Latest DCP award winners announced

Monte Shapiro Lifetime Achievement

This year, the award goes to Dr Andy Tyerman for the work throughout his career as a neuropsychologist and the impact that he has had on shaping the face of neurorehabilitation for patients with acquired brain injury. He has been at the vanguard of a sea change in the way neurorehabilitation has been conceptualised and delivered. 

His focus on issues of identity, emotion and relationships has transformed our approach to working with people with acquired brain injury. His work through his publications, including the development of practice guidelines, conference presentations and convincing argument has successfully influenced policy and practice at a local, regional, national and international level. The DCP is honoured to be able to present Dr Andy Tyreman with this award.

May Davidson Award for contribution in the first 10 years of a career

This award goes to Associate Professor Judith Johnson of Leeds University. She has made a significant contribution to understanding the relationship between healthcare staff's wellbeing and patient outcomes. Not content with demonstrating this relationship she has developed and successfully evaluated an intervention (Reboot) to address staff wellbeing. This work is reflected in her successful grant applications, publications, conference presentations, practice and impact on policy development. 

She has developed a communication and coaching approach for sonographers, a framework for understanding resilience and the resilience appraisal scale. She has produced the first practical guide to conducting meta-ethnography. The breadth and depth of this work leads the DCP to be proud to be able to present Associate Professor Judith Johnson with this award.

Trainee Research Excellence Award

This year, the award goes to Dr Alex Lau-Zhu, who has completed the Oxford clinical psychology programme. His research work as a trainee is outstanding. He has published his quality improvement project on understanding digital risks for youths and his five case reports in areas that included a single case experimental design testing a CBT approach for health anxiety with OCD features, narrative therapy for an adult with Down's syndrome and a novel CFT-based group for young people with developmental trauma. 

His highly innovative major theory driven project on understanding the differences between autism and developmental trauma has led to two publications. The findings were welcomed by families, schools and the charitable organisations involved. The DCP is proud to be able to present the award to Dr Alex Lau-Zhu, and looks forward to seeing his future contributions.