Marie Johnston is a British psychologist who specialises in health psychology. She is an Emeritus Professor at the

University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; ) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bis ...

Biography

After getting her BSc at the

, Johnston later moved to the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hu ...

, where she got her PhD in 1970. After working at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

as a postdoctoral fellow (1970-1977). she worked as a lecturer at the Royal Free and University College Medical School from 1977 until 1990, when she moved to the

University of St Andrews The University of St Andrews (, ; abbreviated as St And in post-nominals) is a public university in St Andrews, Scotland. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest of the four ancient universities of Scotland and, f ...

and became a professor. While at St Andrews, she was appointed Chair of Psychology in 1992. In 2003, she moved to the

and remained professor until 2011, when she was promoted to emeritus professor. As an academic, Johnston specialises in health psychology. She has also served as chair of the

British Psychological Society The British Psychological Society (BPS) is a representative body for psychologists and psychology in the United Kingdom. History It was founded on 24 October 1901 at University College London (UCL) as ''The Psychological Society'', the org ...

(BPS) Health Psychology division (1986) and as president of the European Health Psychology Society (1992). In 1994, she was awarded the BPS's

Presidents' Award The Presidents' Award is an mid-career award of the British Psychological Society's Research Board, given in recognition of outstanding published work in psychology. Nominees will have made a major outstanding contribution in particular sub-fields ...

for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge. She has also authored or edited several books related to health psychology. Johnston was elected

Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) is an award for medical scientists who are judged by the UK Academy of Medical Sciences for the "excellence of their science, their contribution to medicine and society and the range of the ...

and

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

in 1998. She was elected Fellow of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences in 2000. She was appointed Fellow of the European Health Psychology Society in 2005. In addition to her 1988 regular fellowship, she was elected Honorary Fellow of the

in 2011. She is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

References

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