Edmund Sonuga-Barke

Edmund James Stephen Sonuga-Barke, FBA, FMedSci (born 1962) is a developmental psychologist and academic. He has held professorships at King's College London (since 2017) and the University of Southampton (1997–2017).

Early life and education

Edmund James Stephen Barke was born in Derby in 1962 to David Barke and Carmel, née Hughes; he later double-barrelled his surname with that of wife, Funke Sonuga, whom he married in 1987.[1] He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1984,[2] and four years later the University of Exeter awarded him a doctorate for his thesis "Studies in the development of economic behaviour".[3]

Career

After a year as a research psychologist at the University of London, Sonuga-Barke was appointed to a lectureship at the Institute of Psychiatry in 1988. The next year, he moved to the University of Southampton where he was lecturer (1989–95), reader (1995–97) and professor (from 1997) of developmental psychopathology. He was head of Southampton's Department of Psychology from 1997 to 2002. In 2017, Sonuga-Barke joined King's College London as Professor of Developmental Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience. In 2016, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and in 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[2][4][5]

According to the British Academy's profile, his research focuses on "The developmental psychopathology and neuroscience of child and adolescent mental health and disorder".[4]

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References
  1. "Barke, Prof. Edmund James Stephen, (Prof. Edmund Sonuga-Barke)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2019). Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  2. "Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke BSc, PhD, FMedSci", University of Southampton. Archived at the Internet Archive on 28 June 2017.
  3. "Edmund James Stephen Sonuga-Barke, 'Studies in the development of economic behaviour.'", University of Exeter Library Catalogue. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  4. "Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke", British Academy. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  5. "Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke", King's College London Research Portal. Retrieved 10 September 2018.


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