#19 Dorothy Bishop: Overcoming Our Biases

Careful work and self-criticism is not rewarded enough in
today's accelerated research culture, Dorothy Bishop thinks.
A jury member of the 2021 Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting
Quality in Research, the Professor of Developmental
Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford advocates for
evidence-driven, open science practices and a new incentive
structure. As a psychologist, she studied specific language
impairments in children and showed that some of the disposition
is genetic, which helped to get rid of the misconception
that merely parents are to blame when a child is struggling with
speach. In the interview, the experienced teacher and mentor
shares her ideas how to increase public trust in science and
encourages every scholar who encounters systemic problems to try
and change them.