Current and past projects investigating compassion, psychosis, and therapeutic innovation
PhD thesis (2019)
‘Social influences on dissociative processes in psychosis’
(IoPPN, King’s College London)

DClinPsy thesis (2010)
‘Exploring the foundations of a ‘radical normalisation’ approach to psychosis’
(University of Oxford)

MA thesis (2006)
‘Mysticism & madness: Different aspects of the same human experience?’
(Heythrop College, University of London)


Research awards and grants
- 2017 – DfE Innovation Programme: SafeCORE (£1.95million)
- 2014 – Compassion for Voices: A tale of courage and hope (£7,500)
- 2014 – MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship (£219,357)
- 2012 – Intervoice Research Award
Cross-sector collaborative research






HEALTHCARE SECTOR
1-to-1 therapy & groups (inpatient & community)
Healthcare staff wellbeing, leadership & team culture
SOCIAL CARE SECTOR
Family interventions where there are children at risk of trauma
Care homes for vulnerable children
Social care staff wellbeing, leadership & team culture
EDUCATION SECTOR
Coaching in schools where there are vulnerable (‘excluded’) children
Teaching staff wellbeing, leadership & school culture
CHARITY SECTOR
Housing and support for vulnerable young people
Charity staff wellbeing, leadership & team culture
Current / ongoing research activities
- Stanford University – collaborator on new intervention development and co-applicant on 2 research grant applications (adult psychosis)
- Royal Borough of Greenwich – co-investigator on 3 intervention evaluation studies (children’s social care)
- ChUSE Trail – steering group committee member (young voice-hearers)
- NHS Lothian acute inpatient services – collaborator on group evaluation research study (adult psychosis)
- ECHO study, Denmark – research supervisor on new treatment evaluation study (young voice-hearers)

Some of my old research conference posters




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