My Curriculum Vitae

Dates

Institution

Job title and or grade

Programme

e.g. A level, BSc Psychology

1970-1974

Secondary modern/comprehensive school

Basic grade teacher and Scale 2

Head of Pastoral Care and co-ordinator for children with learning difficulties  

GCSE/CSE Psychology

Child development psychology

Educational psychology

Cognitive-behavioural psychology

Working with teachers to help them plan programmes for students with learning difficulties and behaviour problems

Psychology of Pastoral care—cognitive-emotional-intelligence

1974-1980

Residential Therapeutic Community School: Faversham School for children with behaviour problems: funded by Newcastle Education Authority and MIND (Mental Health Charity) attachment/deprivation/privation problems and mental health problems as well as learning difficulties/autism

Special education teacher level/grade 3 +special school allowance.

Co-ordinator for negotiating return of children to secondary school: working with teachers in the host school to plan behaviour programmes and interventions: monitoring progress with host school

Educational psychology

Cognitive-Behavioural Psychology

Development of behaviour programmes

Psychology of Teaching and Learning

Developmental Psychology Attachment/deprivation/privation

Psycho-therapeutic psychology: for teachers, social care and social workers

Children were separated from parents, in care, excluded from school: the school was   home, a place of care and respite as well as educational.

Psycho-therapeutic psychology

We were trained in cognitive –behavioural and psychoanalytical therapy in house and on short courses: but not certificated

Won a fellowship to work with behaviour specialists in Omaha, Nebraska at advisor level (funded by MIND): trained teachers on return in behaviour assessment, intervention development and evaluation

1980-

University of London; Advanced Diploma in Education: I had a place on this course funded by the Therapeutic Community School and MIND.

On receipt of my advanced diploma I was graduate level—this course was recognised as the conversion from Cert Ed to degree level: equivalence: 2.2.

I had had a place at Newcastle University to study Psycho-therapy but my husband’s company transferred him to Swindon—and so MIND agreed to fund the course in London as there were no psychotherapy training courses within travelling distance and I had a 5 year old child: I have been continually appreciative of them honouring my training even though I could not return to the school.

Full time adult student on sabbatical with full pay from MIND and therapeutic community

Social and Behavioural Psychology.

Cognitive psychology related to education, health and mental health.

Person-centred psychology

Psychology of personality

Educational psychology

Developmental psychology

Personal construct theory

1981-1986

Swindon College Further Education

Lecturer in Health and  Child Development

I completed a Masters Degree in Health Education at the University of Southampton: part-time in my own time and self funding: (3years)

GCSE Child development

Developmental psychology

City and Guilds Child Development: Psychology for Nursery Nurse courses

Occupational health psychology for beauticians, hairdressers, catering students

Psychology of communication for a range of part- time courses for health and social care/ social workers

Educational psychology

Learning co-ordinator for students with learning/

behaviour problems

Developmental Psychology: educational psychology

Attachment, deprivation, privation. for

social services in house training for social workers: psychology of learning, play

communication, behaviour interventions, attachment.

Developmental  Psychology

Childhood, adolescence, middle life, old age, loss, grief, bereavement and adoption

1986-1989

Salisbury College Further Education:

Senior Lecturer Psychology, Teacher Training and Health Education

(Health Education Authority Teaching and Policy Certificate) and

FE Teacher Training (City and Guilds 730 Cert):

Deputy Head of the Faculty of Education

GCSE Psychology

A level Psychology

City and Guilds Psychology for

pre-nursing courses

730 Teacher Training Certificate: Educational Psychology: teaching and learning: behaviour, cognitive, biological psychology/

social psychology

Health Psychology

Health Education Authority Certificate: I wrote the submission for this certificate and planned and developed the course. It included cognitive, behavioural, biological/ social psychology: organisational psychology: counselling skills and group work skills

Loss and Bereavement

Mental Health

Attachment

Policy development and intervention planning: Psychology of teaching and learning (ed psychology) in health settings.

Psychology of social care (gave students the equivalent of City and Guilds 730 Teaching Cert to enable them to teach in health settings/occupational health/environmental health, nursing. health visiting etc

I planned, implemented and taught short courses for health and social services: Psychology of mental health, caring for the elderly, loss and bereavement/

Trauma

5 days per week plus evening classes

1989-1992

Health Education Authority: now Health Development Agency

Executive Officer for the Cancer Prevention Programme funded by the Cancer Research Campaign and the DH.

(Equivalent to being a national training and teaching lead)

Lead for national health promotion officers/ community officers in the psychology of behavioural interventions /social and care interventions/

Evaluation

Health Psychology: behavioural intervention, implementation and evaluation in health promotion and interventions (with The USA Centres of Disease Control) and the Europe Against Cancer Programme

Organisation and Management

Psychology: for inter-agency working and communication

Psychology of prevention

(no smoking, alcohol etc)—see publications list, especially evidence-based reviews—which are Cognitive/behaviour psychology led

Psychology of screening programmes (cognitive-behavioural-affective)

Answering MPs questions

Link office for the European Cancer Prevention Programme (see publications list)

Physiological Psychology: of illness, treatment, and tertiary care of cancer: Psychology of palliative care (we had an interagency partnership with all cancer charities in UK and Ireland as well as in EU, many of them with a remit for care).

40 hours per week+ including evening and weekend work, foreign travel to EU and around UK

Int Confs

1992-1998

University of Southampton who hosted the EU Cancer Prevention Programme

I completed my PhD as staff during my tenure at Southampton University: I had funding from the Europe Against Cancer Programme for research in evaluation of cancer prevention programmes

Lecturer in Health Education and Promotion: Management training

UK representative for the Europe against Cancer Programme: International post working with Cancer organisations/policy and evaluation throughout Europe and UK

Lecturer for short courses in education, teaching and learning: management, stress management, implementing behaviour interventions for health

MA (Ed) Health Education and Promotion

MSc Health Education and Promotion

Psychology Research Methods and for interventions/evaluation

Health Psychology   Education/ Social Psychology

Cognitive-Behavioural

Psychology: Psychology of personality

Psychology of communication

Advanced Certificates in Loss and Bereavement

and Cancer Education (I developed, taught and evaluated these courses and was an examiner for MA/MSc/Certificates x 2

Health and educational psychology: Cognitive-behavioural psychology-occupational psychology—training policy makers and implementers of behavioural interventions,

Social psychology: understanding populations, researching populations: attitudes, beliefs, behaviour, communication and behavioural psychology, cognitive and emotive psychology

Management Psychology

Psychology Group Behaviour

for management training: using multi-modular approaches,

Counselling Psychology and psychotherapeutic approaches related to health and education

Psychology of stress: Stress management psychology

40 hours per week to include meetings, speaker at conferences

EU meetings/international meetings

1998—retirement

University of London Social Science Faculty: EPI-Centre for Evidence based Health and Education

Director of the EPI-Centre

Faculty of Social Science

Grade 5 Research Unit

Funded by the DH and DOE and partner in International Cochrane Collaboration: working with Oxford and Nottingham Universities (and I am still working and publishing with this collaboration)

Psychology of behaviour/cognition- motivation, relapse theory/theories of motivation.

Psychology communication/teaching and learning in relation to medical interventions such as screening programmes/ prevention

Policy and Management Psychology.

Behavioural Psychology interventions, social care interventions/educational interventions

Evaluation of interventions; eg. Sure Start Programme

Developmental Psychology of attachment/play. Nurture etc to enhance early years experience and learning.

Cognitive-Behavioural-emotive psychology : evidence-based medicine and health promotion and interventions

Organisational Psychology: working with multi-partners and international partners: training others here and in EU in intervention development

Occupational psychology: appraisal and performance: stress and mental health

40+ conf, meetings, international work

2001-ongoing-retirement part time post

South Wilts Grammar School: Salisbury

Head of Psychology (A Level)

Teaching AS level and GCE A level Psychology and Training teachers to teach psychology.

I set up the department: and it has grown from 35 -170 students and 3 staff in 6 years. I trained both members of staff. Results 25% above national average

AS and A (GCE) level syllabus AQA Specification A

Educational psychology: teaching and learning

Psychology of Cognitive-emotional-intelligence (Pastoral Care/academic monitoring and coaching)

Educational Psychology

As part of in house professional development programme—training teachers

Health Psychology: general studies: Health behaviour

3 days per week

Victim Support

Wiltshire

Voluntary Work

Three Public Appointments 2001-2009

1990-1998

2000-2009

2001-2004

Trainer

(Voluntary)

Executive Board: member

and then Chairperson of the Organisation

Lord Chancellor’s Committee for the Appointment of Magistrates South Wiltshire

Lord Chancellor’s Committee for the Appointment of Magistrates in Wiltshire

SE Wiltshire Primary Care Trust Board

Trained staff and volunteers in counselling support skills and theoretical understanding of victim, issues, theory,

loss and bereavement

.

I completed the police training in trauma and violence, rape and cot death before setting up the rape, murder support service.

Criminal Psychology

Psychology of violence: crime and violent crime including rape and murder

Domestic violence

Forensic psychology

Understanding the evidence

Psychology of reparation, restorative justice, punishment

Psychology of recovery: Narrative therapy: therapeutic story telling

Therapeutic psychology

Basic counselling skills

Skills for supporting victims in court

Skills for interviewing victims

Psychology of emotion

Psychology of anxiety, fear, loss, bereavement, recovery

Criminal psychology—understanding the perpetrator

Psychology of Trauma

Short term and long term trauma

2 days per week + evening and weekends