Edmund Sonuga-Barke Explained

Edmund James Stephen Sonuga-Barke,, (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

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, and four years later the University of Exeter awarded him a doctorate for his thesis "Studies in the development of economic behaviour".[3]

Career

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.[4] [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]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-291429 "Barke, Prof. Edmund James Stephen, (Prof. Edmund Sonuga-Barke)"
  2. Web site: Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke.
  3. https://lib.exeter.ac.uk/record=b1411077~S6 "Edmund James Stephen Sonuga-Barke, 'Studies in the development of economic behaviour.'"
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20170628074912/http://www.southampton.ac.uk/song/about/staff/ejb3.page "Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke BSc, PhD, FMedSci"
  5. https://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-edmund-sonuga-barke "Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke"
  6. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/edmund.sonuga-barke.html "Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke"
  7. Web site: Academy of Europe: Elected members 2022 . 2023-07-11 . www.ae-info.org.
  8. Web site: Honorary Skou Professors . 2023-12-26 . health.au.dk . en.
  9. Web site: Research Services - Visiting Professors Scheme . 2023-12-26 . www.rss.hku.hk.
  10. Web site: Meet the Editors JCPP Archives . 2022-03-18 . ACAMH . en-GB.
  11. 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 . 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1992.tb00874.x . 1564081 . 23165943 . 0021-9630.
  12. 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 . en . 27 . 7 . 593–604 . 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2003.08.005 . 14624804 . 19805306 . 0149-7634.
  13. 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 . en . 31 . 7 . 977–986 . 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2007.02.005 . 17445893 . 16831759 . 0149-7634.
  14. Web site: London . King's College . The English and Romanian Adoptee (ERA) Project . 2023-12-26 . King's College London . en.
  15. 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 . en . 57 . 10 . 1113–1125 . 10.1111/jcpp.12576 . 0021-9630 . 5042050 . 27264475.
  16. 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 . en . 64 . 9 . 1292–1302 . 10.1111/jcpp.13767 . 0021-9630 . 10476691 . 36782398.
  17. 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 . 10.1016/s0140-6736(17)30045-4 . 0140-6736. free . 28237264 . 11858/00-001M-0000-002D-8DC7-7 . free .
  18. 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 . 10.1016/s2352-4642(20)30089-4 . 32589874 . 220119014 . 2352-4642.
  19. 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 . 10.1016/s2215-0366(19)30399-2 . 32589867 . 2215-0366. 1871.1/9fc30f64-9400-4433-9324-d303f80d9d61 . 220120387 . free .
  20. 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 . 10.1016/s2352-4642(20)30060-2 . 2352-4642 . 7311356 . 32589873.

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