{{Short description|Clinical psychologist}} {{Use British English|date=September 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = Professor Dame | name = Til Wykes | honorific_suffix = DBE | image = Til Wykes at Web Summit 2018.jpg | image_size = | alt = Til Wykes in 2018 | caption = | birth_name = Hilary Margaret Wykes | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1953|3}} | birth_place = United Kingdom | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Psychologist | spouse = Bryn Davies, Baron Davies of Brixton | website = {{URL|http://www.tilwykes.com}} }}
'''Dame Til Wykes, Lady Davies''', DBE (born March 1953)<ref>[http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/8540969/DR-TIL-WYKES Profile (with year of birth)], checkcompany.co.uk; accessed 15 June 2016.</ref> is an English academic, author and editor.
==Career== Born '''Hilary Margaret Wykes''', she is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation and formally Head of the School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences at King's College London, Senior Mental Health spokesperson for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and President of the Schizophrenia International Research Society.<ref name="IoP: Staff: Wykes, Til">{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=10639|title=IoP: Staff: Wykes, Til|publisher=Institute of Psychiatry|date=14 December 2010|access-date=22 January 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/divisions/psychology/about-us.aspx "Welcome from Vice-Dean"]. King's College London; retrieved 11 September 2015.</ref><ref>[https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/news/records/2018/february/IoPPN-Professors-announced-as-President-and-Secretary-of-Schizophrenia-International-Research-Society.aspx "IoPPN Professors announced as President and Secretary of Schizophrenia International Research Society"]</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=One on one…with Professor Dame Til Wykes |url=https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-29/july/one-onewith-professor-dame-til-wykes-feistiness-face-challenge |access-date=8 February 2022}}</ref>
She is known for her work on Cognitive Remediation Therapy, for championing service user involvement in all mental health research and mental health research policy at King's College London.<ref>Wykes, Til; Reeder, Clare (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=hS4XHbbmz2wC ''Cognitive Remediation Therapy for Schizophrenia{{spaced ndash}}Theory and Practice'']. Routledge; {{ISBN|9780203098707}}.</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1=Wykes, Til |author2=Reeder, Clare |url=http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/190/5/421.full|title=Cognitive Remediation Therapy in Schizophrenia|journal=British Journal of Psychiatry|date=May 2007|volume=190|issue=5|pages=421–27|doi=10.1192/bjp.bp.106.026575|display-authors=etal|pmid=17470957|doi-access=free}}</ref>
==Research== Her research is focused on rehabilitation and recovery for people with severe mental illness both in the development of services and the development and evaluation of innovative psychological treatments. Her main current research themes concentrate on how to improve thinking difficulties so people can take advantage of opportunities for recovery and how to increase therapeutic activities in acute mental health services and work in digital mental health initiatives.<ref name="IoP: Staff: Wykes, Til"/>
==Other work== Wykes was the director of the NIHR's Mental Health Research Network<ref name=MHRNpeople>{{cite web|url=http://www.mhrn.info/pages/mhrn-executive-committee.html|title=MHRN Executive Committee|publisher=Mental Health Research Network|date= 27 September 2010|access-date=22 January 2012}}</ref> until April 2015 when she became the National Specialty lead for Mental Health and in 2018 the NIHR senior spokesperson on mental health. She mainly carries out research on developing psychological treatments for schizophrenia. She founded and was the first director of the Service User Research Enterprise (SURE) which employs expert researchers who have experience of using mental health services.<ref name=historyofsure>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iop/depts/hspr/research/ciemh/sure/index.aspx|title=Service User Research Enterprise (SURE)|publisher=King's College London|access-date=22 January 2012}}</ref> Since 2002, she has been the executive editor of the ''Journal of Mental Health''.<ref>{{cite journal|title='Next Steps' on JMH – Reform and Consolidation|author=Wykes, Til|journal=Journal of Mental Health|volume=11|issue=3|date=June 2002|pages=231–34|doi=10.1080/09638230120020023615|s2cid=71732925}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2003/aug/10/mentalhealth.film|title=Kids' Films Stigmatise Mentally Ill – New Research Claims that Family Movies Give Dangerous Impression of Madness|author=McKie, Robin|work=The Observer|date=10 August 2003|access-date=8 February 2012}}</ref> She is also a member of the scientific advisory board of Psyberguide<ref name=psyberguide>{{cite web|url=http://psyberguide.org/about/scientific-advisory-board|title=Scientific Advisory Board|publisher=PsyberGuide|access-date=11 September 2015}}</ref> and the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute as well as a trustee of the charity, Weight Concern.
==Awards== Wykes has received three awards from the British Psychological Society's, the M.B. Shapiro Award<ref name=shapiro>{{cite journal|url=http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=22&editionID=177&ArticleID=1538|title=M.B. Shapiro Award Professor Til Wykes|journal=The Psychologist|date=July 2009|volume=22|issue=9|page=610}}</ref> given to "a clinical psychologist who has achieved eminence in the profession", and the May Davidson Award<ref name=maydavidson>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iop/news/records/2009/06June/AwardsannouncedforIoPStaff.aspx|title=Awards announced for IoP Staff|publisher=King's College London|date=3 June 2009}}</ref> for a "psychologist who has made an outstanding contribution to the development of clinical psychology within the first 10 years of their work" and the 2014 Award for Promoting Equality of Opportunity for "her part in championing the active role of mental health service users in research".<ref name=britishpsysoc>{{cite web|url=http://www.bps.org.uk/news/british-psychological-society-fellow-receives-equality-award|website=British Psychological Society|access-date=30 December 2015|title=Til Wykes receives British Psychological Society's 2014 Award for Promoting Equality of Opportunity}}</ref> For all this work she was awarded a damehood by the Queen in the 2016 New Year Honours.
Wykes received the Order of Merit, Fukushima Society of Medical Science, Japan (2005), the Marie Kessel Award for Outstanding Contributions to Psychiatric Rehabilitation (2012) and an NIHR Senior Investigator. She is also a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. In addition she was selected as the winner of the EPA Constance Pascal – Helen Boyle Prize for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in Working to Improve Mental Health Care in Europe for 2020.<ref name="European Psychiatric Association">{{cite web |title=2020 Winner: EPA Constance Pascal – Helen Boyle Prize |url=https://www.europsy.net/pascal-boyle-prize/2020-winner/ |website=EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION}}</ref>
She also carries out public involvement and on 21 March 2017, together with Hussain Manawer, she won a Guinness World Record for the largest mental health lesson, given on 21 March 2017 to 538 students at the Hackney Empire.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/22/its-good-to-talk-pupils-gather-for-worlds-largest-mental-health-lesson|website=The Guardian|access-date=26 March 2017|title=It's good to talk: pupils gather for world's largest mental health lesson|date=22 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2017/3/video-largest-mental-health-awareness-lesson-organised-by-campaigner-hussain-man-466502|website=Guinness World Records|access-date=28 March 2017|title=Video: Largest mental health awareness lesson organised by campaigner Hussain Manawer|date=23 March 2017}}</ref>
She has also won the Lifetime Achievement Award in Research from the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) for her contributions to developing, testing, and implementing novel treatments for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.<ref name="Lifetime Achievement Award">{{cite web |title=Lifetime Achievement Award |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/professor-dame-til-wykes-receives-2022-lifetime-achievement-award-in-research |access-date=19 April 2023}}</ref>
==Selected papers== *{{cite journal|author1=Wykes, Til |author2=Reeder, Clare |year=2007|title=Cognitive Remediation Therapy in Schizophrenia, Randomised Controlled Trial|journal=British Journal of Psychiatry|volume=190|pages=421–27|doi=10.1192/bjp.bp.106.026575|url=http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/190/5/421|display-authors=etal|pmid=17470957|doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal|author1=Wykes Til |author2=Huddy V. |author3=Cellard C. |author4=McGurk S.R. |author5=Czobor P. |year=2011|title=A Meta-Analysis of Cognitive Remediation for Schizophrenia: Methodology and Effect Sizes|journal=American Journal of Psychiatry|volume=168|issue=5|pages=472–85|doi=10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.10060855|pmid=21406461}}
==See also== {{portal|Biography|Psychology}} * List of psychologists * List of University of London people * Hearing Voices Movement
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==External links== * [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/news/records/2014/October/professor-til-wykes-receives-equality-of-opportunity-award.aspx Profile], kcl.ac.uk; accessed 15 June 2016.
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