Who's Who

• DClinPsy course staff and their research interests
  
• Honorary members of staff
  
• DClinPsy course administrative staff
  
• Associate Clinical Tutors
  
• Other members of the department

DClinPsy Course Staff and Their Research Interests

Peter Fonagy, BSc, PhD, DipPsych, FBA
Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis; Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology; Joint Course Director
Research interests: Psychoanalytic theory; attachment research; empirical research on psychoanalytic constructs; the outcome of psychotherapy.

Tony Roth BSc, Dip Clin Psych, PhD
Professor of Clinical Psychology; Joint Course Director
Research interests: Evidence based practice as applied to the psychological therapies.

Kat Alcock BSc. (Hons), D.Clin.Psy
Clinical Tutor
Research interests: Race, culture and identity in young people; child and adolescent mental health; perinatal mental health and attachment; HIV and psychological well-being

Chris Barker BA, MA, MSc, PhD
Reader; Joint Research Director
Research interests: Interpersonal communication in clinical psychology (e.g., the process of psychological therapy, medical consultations and social support); community psychology (especially mutual support and informal helping); virtual reality applications in clinical psychology; clinical psychology research methods.

Chris Brewin BA, MSc, PhD, FBPsS
Professor of Clinical Psychology
Research interests: Cognitive factors in depression and post-traumatic stress disorder; memory, emotion and trauma; inhibitory processes in cognition; psychological treatment for trauma responses.

Stephen Butler BA, BSc, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Developmental psychopathology; antisocial behaviour in children and adolescents; adolescent sexual offending; child maltreatment.

Jason Crabtree BSc, MSc, PhD, DClinPsy
Clinical Tutor
Research interests: Autism spectrum conditions; learning disabilities; group identity, stigma and psychological well-being.

Val Curran BA, MA, PhD
Professor of Psychopharmacology
Research interests: Memory – emotional memory and emotional processing; drugs – drug treatment in psychiatry; substance use/abuse; interaction of drugs with mood and cognition.

Janet Feigenbaum BSc, MSc, DPhil, DipCBT
Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Adult survivors of childhood abuse; personality disorders; neurobiological mechanisms underlying the neurotic disorders; antisocial personality disorder and behaviour.

Miriam Fornells-Ambrojo PhD, DClinPsy
Research Interests: Interpersonal processes in paranoia. On-line factors associated with social anxiety. The role of affect regulation and executive functioning in social interactions. Virtual reality applications to clinical psychology. Factors associated with social recovery in early psychosis. Mechanisms of change in cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis. Positive psychology.

Jenny Jim BSc.(Hons), D.Clin.Psy, C.Psychol, Certificate in Family Therapy (AFT accredited)
Clinical Tutor
Research interests: Culture and therapy; systemic models; CAMHS work; iterative interactions of psychosocial experiences on neurodevelopment; factors underlying resilience in psychological development.  

Sunjeev Kamboj BSc, MSc, PhD, DClinPsy
Lecturer
Research interests: Psychopharmacology: The influence of centrally acting drugs (opioids, benzodiazepines and anti-cholinergic drugs) on emotional processing (especially of trauma-related stimuli) and cognition in clinical and non-clinical samples. False memory and psychopathology. Imagery in psychopathology and therapy.

John King BSc, PhD, CPsychol
Lecturer
Research interests: Neuropsychology of episodic and spatial memory and navigation; the hippocampus; rehabilitation of brain injury; early diagnosis of dementia; virtual reality as an assessment and rehabilitative tool; fMRI.

Deborah Lee BSc, MSc
Lecturer
Research interests: PTSD, shame and anger, role of schemas in manifestation and maintenance of PTSD.

William Mandy BA (Hons), DClinPsy
Lecturer
Research Interests: Autism Spectrum Disorders; development of social communication; insistence on sameness; autistic traits in non autistic populations.

Oliver Mason BSc, DPhil, DClinPsy
Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Early psychosis, high risk research, vulnerability factors in psychopathology, yoga and meditation-based approaches to mental health.

Susan Michie BA, MPhil, DPhil, CPsychol, FBPsS
Professor of Health Psychology
Research interests: Techniques and theories of health behaviour change; stress and occupational health; health professional behaviour and guideline implementation; organisational interventions; process and outcome measurement; illness representations.

Nancy Pistrang BA, MA, PhD
Reader; Joint Research Director
Research interests: Help-intended communication (e.g. in social support and psychological therapies); self-help groups; disclosure and health; empathy; parenting.

Neil Ralph BSc, MSc, DclinPsy, PgDip CBT
Clinical Tutor
Research interests: Outcome, process issues and using imagery in cognitive therapy; anxiety disorders; ostracism/social ranking and psychopathology.

Katrina Scior BSc, ClinPsyD
Academic Director and Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Learning disabilities; mental health problems in people with learning disabilities; adolescents with learning disabilities; identity issues.

Peter Scragg BSc, PsychD, DipClinHyp
Lecturer
Research interests: Mentally disordered offenders, personality assessment and cognitive therapy; forensic.

Lucy Serpell BA Hons, PhD, DClinPsy
Lecturer
Research interests: Adolescent and adult mental health: Eating Disorders, in particular cognition, motivation and personality in anorexia nervosa; childhood PTSD; OCD and obsessive compulsive personality disorder. The psychology of risk and decision-making

Kristina Soon BA, MPsych(Clin), CPsychol
Clinical Tutor and Admissions Tutor
Research interests: Paediatric psychology, psychological aspects of dermatological and life-limiting medical conditions in children, disfigurement, information-based intervention for children with chronic illness and their families.

Aimee Spector BSc, PhD, DClinPsy
Lecturer
Research interests: Psychological therapies and quality of life in dementia, evidence-based therapies with older people.

Joshua Stott BSc, DClinPsy
Clinical Tutor
Social constructionist ideas and systemic practices in working with older people; Mental health promotion with older adults.

Sue Watson BSc, PhD, CPsychol, Oxford Dip. CT
Course Director, Statement of Equivalence Programme
Research interests: Outcome and process issues in cognitive therapy and personal construct therapy; borderline personality disorder; obsessive-compulsive disorder

Amanda C de C Williams BSc, MSc, PhD, CPsychol
Reader
Research interests: Chronic (persistent) pain; CBT for pain management, methods and outcomes; depression and depressed mood in pain; use of opioids; pain from torture.

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Honorary Lecturers

Barney Dunn MA PhD DClinPsy
Honorary Lecturer
Research Interests: Emotion regulation in mood disorders; Self-focused
attention; Personality disorders; Role of the body in psychopathology.

Sarah Mackenzie Ross MA, MPhil, DPsychol, AFBPsS
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology

Mike Watts BSc, DClinPsy
Honorary Lecturer
Adult forensic psychology; Cognition and fitness to plead and stand trial; Adult neuropsychology.

Administrative Staff - Who's Who

Julia Curl - Senior Administrator: Tel: 020-7679 1896
For queries about:
- Exam Board;
- research expenses

Leah Markwick - Academic Administrator Tel: 020-7679 5699
For queries about:
- the time-table / teaching programme;
- coursework- case reports;
- room bookings/equipment;
- the website

Jon Davis - Clinical Placements Administrator: Tel: 020-7679 1603
For queries about:
- trainee change of address;
- placement paperwork (contracts, end of placement feedback reports, etc);
- trainee attendance, holiday and sick leave;
- travel claims;

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