Research
As Director of Studies for the following Doctoral thesis projects:
2020-2023 Stories of people with dementia who experience word-finding difficulties (Narrative Analysis, NA)
2019-2023 A Participatory Action Research study: Dementia and Human Rights (PAR)
2019-2022 Stories of surviving through hardship in elder Sikh Punjabi women (NA)
A Collective Narrative Practice Methodology in the case of LGBTQI+ Muslims (NA and PAR)
2017-2020 A collaborative investigation of the experiences of elders using an older adult home treatment team; from understanding to action (PAR)
Living with Suicide: Collective Narrative Practice with People Experiencing Ongoing Suicidality (NA and PAR)
Collective Resistance as a Means to Healing. A Collective Narrative Participatory Project with Black and Ethnic Minority LGBT Refugee and Asylum-Seeking People (NA and PAR)
2016-2019 Telling and re-telling stories: Staff witnessing narratives from people diagnosed with dementia (NA)
Becoming and Being: Special Guardians’ Stories of Kinship Care (NA)
2015-2018 Narratives of Christian and Muslim qualified and trainee Clinical Psychologists working in the NHS (NA)
Exploring supervisor responses to issues of race, culture and ethnicity in clinical psychology supervision, and the systemic factors influencing this (Thematic Analysis, TA)
“Who am I?” Personal accounts of the dementia assessment process and the impact of the dementia label (NA)
Stories of the impact on the family when one member has been given a diagnosis of dementia (NA)
2013-2017 The Stage ofLife: A collective narrative project with transgender young people in the community (NA)
Narratives of Extreme Adversity and Strength Amongst Eritrean Refugee People (NA)
Qualified and Trainee Clinical Psychologists Experiences of Holding Religious or Spiritual Beliefs whilst Working within the NHS (NA)
Exploring Factors That Influence Peer-Relations among Older Adults Living in Residential Homes (TA)
2013-2016 Exploring Young Peoples' Constructions of a First Episode of Psychosis (NA)
Narratives of Hope, Fear And Expectations: Young People With Cochlear Implants (NA)
How do people from the Indian Gujarati community make sense of help-seeking for mental health problems?(TA)
Exploring how Clinical Psychologists in Forensic Settings Construct Psychopathy (Foucauldian Discourse Analysis)
2012-2016 Factual television documentaries and mental distress: a narrative analysis
Understanding Experience and Constructing Identity in ‘Spirituality; Transformative Accounts of ‘Psychosis’: A Study of First-Person Narratives on the Internet (NA).
A Narrative Analysis of Experiences of a Residential Care Farm for Young People
The Sacred, Supernatural and Spiritual: Attitudes and beliefs of faith leaders and mental health clinicians regarding religion and mental health (TA)
2011-2015 A Narrative Study Exploring Survivor/Service-User Professionals' Accounts of Sharing Personal Experiences at Work (NA)
2011-2014 Participatory Research with People with Social Anxiety (Research Thesis for Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology utilising NA and PAR)
A Narrative Analysis of Service User Accounts of Recovery from Psychosis
2010-2013 Effectiveness and meaning of ‘low intensity’ cognitive behavioural interventions for Latin American immigrants in London (mixed methods: TA and quantitative)
Autism and the Experience of Closeness (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, IPA)
Staff Perspectives on Getting to Know an Individual with Dementia (TA)
2009-2012 Surviving on the Streets: a Qualitative Study of Resilience Among London’s Homeless Adults (IPA)
Womens’ Experiences of Breast Cancer when Diagnosed in Old Age (IPA)
How Can the Experience of Being on a Community Treatment Order Be Understood in Service User Narratives? (NA)
Other research roles, including as Research Team Lead, Doctoral Thesis Narrative Analysis Group Supervisor, External Supervisor, PhD Second Supervisor and Master's Dissertation Supervisor:
2023-ongoing The Families Windrush left behind: a qualitative study exploring the narratives of elder Black Caribbean adult’s identity, mental health challenges and help-seeking views
2016-18 Digital Media in Therapy: Development & Evaluation of a Participatory Radio Drama Intervention to Improve Psychotherapy Outcomes among At-Risk Youth with Conduct Disorder
2014-2019 Narratives of War: How Somali Women Story Their Experiences of War
2013-2015 Exploring Children's Stories of Becoming 'Mighty': A Narrative Analysis
2013 The Tree of Life’ as a narrative approach to migratory grief among South American migrants in the UK
2012 A Narrative Analysis of Poetry from the Words of People with a Diagnosis of Dementia.