Tanya Byron
- Writer
- Actress
Professor Tanya Byron is a consultant clinical
psychologist specialising in child and adolescent mental
health.
Tanya broadcasts on TV and radio. Her credits include
Child of Our Time, Lose Weight for Love, The Truth
About Child Sex Abuse, What's The Right Diet For
You?, Little Angels, House of Tiny Tearaways, All in
the Mind, Bedtime Live and Newsnight. She has a
weekly column in The Times and a monthly column in
Good Housekeeping.
Tanya is the author of The Skeleton Cupboard (Pan
Macmillan 2015), her account of her years training as a
clinical psychologist. Tanya's other writing credits include;
Your Child Your Way (Penguin, 2007) and Your
Toddler Month by Month (Dorling Kindersley, 2008).
In addition, Tanya co-wrote comedy The Life and Times
of Vivienne Vyle with Jennifer Saunders on BBC Two.
Tanya is the patron of the charity Prospex and chancellor
of Edge Hill University. She is also a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Arts and a trustee of the Family and Parenting
Institute. She is also a Trustee of the NSPCC.
In 2008 Tanya was made Professor in the Public
Understanding of Science. She has been awarded
honorary doctorates at York University and the Open
University. She is also Honorary Professor of
Psychology at Shandong Normal University, China.
Tanya is an independent national and international
government advisor on children, young people and the
digital media - in 2008 she published The Byron Review:
Safer Children in a Digital World and it's follow up review
Do We have Safer Children in a Digital World (2010) and
sat on Lord Carter's Digital Britain advisory board (2009).
She is an experienced public speaker and regularly
gives talks on psychology, education and childcare.
psychologist specialising in child and adolescent mental
health.
Tanya broadcasts on TV and radio. Her credits include
Child of Our Time, Lose Weight for Love, The Truth
About Child Sex Abuse, What's The Right Diet For
You?, Little Angels, House of Tiny Tearaways, All in
the Mind, Bedtime Live and Newsnight. She has a
weekly column in The Times and a monthly column in
Good Housekeeping.
Tanya is the author of The Skeleton Cupboard (Pan
Macmillan 2015), her account of her years training as a
clinical psychologist. Tanya's other writing credits include;
Your Child Your Way (Penguin, 2007) and Your
Toddler Month by Month (Dorling Kindersley, 2008).
In addition, Tanya co-wrote comedy The Life and Times
of Vivienne Vyle with Jennifer Saunders on BBC Two.
Tanya is the patron of the charity Prospex and chancellor
of Edge Hill University. She is also a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Arts and a trustee of the Family and Parenting
Institute. She is also a Trustee of the NSPCC.
In 2008 Tanya was made Professor in the Public
Understanding of Science. She has been awarded
honorary doctorates at York University and the Open
University. She is also Honorary Professor of
Psychology at Shandong Normal University, China.
Tanya is an independent national and international
government advisor on children, young people and the
digital media - in 2008 she published The Byron Review:
Safer Children in a Digital World and it's follow up review
Do We have Safer Children in a Digital World (2010) and
sat on Lord Carter's Digital Britain advisory board (2009).
She is an experienced public speaker and regularly
gives talks on psychology, education and childcare.
