Edmund Sonuga-Barke
Edmund James Stephen Sonuga-Barke, FBA, FMedSci, MAE, (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
[edit]Edmund James Stephen Barke was born in Derby in 1962; he later adopted a double-barrelled surname for his academic work, combining his family name with that of his wife, Funke Sonuga, whom he married in 1987. They have two children.[1][2] He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1984,[3] and four years later the University of Exeter awarded him a doctorate for his thesis "Studies in the development of economic behaviour".[4]
Career
[edit]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.[3][5][6] In 2023 he was elected to the Academia Europaea. [7] In 2019 he was made an Honorary Skou Professor[8] at Aarhus University, Denmark, and in 2023, a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Hong Kong.[9] He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry.[10]
According to the British Academy's profile, his research focuses on "The developmental psychopathology and neuroscience of child and adolescent mental health and disorder".[5] In the field of ADHD he is known for introducing new concepts and theories such as the delay aversion hypothesis,[11] the dual pathway model [12] and the default mode interference hypothesis.[13] Together with Professor Sir Michael Rutter he led the English and Romanian Adoptees study [14] which, discovered how exposure to early childhood severe institutional deprivation can lead to variants of neuro-developmental conditions such as ADHD[15] and autism[16] that strongly persist into adulthood.[17] In 2020, Sonuga-Barke chaired a Lancet Group Commission on 'Institutionalisation and de-institutionalisation of children' [18] which, after a comprehensive review of the literature,[19] concluded with recommendations to "prioritise the role of families in the lives of children to prevent child separation and to strengthen families, to protect children without parental care by providing high-quality family-based alternatives, and to strengthen systems for the protection and care of separated children" .[20]
References
[edit]- ^ "Barke, Prof. Edmund James Stephen, (Prof. Edmund Sonuga-Barke)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2019). Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- ^ "Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke".
- ^ a b "Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke BSc, PhD, FMedSci", University of Southampton. Archived at the Internet Archive on 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Edmund James Stephen Sonuga-Barke, 'Studies in the development of economic behaviour.'", University of Exeter Library Catalogue. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ^ a b "Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke", British Academy. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ^ "Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke", King's College London Research Portal. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ^ "Academy of Europe: Elected members 2022". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
- ^ "Honorary Skou Professors". health.au.dk. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
- ^ "Research Services - Visiting Professors Scheme". www.rss.hku.hk. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
- ^ "Meet the Editors JCPP Archives". ACAMH. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ^ Sonuga-Barke, E. J. S.; Taylor, E.; Sembi, S.; Smith, J. (February 1992). "Hyperactivity and Delay Aversion?I. The Effect of Delay on Choice". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 33 (2): 387–398. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1992.tb00874.x. ISSN 0021-9630. PMID 1564081. S2CID 23165943.
- ^ Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S (2003-11-01). "The dual pathway model of AD/HD: an elaboration of neuro-developmental characteristics". Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. Mesocorticolimbic Branchesand ADHD Variants. 27 (7): 593–604. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2003.08.005. ISSN 0149-7634. PMID 14624804. S2CID 19805306.
- ^ Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S.; Castellanos, F. Xavier (2007-01-01). "Spontaneous attentional fluctuations in impaired states and pathological conditions: A neurobiological hypothesis". Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 31 (7): 977–986. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2007.02.005. ISSN 0149-7634. PMID 17445893. S2CID 16831759.
- ^ London, King's College. "The English and Romanian Adoptee (ERA) Project". King's College London. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
- ^ Kennedy, Mark; Kreppner, Jana; Knights, Nicky; Kumsta, Robert; Maughan, Barbara; Golm, Dennis; Rutter, Michael; Schlotz, Wolff; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J.S. (October 2016). "Early severe institutional deprivation is associated with a persistent variant of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: clinical presentation, developmental continuities and life circumstances in the English and Romanian Adoptees study". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 57 (10): 1113–1125. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12576. ISSN 0021-9630. PMC 5042050. PMID 27264475.
- ^ Rodriguez-Perez, Maria; Kennedy, Mark; Barker, Edward D.; Kreppner, Jana; Solerdelcoll, Mireia; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J.S. (September 2023). "The adult outcome of childhood quasi-autism arising following extreme institutional deprivation". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 64 (9): 1292–1302. doi:10.1111/jcpp.13767. ISSN 0021-9630. PMC 10476691. PMID 36782398.
- ^ Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J S; Kennedy, Mark; Kumsta, Robert; Knights, Nicky; Golm, Dennis; Rutter, Michael; Maughan, Barbara; Schlotz, Wolff; Kreppner, Jana (April 2017). "Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health trajectories after early life deprivation: the young adult follow-up of the longitudinal English and Romanian Adoptees study". The Lancet. 389 (10078): 1539–1548. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(17)30045-4. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-002D-8DC7-7. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 28237264.
- ^ Boyce, Niall; Godsland, Jane; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund (August 2020). "Institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children: the Executive Summary from a Lancet Group Commission". The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. 4 (8): 562–563. doi:10.1016/s2352-4642(20)30089-4. ISSN 2352-4642. PMID 32589874. S2CID 220119014.
- ^ van IJzendoorn, Marinus H; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J; Duschinsky, Robbie; Fox, Nathan A; Goldman, Philip S; Gunnar, Megan R; Johnson, Dana E; Nelson, Charles A; Reijman, Sophie; Skinner, Guy C M; Zeanah, Charles H; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J S (August 2020). "Institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children 1: a systematic and integrative review of evidence regarding effects on development". The Lancet Psychiatry. 7 (8): 703–720. doi:10.1016/s2215-0366(19)30399-2. hdl:1871.1/9fc30f64-9400-4433-9324-d303f80d9d61. ISSN 2215-0366. PMID 32589867. S2CID 220120387.
- ^ Goldman, Philip S; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J; Bradford, Beth; Christopoulos, Alex; Ken, Patricia Lim Ah; Cuthbert, Christopher; Duchinsky, Robbie; Fox, Nathan A; Grigoras, Stela; Gunnar, Megan R; Ibrahim, Rawan W; Johnson, Dana; Kusumaningrum, Santi; Agastya, Ni Luh Putu Maitra; Mwangangi, Frederick M (August 2020). "Institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children 2: policy and practice recommendations for global, national, and local actors". The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. 4 (8): 606–633. doi:10.1016/s2352-4642(20)30060-2. ISSN 2352-4642. PMC 7311356. PMID 32589873.
