Judith Dunn

Dunn was the daughter of James Pace and Jean Stewart. 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]

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]

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]

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]

• 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