, with a popular blog, Bishopblog.