Richard Bentall#
| Membership Number: | 7266 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/psychology/people/academic/richard-bentall |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7561-2923 |
| X: | @BentallProf |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK
- 2011 - 2017 Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, UK
- 2007 - 2010 Professor of Clinical Psychology, Bangor University, UK
- 1999 - 2010 Professor of Experimental Clinical Psychology, University of Manchester, UK
- 1994 - 1999 Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, UK
- 1991 - 1994 Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, UK
- 1986 - 1991 Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, UK
- 1985 - 1986 Senior Clinical Psychologist, Merseyside Regional Forensic Psychiatry Service, UK
- 1984 - 11985 Basic Grade Clinical Psychologist, Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Social determinants of severe mental illness
- Severe mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder)
- Psychological treatment of severe mental illness
- Human belief systems
- Psychological response to pandemics
- Psychology of hallucinations
- Psychiatric classification
- Psychology of delusions
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Elected Fellow of the British Academy
- 2009 Hood Fellowship, University of Auckland.
- 1994 Elected Fellow of the British Psychological Society
- 1990 Recipient of the British Psychological Society May Davidson Award
