Research
Research services
include:
Research collaboration.
Research supervision, including at Masters and Doctoral levels.
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.
"Nettlesome knowledge" (Sibbett, 2005, 2006), liminality and threshold concepts in learning & teaching and professional cultures.
Counselling / art therapy with children and young people, particularly in schools; promoting 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.