Background
Bishop was born on 14 February 1952.
Bishop was born on 14 February 1952.
She studied experimental psychology at Street Hugh"s College, Oxford, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973. After graduating she studied at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London where she was awarded a Master of Philosophy degree in 1975. She returned to Oxford where she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Clinical Psychology in 1978 for research supervised by Freda Newcombe.
She is Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology and Wellcome Trust Principal Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, where she has been since 1998. Bishop is Principal Investigator for the Oxford Study of Children"s Communication Impairments (OSCCI). She is a supernumary fellow of Street John"s College, Oxford.
Bishop conducts research into Psychology, Neuroscience, Language and Developmental disorders.
She is one of the co-founders of the video-led campaign, RALLI, which aims to develop awareness of language learning impairments including Specific language impairment. Bishop has published some of her academic work as Doctorate.V.M. Bishop.
This is to avoid any prejudices that may be held against her as a female academic. Her publications include Language development in exceptional circumstances (1988), Handedness and developmental disorders(1990), and Uncommon understanding (1997).
As "Deevy Bishop", Bishop has written three humorous crime novels: The Case of the Fremantle Fingers (2011) The Case of the Brothel in the Bush (2011) The Case of the Disappearing Dongle (2012).
Bishop was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014. Her nomination reads: Dorothy Bishop is the leading researcher on developmental disorders affecting language and communication. Her work has been foundational for the genetics of developmental disorders: she has been a pioneer in the use of twin data to reveal genetic contributions to language disorders, using theoretically motivated measures to refine the heritable phenotype. She has devised measures that differentiate types of language impairment and are now indispensable for both research and clinical diagnosis. By comparing and contrasting dyslexia, specific language impairment and autism, Bishop has challenged views of these as discrete conditions, and illuminated what is shared and distinctive about each disorder. Bishop is also a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci). She has honorary degrees from Lund University, the University of Western Australia and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Royal Society.
