Vaughan Bell is a British clinical psychologist, currently at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust specialising in psychological interventions for psychotic outpatients and in training other professionals to deal with such patients.
[1][2] Bell did his PhD at Cardiff University, he chose the cognitive neuropsychiatry of psychosis as his research topic.
[4] In 2014 he and academic Tom Stafford received the British Psychological Society’s Public Engagement and Media Award.
[5] Bell has written articles on psychology and neuroscience for several newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian,[6] Discover,[7] Slate,[8] Wired UK,[9] The Independent[10] and The Atlantic.
[11] He was interviewed in 2005 by the influential journal Nature about his experience as a scientist editing Wikipedia, specifically in challenging a section on violence in the schizophrenia article.