Judith Dunn

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Judith Dunn
Born
Judith Frances Pace

1939 (age 8485)
NationalityBritish
Spouses
  • Martin Bernal (1961–?; div)
(m. 1973;div. 1987)
(m. 1987)
ChildrenThree
Academic background
Alma mater
Institutions

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

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Early life and education

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

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

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

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

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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