Vaughan Bell

{{short description|British clinical psychologist|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Vaughan Bell | citizenship = United Kingdom | alma_mater = Cardiff University | occupation = Clinical Psychologist }}

'''Vaughan Bell''' is a British clinical psychologist, currently at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust specialising in psychological interventions for psychotic outpatients and in training other professionals to deal with such patients. He is a clinical senior lecturer in the Division of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Brain Sciences at University College London and a visiting researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. His research focus includes neuropsychology, social cognition, psychosis and brain damage.<ref>[http://www.national.slam.nhs.uk/about-us/our-experts/dr-vaughan-bell/ SLaM National Services: Our Experts] Retrieved July 20, 2016</ref><ref>[https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=VBELL56 UCL Profiles Vaughan Bell]</ref>

==Education== Bell did his PhD at Cardiff University, he chose the cognitive neuropsychiatry of psychosis as his research topic. He completed his clinical training at the Institute of psychiatry at King's College London. He specialised in psychosis and neuropsychology and graduated with a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.national.slam.nhs.uk/|title=National Services|date=|access-date=2020-05-12|website=National Services|last=|archive-date=21 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521174044/https://www.national.slam.nhs.uk/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Career== Bell has been the most regular contributor to the Mind Hacks science blog, starting in 2002. In 2012 he won the Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media.<ref>[http://www.austenriggs.org/erikson-institute-prize-excellence-mental-health-media Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media] Austen Riggs Centre, Retrieved July 20, 2016</ref> In 2014 he and academic Tom Stafford received the British Psychological Society’s Public Engagement and Media Award.<ref>[http://www.bps.org.uk/news/mindhackscom-receives-bps-public-engagement-and-media-award Mindhacks.com receives BPS Award] BPS website, 19/11/2014</ref>

Bell has written articles on psychology and neuroscience for several newspapers and magazines, including ''The Guardian'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/vaughan-bell|title=Vaughan Bell|author=Vaughan Bell|work=the Guardian}}</ref> ''Discover'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://discovermagazine.com/authors?name=Vaughan+Bell|title=Discover Magazine: The latest in science and technology news, blogs and articles - Authors|work=Discover Magazine}}</ref> ''Slate'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/authors.vaughan_bell.html|title=Vaughan Bell|work=Slate Magazine}}</ref> ''Wired UK'',<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/search/author/Vaughan+Bell|title=Articles (Wired UK)|magazine=Wired UK}}</ref> ''The Independent''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/biography/vaughan-bell-10228669.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705210943/http://www.independent.co.uk/biography/vaughan-bell-10228669.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 5, 2015|title=Vaughan Bell - The Independent|work=The Independent}}</ref> and ''The Atlantic''.<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/author/vaughan-bell/ The Atlantic: Vaughan Bell]</ref> He was interviewed in 2005 by the influential journal ''Nature'' about his experience as a scientist editing Wikipedia, specifically in challenging a section on violence in the schizophrenia article.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Giles Jim | year = 2005 | title = Internet Encyclopaedias Go Head to Head | url = | journal = Nature | volume = 438 | issue = 7070| pages = 900–901 | doi = 10.1038/438900a | pmid = 16355180 }}</ref>

A fluent Spanish speaker, for several years he undertook teaching and clinical work at university facilities in Colombia and worked as a mental health coordinator for Médecins sans Frontières in difficult conditions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://addiction-dirkh.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/interview-with-research-psychologist.html|title=Addiction Inbox|work=addiction-dirkh.blogspot.co.uk}}</ref>

==Further reading== *[https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-28/january-2015/are-understandings-mental-illness-mired-past Are understandings of mental illness mired in the past?] John Cromby ('yes') and Vaughan Bell ('no') go 'head to head'. * [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/mar/03/brain-not-simple-folk-neuroscience Our brains, and how they're not as simple as we think.] Neuroscience has entered the public consciousness, and changed the way we talk about ourselves. But much of what passes as knowledge is inaccurate.

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