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John Clibbens FRSocMed (born 1953) is Professor of Developmental Psychology at Birmingham City University, Head of Social Sciences at Birmingham City University, a committee member of DASSH UK and an authority on language and cognitive development in children particularly deaf children and children with Down syndrome. Clibbens has published extensively and is a member of the Council of Deans of Health, the British Psychological Society, the Royal Society of Medicine, the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication.
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Early life
Clibbens was born in 1953 and educated at Bedford Modern School and Birkbeck, University of London (BSc Psychology (1980), PhD Psychology (1990)).
Career
Clibbens has held numerous academic and managerial positions in universities including Head of School, Associate Dean and Dean roles in Psychology, Social Sciences and Health at the University of Plymouth and the University of Essex, before assuming his current position as Head of Social Sciences at Birmingham City University. Clibbens has also served on a wide range of regional, national and international bodies and ‘has supervised a substantial number of PhD students to completion’.
Clibbens is Chairman of the Undergraduate Education Committee and Deputy Chairman of the Research Board at the British Psychological Society. He is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the charity Down Syndrome Education International and Chairman of its Research Ethics Committee. Clibbens served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the ESRC Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre at University College London for its first five-year term.