The Psychology and Counselling area at Newman has a focus on issues around health, well-being and applied psychology. The subject area has major strengths in the teaching of professional courses in Counselling and applied aspects of Psychology, and this drives the research agenda.
Research Interests:
Health, well-being and counselling:
- Assessment and rehabilitation of the dys-executive syndrome
- Students’ health risk perception, health knowledge and health behaviour
- Deliberate self-harm and suicide in adolescence
- The emergence of spirituality in contemporary psychoanalysis
- The relationship between postgraduate students’ life and learning experiences and academic outcome. The impact of this on support and counselling provision in higher education
- Developing the interface of contemporary neuroscience and evolutionary biology with the theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy
- Assessing the competence of counsellors in working with sexual minorities and ways in which the teaching and training can be enhanced
- Counselling psychology interventions for clients with neurological conditions and their carers
- Masculinity and counselling.
Applied Psychology:
- Human factors (HCI, environmental conditions)
- Eye witness testimony and the influence of different questioning techniques
- Motor development in young people and specifically how children with visual impairments use auditory information to provide feedback for locomotion.
Members of the research team
