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Dorothy Bishop
Dorothy Bishop is a psychologist based at the University of…
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Dorothy Bishop is a psychologist based at the University of Oxford, where she heads a programme of research funded by the European Research Council. She is a supernumerary fellow of St John’s College Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Her main research interests are in the nature and causes of developmental language difficulties, with a particular focus on psycholinguistics, neurobiology and genetics. Her book Uncommon Understanding won the British Psychological Society's annual award in 1999, and she has published widely on children's language disorders. In 2015 Dorothy chaired a symposium on Reproducibility in Biomedical Science organised by the Academy of Medical Sciences, Wellcome Trust, MRC, and BBSRC. She has a popular blog, Bishopblog, which features posts on a wide range of topics, including those relevant to research reproducibility. She is also on Twitter as @deevybee.