Prof Edmund Sonuga-Barke

Edmund is a developmental psychologist who studies the causes, course and developmental consequences of mental health and neuro-developmental conditions. Motivated by his own childhood experience of learning and behavioural difficulties, he has devoted his research career to improving the life chances of young people, especially those with neurodevelopmental conditions, such as ADHD. To this end he has developed new ways of thinking about and studying neurodevelopment using experimental developmental neuroscience methods and theories. Most recently, through his RE-STAR programme, he has pioneered a new way of doing science, by placing young people with autism and ADHD at the heart of the research team where they can have a direct influence of the scientific process – contributing new perspectives, hypotheses, methods, interpretations of findings and strategies of creative knowledge exchange.