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I joined the University of Gloucestershire as a student in 2007 where I completed my BSc (Hons) in Sport and Exercise Science, my MSc in Applied Sport and Exercise Science and my GDip in Psychology.
Alongside my studies I trained as an Applied Sport and Exercise Scientist, providing psychological support to athletes, worked as a Teaching Assistant, supporting children with Special Educational Needs, in a secondary school in Swindon and worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Gloucestershire in which I collaborated on numerous health related research projects with external institutions.
I am now nearing completion of my PhD exploring sense of self and wellbeing in people living with and beyond anorexia nervosa. I started as a Lecturer in Psychological Sciences at the University of Gloucestershire in 2021 where I continue to teach across a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate modules and engage in research practice.
I teach across a range of modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level inclusive of developmental, educational, occupational and clinical psychology, eco, critical and social psychology, health and wellbeing and research methods. I also supervise both undergraduate and postgraduate students with their dissertation projects and theses.
My research is primarily located within the field of mental health and wellbeing. I am particularly interested in exploring the experiences of vulnerable population groups (such as people living with mental health conditions, cancer, dementia or learning disabilities, people with experience of bereavement, stroke or brain injury, and the elderly) and the developmental processes of their sense of self (i.e., who a person perceives themselves to be) over time. This is reflected in my ongoing PhD which is entitled sense of self and wellbeing for people living with, and beyond, anorexia nervosa.
Beyond this, I am interested in social prescribing (referral to social activities such as art, exercise, or mindful photography as an alternative to medication or traditional therapies) and health promotion more broadly in which I have been involved in collaboratively reviewing a number of health and wellbeing initiatives (for example, Beat the Street https://www.beatthestreet.me, Artlift https://artlift.org and Look Again Mindful Photography https://www.look-again.org).
Investigating emotions is a further key interest of mine; recently colleagues and I have been conducting research into emotional labour and strategies to manage this.
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