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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2003 - Joseph Zubin Award, Society for Research in Psychopathology
  • 2001 - Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, National Academy of Medicine
  • 1995 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1988 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1988 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1987 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1986 - Rema Lapouse Award, American Public Health Association

Overview

Michael Rutter was affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and contributed significantly to multiple fields including psychology, social sciences, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily focused on clinical psychology, education, and genetics, with particular attention to pediatrics, perinatology, and child health as well as safety research.

Their work covered a range of topics including child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, birth, development, and health, and early childhood education and development. Other notable topics in their research were child welfare and adoption, stress responses and cortisol, autism spectrum disorder research, and genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Michael Rutter collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Dennis Golm, Robert Kumsta, Mark Kennedy, and Jana Kreppner.

Publications appeared in prominent venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Oxford Review of Education

Some recent papers included:

  • Early childhood deprivation is associated with alterations in adult brain structure despite subsequent environmental enrichment, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Genetic Advances in Autism, 2020, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Why does early childhood deprivation increase the risk for depression and anxiety in adulthood? A developmental cascade model, 2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • The impact of childhood deprivation on adult neuropsychological functioning is associated with ADHD symptom persistence, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • The Isle of Wight studies: the scope and scale of reading difficulties, 2020, Oxford Review of Education

Throughout their career, Michael Rutter received several awards, including the Joseph Zubin Award from the Society for Research in Psychopathology in 2003, the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health from the National Academy of Medicine in 2001, and the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 1995.

They were also recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1989, a Member of the National Academy of Medicine and Academia Europaea since 1988, a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom since 1987, and received the Rema Lapouse Award from the American Public Health Association in 1986.

Best Publications

  • The autism diagnostic observation schedule-generic: a standard measure of social and communication deficits associated with the spectrum of autism.

    Catherine Lord;Susan Risi;Linda Lambrecht;Edwin H. Cook

  • Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms.

    Michael Rutter

  • Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised: a revised version of a diagnostic interview for caregivers of individuals with possible pervasive developmental disorders

    Catherine Lord;Michael Rutter;Ann Le Couteur

  • Fifteen Thousand Hours : Secondary Schools and Their Effects on Children

    Michael Rutter

  • Resilience in the face of adversity. Protective factors and resistance to psychiatric disorder.

    Michael Rutter

  • Education, health, and behaviour

    Michael etc. Rutter

  • Protective factors in children's responses to stress and disadvantage.

    M Rutter

  • Autism as a strongly genetic disorder: evidence from a British twin study.

    A. Bailey;A. Le Couteur;I. Gottesman;P. Bolton

  • Validity of adult retrospective reports of adverse childhood experiences: review of the evidence.

    Jochen Hardt;Michael Rutter

  • The Social Communication Questionnaire Manual

    M Rutter;A. Bailey;C. Lord;A. O. Bailey

  • Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour: Conduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study

    Terrie E. Moffitt;Avshalom Caspi;Michael Rutter;Phil A. Silva

  • Autism diagnostic observation schedule: a standardized observation of communicative and social behavior.

    Catherine Lord;Michael L. Rutter;Susan Goode;Jacquelyn Heemsbergen;Jacquelyn Heemsbergen

  • Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule

    Catherine Lord;Michael Rutter;Susan Goode;Jacquelyn Heemsbergen

  • Implications of resilience concepts for scientific understanding.

    Michael Rutter

  • The Domain of Developmental Psychopathology.

    L. Alan Sroufe;Michael Rutter

  • Resilience: some conceptual considerations.

    Michael Rutter

  • Adult outcome for children with autism

    Patricia Howlin;Susan Goode;Jane Hutton;Michael Rutter

  • Maternal Deprivation Reassessed

    Michael Rutter

  • Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Alistair T. Pagnamenta;Lambertus Klei;Richard Anney

  • A children's behaviour questionnaire for completion by teachers: preliminary findings.

    Michael Rutter

Frequent Co-Authors

Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke King's College London
Andrew Pickles
Andrew Pickles King's College London
Jana Kreppner
Jana Kreppner University of Southampton
Patrick Bolton
Patrick Bolton King's College London
Barbara Maughan
Barbara Maughan King's College London
Emily Simonoff
Emily Simonoff King's College London
Catherine Lord
Catherine Lord University of California, Los Angeles
Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University
Anthony J. Bailey
Anthony J. Bailey University of British Columbia
Thomas G. O'Connor
Thomas G. O'Connor University of Rochester

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