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Judith Dunn

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Judith Dunn
Born
Judith Frances Pace

1939 (age 84–85)
NationalityBritish
Spouses
  • Martin Bernal (1961–?; div)
(m. 1973; div. 1987)
(m. 1987)
ChildrenThree
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplinePsychology
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Judith Frances Dunn, FBA, FMedSci (nee Pace, born 1939) is a British psychologist and academic, who specialises in social developmental psychology.

Early life and education

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Dunn was the daughter of James Pace and Jean Stewart and was born in Hitchen, Hertfordshire. She studied at New Hall, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1962; as per tradition, her BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree in 1968. While a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, she undertook postgraduate research and she completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1982.[1]

Academic career

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From 1978 to 1986, Dunn was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and a Medical Research Council Senior Scientific Officer.[1][2] From 1986 to 1995, she was Professor of Human Development at Pennsylvania State University.[1] In 1994, she was made an Evan Pugh Professor;[3] an Evan Pugh Professorship is the "highest honor the institution can give to a member of its faculty".[4] From 1995 to 2012, she was Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.[1][2][5]

Dunn specializes in children's social emotional and sociocognitive development, parent-child, sibling and peer relationships, and the development of language and communication abilities.[6][7]

Other work

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Dunn is Chair of The Children's Society's Good Childhood Inquiry, established in 2006, which explores and measures children’s subjective well-being.[8][9]

Personal life

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In 1961, the then Judith Pace married Martin Gardiner Bernal, a British scholar of modern Chinese political history who also wrote the controversial Black Athena.[1][10] Together, they had one daughter and twin sons.[10] They later divorced.[1] From 1973 to 1987, she was married to John Montfort Dunn, a British political theorist, before they too divorced.[1] In 1987, she married the American psychologist Robert Plomin.[1]

Honours

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In 1996, Dunn was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for humanities and social sciences.[2] In 2000, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).[1]

Selected works

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  • Dunn, Judy (1988). The beginnings of social understanding. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674064539.
  • Booth, Alan; Dunn, Judith F., eds. (1994). Stepfamilies: who benefits? who does not?. Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum. ISBN 978-0805815443.
  • Alan Booth; Judith F. Dunn, eds. (1996), Family-School Links: How Do They Affect Educational Outcomes?, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, ISBN 0805818405
  • Dunn, Judith; Deater-Deckard, Kirby (2001), Children's views of their changing families, Family change series, York Publishing Services, ISBN 9781842630310

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "DUNN, Prof. Judith Frances". Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. November 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "Professor Judith Dunn". British Academy. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Evan Pugh Professors". Office of the Vice President for Research. The Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Three faculty members named Evan Pugh University Professors". Penn State News. The Pennsylvania State University. 28 April 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  5. ^ "IoP: staff: Dunn, Judith F". Iop.kcl.ac.uk. 13 September 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  6. ^ "Judith Dunn - Biography - Research Portal, King's College, London". Kclpure.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  7. ^ "MRC Professorship for Plomin and Dunn - Research Portal, King's College, London". Kclpure.kcl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  8. ^ "The Good Childhood® Inquiry". Childrenssociety.org.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  9. ^ Reitemeier, Bob (19 September 2006). "Everyone has a stake in childhood". The Telegraph.
  10. ^ a b Blue, Gregory (21 June 2013). "Martin Bernal obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 April 2017.