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YULE, Professor William (b 1940)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA IOP/PP7

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: YULE, Professor William (b 1940)

Date(s): 1964-2002

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 88 boxes

Name of creator(s): Yule | William | b 1940 | Professor of Applied Child Psychology

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, Scotland, 1940; BSc, Psychology, University of Aberdeen, 1962; diploma in clinical psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, 1963; Scientific Officer Medical Research Council, 1963-1964; Research Officer, Department of Child Development, University of London Institute of Education working on educational and medical survey of schoolchildren, Isle of Wight, under Professor Jack Tizard, 1965-1968; Lecturer in Child Development, Institute of Education, 1968-1969; Lecturer in Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, 1968-1969; appointed Honorary Principal Psychologist, Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital, 1973; Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, 1973-1980; also Senior Lecturer in Child Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, 1974-1980; appointed Honorary Top Grade Psychologist, Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital, 1979; Reader in Applied Child Psychology, 1980-1987; Professor of Applied Child Psychology, 1987-2005; Co-Director, School for Life project, Kiev, Ukraine, 1993-2002; Lead Clinician, National and Specialist division, Children's Directorate of South London and Maudsley NHS Trust; 1999-2003; Honorary Consultant in Clinical Psychology to the Army, 2000; Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2008-.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Professor William Yule mainly relating to child psychology, 1964-2002, including: questionnaires, test instructions, notes, progress reports, conference papers and articles, 1964-1969, relating to a longitudinal educational and medical survey of schoolchildren on the Isle of Wight (selected as a relatively static but socially and economically cross-representative population: this was the first epidemiological survey of this size to cover child health and the impact of health on educational achievement); questionnaire, articles and notes relating to 1982-1983 study on the effect of lead on children's development, and assessments of the tests used; reports and correspondence, 1987-1990, relating to survivors of the 1987 HERALD OF FREE ENTERPRISE cross-channel ferry disaster; reports, correspondence, questionnaires and articles, 1988-1996, relating to survivors of the 1988 sinking of the educational cruise ship JUPITER off the coast of Greece, including two studies, 1989-1992 and 1994-1996, of survivors and their experience of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which established the previously debated capacity of adolescents to suffer from PTSD; notes, questionnaires and articles, 1992-1993, relating to a World Health Organisation study, 'Brain development in utero', in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, concerning the prenatal development of children born shortly after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident; reports, 1993-2002, relating to the charitably-funded School for Life, assisting children with severe learning difficulties, Kiev, Ukraine; reports, correspondence and notes, 1995-1996, concerning the joint United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Institute of Psychiatry project to provide psychosocial support to war-affected children, Bosnia.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The papers are grouped by research topic and the groups are in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Some files are open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form. Files relating to the medical records of named individuals, and files enabling the identification of participants in medical surveys are closed, to be reviewed 100 years from the date of the most recent document in the file. A small number of administrative files are closed for 30 years. Access may be granted to researchers in certain circumstances, and upon signature of a special undertaking, providing such research is for purely statistical purposes and published data is anonymised such as to prevent the identification of individuals.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archives and Information Management.

Finding aids:

This collection level description and a detailed catalogue available online and in hard copy in the College Archives reading room.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were placed in King's College London Archives by Professor Yule in 2007 and 2008.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

The papers of Chief Inspector Matthew Sawers, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, include briefing notes, correspondence, and reports, 1994-1996, relating to his service as Deputy Chief of Operations, Western European Union (WEU) Police Contingent, Mostar, Bosnia, Feb-Aug 1996.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Kate O'Brien. Sources: Biographical information from Professor Yule. Also 'Festschrift for William Yule', Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2005 33, 385-387.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Child psychiatry | Psychiatry
Child psychology | Educational psychology | Educational sciences
Field work | Research work
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder | Neuroses | Mental diseases | Psychopathology | Psychiatry
Disasters

Personal names
Yule | William | b 1940 | Professor of Applied Child Psychology

Corporate names
Herald of Free Enterprise
Jupiter | cruise ship

Places
Chernobyl | Ukraine | Eastern Europe
Isle of Wight | Hampshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe