Elizabeth Kuipers


Elizabeth Alice Kuipers is a professor of psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and was head of the Psychology Department from 2006- 2012. Kuipers is a consultant clinical psychologist and until 2012, had an honorary appointment at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, working as part of the psychosis community mental health team in Southwark. She is a founding director of the PICuP clinic and was the chair of the NICE Schizophrenia Guideline update 2007-9 and the Psychosis and Schizophrenia update 2011-2014
In 2010 she was given the Shapiro award from the British Psychological Society for clinical psychology and became an Academician of the Social Sciences in 2009.
In 2013 she received a lifetime achievement award from Women in Science and Engineering.
In 2014 she received a lifetime achievement award from the Professional Practice Board of the British Psychological Society.

Selected publications