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Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and the Natural Sciences at Cambridge University,
Fraser N. Watts is a clinical psychologist whose research is concerned with the interface between psychology and theology and with the psychology of religion. He did his undergraduate work at Magdalen College, Oxford, in psychology and philosophy before continuing studies in clinical psychology at the University of London Institute of Psychiatry where he took a Ph.D. in 1975. Dr. Watts served as a lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry for the next five years and was named head of the clinical psychology department at King’s College Hospital, London, in 1975. He moved on to Cambridge in 1981 to work as a senior scientist at the Medical Research Council’s Applied Psychology Unit. In 1990, he earned a diploma in theology at Cambridge and was ordained a priest in the Church of England. He was named director of studies in theology at Queens’ College, Cambridge in 1994. Dr. Watts is a fellow and a past president of the British Psychological Society. He serves as a trustee of the Epiphany of Philosophers and as vice-chaplain of St. Edward’s Church, Cambridge. Founding editor of Cognition and Emotion, he is the author of more than one hundred journal articles and chapters in published volumes. He is co-editor (with Glenys Parry) of Skills and Methods in Mental Health Research (1989) and (with A. D. Baddeley and B. A. Wilson) of Handbook of Memory Disorder (1995) and editor of New Developments in Clinical Psychology (1985 and 1988), Neuropsychological Perspectives on Emotion (1993), Science Meets Faith (1998), Christians and Bioethics (2000), and Perspectives on Prayer (2001). He is co-author (with D. H. Bennett) of Theory and Practice of Psychiatric Rehabilitation (1981 and 1991), (with J. M. G. Williams, C. M. MacLeod, and Andrew Matthews) of Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders (1988 and 1997), (with Mark Williams) of The Psychology of Religious Knowing (1988 and 1994), and (with Rebecca Nye and Sara Savage) of Psychology for Christian Ministry. Dr. Watts also is the author of Theology and Psychology, which was published in 2002 by Ashgate.
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