Peter K. Smith

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Professor Peter K Smith is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His research interest is children’s social development. Smith was Head of the Unit for School and Family Studies in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths from 1998 to 2011. He received his B.Sc at the University of Oxford and his Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield; following his doctorate he continued at the University of Sheffield, obtaining a Personal Chair in 1991, before moving to Goldsmiths College in 1995. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Association of Psychological Sciences, and the Academy of Social Sciences.