Dr Jones Chesters studied undergraduate psychology at Balliol College Oxford and gained his PhD in experimental psychopathology from Caius College Cambridge. He trained on the clinical psychology doctorate at UCL while working as a MRC research fellow at the Institute of Child Health. He completed the graduate diploma in clinical neuropsychology at Kings College (Institute of Psychiatry) while a practising clinical neuropsychologist in the NHS. He specialises in diagnostic assessment of adult-onset neurodegenerative disorders.

Academic Director, Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.

Clinical neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation.

• Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Dr Jones Chesters’ research interests are in early-onset/atypical dementia (pathology, classification and social context), cross-cultural aspects of neuropsychological assessment, and disorders of social language, pragmatics and cognition.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Curry, O., & Jones Chesters, M. (2012). Putting ourselves in the other fellow’s shoes: the role of ‘Theory of Mind’ in solving coordination problems. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 12(1–2), 147–159. doi:10.1163/156853712X633974
2. Emanuelli, F., Waller, G., Jones Chesters, M., & Ostuzzi, R. (2012). Recovery from disordered eating: sufferers’ and clinicians’ perspectives. European Eating Disorders Review. Advance online publication. doi:10.1002/erv.2159
3. Curry, O., Chesters, M. J., & Viding, E. (2011). The psychopath’s dilemma: the effects of psychopathic personality traits in one-shot games. Personality and Individual Differences, 50(6), 804–809. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.12.036

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Jones Chesters, M.H. (2007). Models: a pragmatic perspective. Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 7, 247–257.
2. Jones Chesters, M.H., & Davidson, S. (2007). How to encourage collaboration. In View: the Journal from the NHS Institute for Senior Leaders, 12, 28–29.

Non-peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Jones Chesters, M.H. (2007). Cross-cultural and cross-linguistic neuropsychology. Division of Neuropsychology Newsletter, 6, 6–8.

Conference Papers

1. Jones Chesters, M.H., Watson, R., & Petrak, J. (2006). Cognitive assessment in the HIV inpatient setting: experience using the RBANS [Abstract no. CDB0917]. Paper presented at the 16th International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Book Chapters

1. Jones Chesters, M.H. (2001). Psychological Interventions. In Z. Walker & R. Butler (Eds.), The memory clinic guide. London: Martin Dunitz.