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Associate Professor of Psychology

 

Professional memberships

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Teaching) 

Roles on external bodies

Member of the Vitae Mental Health and Wellbeing Working Group

Teaching interests

I enjoy teaching in:

  • Clinical and applied psychology, including mental health and wellbeing, formulation, and intervention
  • History and philosophy of psychology
  • Critical and transpersonal psychology, particularly in relation to clinical psychology

Additional information

Research interests:
My research interests are in clinical, critical, and transpersonal psychology. 

My PhD research explored the conceptual and theoretical understanding of social anxiety with regards to its overlap with paranoia. I am also interested in the role of negative, intrusive mental imagery in mental health and its potential as a target for intervention, as well as critical and transpersonal psychologies and their overlap with clinical psychology.

My grant-funded projects have been on the topic of student mental health. Following my PhD, I developed an award-winning intervention for postgraduate research student wellbeing. More recently, I have led and been part of several projects seeking to better understand, and reduce, student loneliness. 

I am also involved in projects seeking to understand experiences of menstruation within higher education. 

I like to take a mixed-methods approach to research, employing both qualitative and quantitative methods to collect and analyse data. Methods I use include interviews, surveys, experiments, and psychometric scale construction and validation.

Grants awarded:

Office for Students / Research England CATALYST funding: £139,000 - March 2018. Peer Support for Postgraduate Research Student Wellbeing.

UKRI / SMaRteN Student Mental Health Research Network: £10,000 - May 2020. Social Connectedness and Wellbeing in Students. 

PIHR Arts & Health Collaboration fund: £2,000 - November 2021. Public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic.

University of Plymouth, Faculty of Health Strategic Investment Fund: £7,307 - March 2022. Understanding menstruation in academia. 
 
MRC / AHRC / ESRC ADOLESCENCE, MENTAL HEALTH AND THE DEVELOPING MIND: Methodological Innovation projects: £1,050,000 - November 2022. The time of their lives? Developing concepts and methods to understand loneliness in students.

Academic qualifications

04 Psychology, Doctorate, Social anxiety and paranoia: A mixed-methods investigation, University of Plymouth

1 Sept 20151 Nov 2018

Award Date: 23 Sept 2019

22 Education and teaching, Other postgraduate qualification (e.g. PGCE, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma), Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Distinction), University of Plymouth

1 Jan 20161 Jan 2017

Award Date: 1 Sept 2017

04 Psychology, Other higher degree (e.g. Masters degree), MPsych Advanced Psychology: Foundations of Clinical Psychology (First Class), University of Plymouth

1 Sept 20111 Jul 2015

Award Date: 15 Sept 2015

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