Willem Kuyken
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Willem Kuyken is a British/Dutch researcher, teacher and author. He is the Ritblat Professor of Mindfulness and Psychological Science at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and Director of the University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre[1].
Kuyken’s work focuses on depression, its prevention and treatment and how mindfulness and mindfulness-based programs can prevent depression.
Life and work
Kuyken was born in Neath, Wales, the youngest of three children, to Dutch parents. His father was raised in Indonesia where, during World War II, he was interned in a Japanese concentration camp. Kuyken’s uncle died in the camp aged 4. His mother was raised in Venlo in the South of Holland, where she lived under Nazi occupation. He spent his childhood in Africa, where his father was working as an engineer.
Kuyken was educated at Winchester College, University College London and the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, before training as a clinical psychologist at the Salomons Clinical Psychology Training Centre.
Career
Before taking up his post in Oxford in 2014 he was Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Exeter. He headed the research group (2001-2010), co-founded (with Ed Watkins and Eugene Mullan) the Wellcome Mood Disorders Centre (2004) and (with Alison Evans) the Masters in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapies (2008). He also directed the clinical psychology training programme (2001-2004).
He worked in two Postdoctoral Fellowships: a research fellowship at the World Health Organization project managing the development of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment (WHOQOL; 1992-1994) and a clinical research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania/Beck Institute working with Aaron T. Beck (1998-1999).
He was the recipient of the British Psychological Society May Davidson award in 2006. He was a faculty member of the 2014 Mind and Life Summer Research Science Institute and a grandfathered Diplomate and Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. The Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science named Kuyken one of their most cited researchers in 2019 and 2020.
At the University of Oxford[2] Kuyken co-led (with Mark Williams, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Tim Dalgleish) a programme of research on mindfulness in education – the MYRIAD project (2014-2022) and directed the University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre.
Kuyken’s work includes over 100 peer-reviewed publications, three books and extensive public engagement work. His work has been featured on CBS, Maccleans, New Statesman, Le Monde, der Zeit, the Telegraph, the Guardian and the BBC and in documentaries such as My Year of Living Mindfully and Trust Me I'm a Doctor.
Personal Life
Kuyken has two daughters and was married for 30 years to Halley Cohen, a writer and communications specialist.
Kuyken now lives in Oxford. He has practised mindfulness meditation since his early twenties and regularly teaches mindfulness classes.
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