Faith Spicer OBE (MB, BS, JP): Formerly Director, London Youth Advisory Centre (later the Brandon Centre)

Faith Spicer OBE (MB, BS, JP)

Dr Faith Spicer, who recently died at the age of 95, was a truly resolute pioneer in the fields of family planning, sexual counselling and the psychiatry of adolescence. She was acutely aware of the shame and moral outrage that in her time was associated with premarital sexual intercourse and its often appalling consequences, not least dangerous, back-street abortions. At that time, women stude...

Centre Winnipeg , MB , Canada

Centre for the Study of Expertise, Director

The study of extraordinary performance has been carried out almost independently in two research traditions, the first emphasising practice and the second emphasising talent. The practice tradition has collected empirical evidence strongly supporting chunking as a key learning mechanism and practice as a prerequisite for becoming an expert. The talent tradition has provided convincing data for ...

London, UK: The Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy

ration with philanthropic charities. There have been close links between the charity and the hospital ever since. In 1894, the society purchased a farm in Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, establishing the Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy. The name of the society was changed to the National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) in 1907. The NSE has provided residential care and public education from that t...

From the Director of the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging