improvement of natural knowledge". Her nomination reads: Bishop is also a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci). She has honorary degrees from Lund University, the University of Western Australia and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Personal life Bishop married Patrick Rabbitt in 1976. As "Deevy Bishop", Bishop has written several humorous crime novels for Amazon Kindle. Bishop is an avid blogger which demonstrates her interests beyond language impairments. The blog received the runner up recognition for the Good Thinking Society: UK Science Blog Prize 2012. References 1952 births Living people 20th-century British scientists 20th-century British women scientists 21st-century British scientists 21st-century British women scientists British psychologists British women psychologists Academics of the University of Oxford Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford Female Fellows of the Royal Society Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellows