Dr Christopher Badcock

Dr Christopher Robert Badcock is Emeritus Reader in Sociology at the LSE, having retired in 2011. Born in 1946, he was educated at Maidstone Grammar School and LSE (First Class Honours BSc Sociology and Social Anthropology, 1967, PhD, 1973.). He was Lecturer in Sociology at Polytechnic of the South Bank from 1969-73, and was appointed to the staff of LSE Department of Sociology in 1974.

He continues with his research, which is devoted to elaborating the imprinted brain theory which he developed along with Prof Bernard Crespi (Killam Research Professor, Department of Biosciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada) and which seeks to explain brain evolution, the mind, and mental illness in terms of genetic conflict. His book on the subject, The Imprinted Brain: how genes set the balance between autism and psychosis was published by Jessica Kingsley in May 2009. He also maintains the Imprinted Brain blogsite at Psychology Today online, and can be found on ResearchGate.