Dorothy Bishop

Dorothy studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford University and Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry before returning to Oxford to do a DPhil at the Neuropsychology Unit in the Radcliffe Infirmary.

She is currently based at the Department of Experimental Psychology in Oxford, where she is a Principal Research Fellow funded by the Wellcome Trust, and heads a programme of research into children's communication impairments.

Her main scientific contributions include a synthesis of work on children's comprehension disorders in her book 'Uncommon Understanding', development of widely used assessments of children’s language (the Test for Reception of Grammar and the Children's Communication Checklist), specification of phenotype-genotype relationships in language disorders, and clarification of the diagnostic boundaries between autism and language impairment.

Professor Bishop is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy, and has honorary doctorates from the University of Lund, Sweden and the University of Western Australia. She holds a supernumerary fellowship at St John's College, Oxford.

She is interested in public engagement and enjoys blogging as a way of communicating about topical and controversial issues with a broader audience. Her blog was runner-up in 2012 for the Good Thinking Society's prize for UK Science Blog of the Year.