Barbara Tizard

{{Short description|British psychologist (1926–2015)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{EngvarB|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =  | name = Barbara Patricia Tizard | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FBA|FBPsS}} | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = Barbara Patricia Parker | birth_date = 16 April 1926 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|4 January 2015|16 April 1926}} | death_place = | death_cause = | region = | nationality = | citizenship = | residence = | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | home_town = | title = | boards =  | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards =  | website = | education = | alma_mater = Somerville College, Oxford | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era = | discipline = Psychology | sub_discipline =  | workplaces = Institute of Psychiatry, University of London | doctoral_students =  | notable_students =  | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Barbara Patricia Tizard''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|FBA|FBPsS}} (née '''Parker'''; 16 April 1926 – 4 January 2015) was a British psychologist and academic, specialising in developmental psychology. She was Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London from 1980 to 1990, and Professor of Education from 1982 to 1990.

==Early life and education== Tizard was born on 16 April 1926 in West Ham, London, England.<ref name="WWW" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-111793|title=Tizard (née Parker), Barbara Patricia (1926–2015), developmental psychologist |work= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year=2019 |doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.111793|access-date=9 October 2019|last1=Phoenix |first1=Ann |last2=Brannen |first2=Julia |last3=Moss |first3=Peter |isbn=9780198614128 }}</ref> Her parents divorced when she was seven, and she was then raised by her single mother.<ref name="bio G" /> Having won a scholarship, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, an all-girls private school in London.<ref name="bio G" /> She matriculated into Somerville College, Oxford in 1944 to study medicine but changed to Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) after a year.<ref name="bio G" /><ref name="obit SCR" /> She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.<ref name="WWW" /> She later undertook part-time postgraduate studies at the University of London, and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree on the "psychological effects of brain damage".<ref name="bio G" /><ref name="obit SCR" />

==Academic career== Tizard was a lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry between 1963 and 1967. She joined the Institute of Education (IOE), University of London in 1967. She was Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, from 1980 to 1990, and Professor of Education from 1982 to 1990. She retired from the IOE in 1990 and was appointed Professor Emeritus by the University of London.<ref name="WWW">{{cite web |title=Tizard, Prof. Barbara |website=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U37783 |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-37783 |date=1 December 2016|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 }}</ref><ref name="bio G">{{cite news |last1=Brannen |first1=Julia |last2=Phoenix |first2=Ann |title=Barbara Tizard obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/13/barbara-tizard |work=The Guardian |date=13 January 2015 }}</ref><ref name="obit SCR">{{cite news |last1=Harrison |first1=Pauline |title=Barbra Tizard (Parker, 1944) |url=https://issuu.com/somervillecollege/docs/somerville-college-report-2015-onli/46 |access-date=18 June 2018 |work=Somerville College Report |date=14 October 2015 |page=46}}</ref><ref name="obit P">{{cite journal |last1=Brannen |first1=Julia |last2=Moss |first2=Peter |last3=Phoenix |first3=Ann |title=Barbara Tizard (1926–2015) |journal=The Psychologist |date=March 2015 |volume=28 |pages=172–181 |url=https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-28/march-2015/barbara-tizard-1926-2015 |access-date=18 June 2018}}</ref>

==Personal life== The then Barbara Parker met Jack Tizard while she was studying at the University of Oxford.<ref name="obit SCR" /> Unusually for the time, she was given permission to marry while still an undergraduate, and they did so in 1947.<ref name="obit SCR" /> Together they had five children.<ref name="WWW" /><ref name="obit SCR" /> Her husband predeceased her, dying in 1979.<ref name="WWW" />

==Honours== In 1997, Tizard was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.<ref name="FBA">{{cite web |title=Professor Barbara Tizard |url=https://britac.ac.uk/fellows/professor-barbara-tizard |website=British Academy |access-date=18 June 2018 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> She was also an elected Fellow of the British Psychological Society (FBPsS).<ref name="WWW" /><ref name="obit P" />

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