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Barbara Tizard is a British psychologist and professor emeritus at the Institute of Education, University of London. She was born on 16 April 1926 in London, England. Tizard studied psychology at the University of London, and received her PhD in 1954. She was a professor of psychology at the Institute of Education, University of London from 1965 to 1991. Tizard is best known for her research on the development of children in foster care, which she conducted with her colleague, Alec Robertson. Their research, which began in the 1960s, was the first to compare the development of children in foster care with that of children in their biological families. Tizard has also conducted research on the development of children with disabilities, the effects of poverty on children, and the development of children in residential care. She has written numerous books and articles on these topics. Tizard is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She was awarded the British Psychological Society's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. Tizard is married to Alec Robertson, with whom she has two children. She is 89 years old.

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1997

In 1997, Tizard was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. She was also an elected Fellow of the British Psychological Society (FBPsS).

1963

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.

1947

The then Barbara Parker met Jack Tizard while she was studying at the University of Oxford. Unusually for the time, she was given permission to marry while still an undergraduate, and they did so in 1947. Together they had five children. Her husband predeceased her, dying in 1979.

1926

Barbara Patricia Tizard, 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.

Tizard was born on 16 April 1926 in West Ham, London, England. Her parents divorced when she was seven, and she was then raised by her single mother. Having won a scholarship, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, an all-girls independent school in London. She matriculated into Somerville College, Oxford in 1944 to study medicine but changed to Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) after a year. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. 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".