Research / Scholarship
Research services
include:
Research collaboration.
Research supervision, including at Masters and Doctoral levels.
Research dissemination
"Nettlesome knowledge" (Sibbett, 2005, 2006)
Liminality and psychotherapy, art psychotherapy, education / learning (Sibbett, 2005; etc)
A selection of academic work is available at:
Research Interests
include:
Promoting emotional / mental health and wellbeing.
Promoting creativity; emotional intelligence / literacy. Training for counselling / art psychotherapy.
Suicidality, suicide postvention.
"Nettlesome knowledge" (Sibbett, 2005, 2006), liminality and threshold concepts in learning & teaching and professional cultures.
Liminality in psychotherapy, art psychotherapy, education / learning, and in life-threatening experience e.g. cancer experience (Sibbett, 2005; etc).
Counselling / art therapy with children and young people, particularly in schools; promoting emotional health & wellbeing in schools
Learning and teaching, also within professional / organisational cultures.
CPD needs of teachers, particularly in relation to pastoral care. Learning paradigms. Medical education. Arts-based and qualitative research approaches.
Art Therapy / Art Psychotherapy, Counselling, Psychotherapy, wellbeing, mental health, loss, attachment, vicarious stress / trauma, suicide, palliative care.
Appraisal and performance management training, particularly in Higher Education.
Inclusion, social justice, special / additional needs.
Ethical practice in research generally and specifically when using arts-based research approaches.
Research Approach
Mixed methods: qualitative, arts-based, quantitative.
The research approach is guided by research ethics and is also informed by earth caring values.
Research - a coherent approach
Practice in, and research of, counselling / psychotherapy and art therapy / art psychotherapy requires "a coherent approach" (HCPC, 2023, BACP, 2022, 2024). To ensure a coherent approach in research, I adhere to relevant research frameworks, standards, and research ethical frameworks and codes, as well as robust methodologies and methods.
My 'coherent approach' features a coherent whole which has a governance CORE of good research governance, ethics, laws, and related standards and competences. This core supports and nourishes an integrative framework guiding the diverse ELEMENTS of evidence-based theories and associated practices including robust methodologies and associated methods.
I am a member of the Clinical Supervision Research Collaborative - an international community of supervision researchers and practitioners.
