Biography

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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Factual Management