I completed my PhD in Cognitive/Experimental Psychology, working on the validation of a tool for recording peoples’ perception of emotion from voices and faces, at Queen’s University of Belfast in Northern Ireland. As a postgraduate student I participated in a European TMR (training and mobility of researchers) project. I was also trained in person-centred counselling and have completed a BPS accredited training in Clinical Supervision. I have worked as the Academic Director of Postgraduate Courses in Counselling and Director of Clinical Placements for several years within the International Faculty of Sheffield University. My research activities focus on emotion, counselling and personal development in higher education. I also supervise postgraduate research focusing on the experience of counselling for trainees and clients and I am involved in projects focusing on the fear of stigma in seeking psychological help and the relationship between emotional intelligence and social interactions and the use of reflective practice in university students.
