Awards

Christian’s Master degree and PhD were funded through two full Medical Research Council scholarships. He won several awards during his academic studies, including the University of Manchester’s Annual Research Prize for Neuroscience in 2004, the British Oculomotor Group’s Student Poster prize in 2003 and the Driver prize for outstanding undergraduate performance in psychology at Royal Holloway.

Christian’s Rough Guide to Psychology was shortlisted for the 2011 British Psychological Society Book Award and for the 2012 Guild of Health Writers Best Health Book Award.

The BPS Research Digest blog that Christian created was a finalist in the psych/neuro category of the 2013 Science Seeker blogging Awards; in 2010 Christian was awarded the Best blog – psychology award in the international Research Blogging Awards, for his writing on the BPS Research Digest; and in Christian’s final year editing the Digest, he and his team were finalists in the Association of British Science Writers Awards in 2019.

Christian won Best Sports/Fitness feature for his article The Psychology of Stamina in the 2012 Guild of Health Writers Awards. He was also shortlisted for two Guild of Health Writers Awards that year, in the Best Trade or Specialist feature category and the Best Online feature category. In 2009 he was awarded the Guild of Health Writers Award for the Best Trade or Specialist magazine feature, for his Psychologist magazine article When Therapy Causes Harm.

In 2022, Christian’s book Be Who You Want, Unlocking the Science of Personality Change was awarded the annual book prize by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Christian is a chartered psychologist and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a full member of the Association of British Science Writers.