Monte Shapiro Lifetime Achievement Award 2024 winners announced

We are pleased to announce that the Monte Shapiro Lifetime Achievement Award for 2024 has been given jointly to two exceptional clinical psychologists. It is a measure of their standing that for the first time in the history of the Award that it has been given jointly.

Professor Mike Slade

Professor Mike Slade trained initially as a computer scientist and mental health nurse and since qualifying as a clinical psychologist and securing his first consultant post, he has provided professional leadership across a diverse range of multidisciplinary teams and implemented many service developments, audits and evaluation initiatives.

As an academic clinical psychologist, he's applied his expertise to a significant body of applied research. This work has been supported by many successful grant applications and disseminated through numerous influential peer reviewed journals, alongside books, chapters, professional journal publications and conference presentations. Professor Slade has held positions at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, a number of International Professorial University positions in Australia and Norway and is currently Professor of Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion at the University of Nottingham.

Professor Mike Slade is internationally recognised for his work on mental health recovery, conceptually and practically. His particular contributions include, the globally-used CHIME framework characterising the key processes in mental health recovery, developing and disseminating first in the field recovery interventions including Positive Psychology for Psychosis, the REFOCUS intervention and the NEON intervention and creating new measures, including the Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN) and the INSPIRE measure of recovery. He has also led novel approaches to Patient and Public Involvement and the development of new methodologies including recently promoting the emergence of a new academic discipline in citizen science for mental health research. This is a richly deserved award for an excellent body of work.

Professor Paul Chadwick

Professor Paul Chadwick has, for more than thirty years, been at the forefront of psychological understanding and treatment of psychosis nationally and internationally. His major contributions include pioneering the emergence of cognitive therapy for 'delusions', developing the first cognitive model of voices, including the foundational concepts of omnipotence and malevolence, identifying two distinct forms of paranoia and originating the theory and practice of mindfulness for psychosis. This research was synthesised for clinicians in two books that shape psychological knowledge and therapy for psychosis. His career shows a sustained commitment to the development of the profession of clinical psychology and the embodiment of the scientist-practitioner as scientific, innovative, collaborative and compassionate.

Professor Paul Chadwick has worked for 25 years in senior management and leadership positions in NHS Clinical Psychology Services and on University Clinical Psychology Programmes. This includes being Head of Adult Mental Health Clinical Psychology Services in Southampton, where he was promoted to Professor at the University of Southampton, followed by an appointment as Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the Clinical Psychology Programme at King's College London. He is currently Professor of Clinical Psychology and founding Director of the Bath Centre for Mindfulness and Compassion at the University of Bath. This is a richly deserved award for a major contribution to research, services and training.

In 1997 he received the British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology May Davidson Award, and in 2008 the British Psychological Society Award for Distinguished Contributions to Professional Psychology.