Patrick Leman

Patrick Leman is a British psychologist and Dean of Education at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London.[1] He was formerly Head of the Department of Psychology and Associate Dean of Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, Chair of the British Psychological Society's Developmental Psychology Section and has held posts at Goldsmiths College London and University of Cambridge. His principal research describes the ways in which children learn through communication with one another, often in informal, classroom contexts. He is Fellow of the British Psychological Society and editor of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology (2014-)

Patrick Leman
Born
Walthamstow, London
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materSt Edmund Hall, Oxford
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
InstitutionsInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London

Career

Research

Leman has published many papers in developmental and social psychology, often from an experimental perspective, across areas including communication, gender, ethnicity and race, decision-making and learning applied to child development.[2] His early work on peer conversation with Gerard Duveen[3] developed new methods for understanding children's co-construction of knowledge that has subsequently become a core area of research in European developmental psychology.[4]

He has also examined the role of gender in children's learning and, more recently, focused on issues of ethnicity and race in classroom contexts.[5] Leman's work fuses social, developmental, cognitive and cultural psychology.[6] More recent applied research has developed these theoretical ideas in classroom contexts to promote positive youth development including setting up, with colleagues, the White Water Writers charity.[7]

Other work

Together with colleagues Drs Joe Reddington and Yvonne Skipper, Leman is director of White Water Writers, a not-for-profit organisation that allows young people to write an original novel, collaboratively, in a week. The project has received funding from the Ernest Cook Trust and SHINE Foundation. He has also worked with the Laureus Foundation to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of sport-related interventions projects across the globe. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Dame Alice Owen Foundation and an active member of the British Psychological Society and many other academic bodies.

Leman is Editor of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology[8] and co-author, with Professor Andrew Bremner, of the popular text book "Developmental Psychology."[9]

Biography

Leman was born in Walthamstow, London and grew up in the London suburbs of Leyton and Wanstead. He attended St. Mary's School (Walthamstow), Nightingale School (Wanstead) and Bancroft's School (Woodford Green). He studied Psychology & Philosophy at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and a PhD in Developmental Psychology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His postdoctoral career at University of Cambridge included a period as Director of Studies for Social & Political Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge, where has also led the University's Indicators of Academic Performance Project, the first sustained attempt to understand the sources of gender, ethnic and other differences in university attainment. He took a lectureship post at Goldsmiths University of London and subsequently at Royal Holloway, University of London where he was Head of the Department of Psychology and Associate Dean of Science. He joined King's College London as Dean of Education at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) in 2015.[10] He was briefly Executive Dean[11] and Head of the Institute (2016-) following the departure of Professor Shitij Kapur. Leman lives in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, and is married with four children.

gollark: In any case, how many unicorns are powerful enough to do that sort of thing?
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gollark: Yay!
gollark: ... Discord.

References
  1. "A welcome from the Interim Executive Dean, Professor Patrick Leman". King's College London. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  2. Derbyshire, David. "Truth behind conspiracy theories". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  3. "Gerard Duveen, 1951-2008". Times Higher Education (THE). 4 December 2008. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  4. Psaltis, C. & Zapiti, A. (2014). Interaction, Communication and Development: Psychological Development as a Social Process. UK : Routledge.
  5. Barbieri, Annalisa (16 March 2012). "Problem solved". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  6. Greaney, T.J. "Thrill of conspiracy theories no secret". Columbia Daily Tribune. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  7. "Research". White Water Writers. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  8. "British Journal of Developmental Psychology" (PDF). British Journal of Developmental Psychology. doi:10.1111/(issn)2044-835x.
  9. Leman, P. J., Bremner, A., Parke, R. D. & Gauvain, M. (2013). Developmental Psychology. London: McGraw Hill.
  10. "Welcome from Dean of Education Patrick Leman". King's College London. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  11. "Management team Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience management team". King's College London. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
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