Reaching for Fulfilment as a Woman in Science

Barbara A. Wilson has worked in brain injury rehabilitation for over 42 years. She founded the Oliver Zangwill Centre and the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. She has won many awards including an OBE for services to rehabilitation. She is a Fellow of The British Psychological Society, The Academy of Medical Sciences and The Academy of Social Sciences, and honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong, the University of Sydney and the University of East Anglia.

• Chapter One: Further Childhood MemoriesChapter Two: Early Years of MarriageChapter Three: Women in ScienceChapter Four: My First Job as a Qualified Clinical PsychologistChapter Five: Work Trips to Australia, Japan, Brazil and India Chapter Six: Jordan, my last trip with Sarah Chapter Seven: Present Time: Brexit and the Coronavirus; and a look back to early marriage when we lived in Suffolk and Essex and neuropsychology was not even thought ofChapter Eight: My first day at Rivermead Rehabilitation CentreChapter Nine: The disaster in the USA – 9/11 and memories of earlier times when we visited New YorkChapter Ten: Links with ChileChapter Eleven: Travels in Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Mali and NamibiaChapter Twelve: More on work trips to Greece, Italy and SpainChapter Thirteen: Other work trips to Cuba, New Zealand, Argentina and South AfricaChapter Fourteen: Learning from PatientsChapter Fifteen: Brexit and Irish citizenshipChapter Sixteen Coping with bereavement twenty years onChapter Seventeen: Life today, Lock down, walks round Bury St Edmunds; Black lives matterChapter Eighteen: Current work and interestsChapter Nineteen: The Neuropsychological Consequences of Covid-19Chapter Twenty: Final thoughts