Associate Professor of Psychology

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Teaching) 

Member of the Vitae Mental Health and Wellbeing Working Group

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

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.