Experience

Great Marlow School

• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Department for A level Psychology at Great Marlow School

  • Sep 2016 - Present



Co-author of Brilliant Baby names, a psychological insight into how names influece person perception

• Co~Author

  • Jul 2005 - Sep 2016

  Co-author of Brilliant Baby Names: how to choose a name that you and your child will love for life. Geoff and Laura King, Pearson Books.The authorative text consider the social psychology behind first names and how for example a name can influence a child's opportunities at school, in love and at work. Co-author of Brilliant Baby Names: how to choose a name that you and your child will love for life. Geoff and Laura King, Pearson Books.The authorative text consider the social psychology behind first names and how for example a name can influence a child's opportunities at school, in love and at work.



Buckinghamshire Adult Learning Centres

• Psychology Tutor

  • Jan 2003 - Aug 2016

  Short courses and one day workshops, including Taster Psychology Sessions; Turning Negatives into Positives; Myths of Addictive Behaviour; Understanding Stress; Introduction to Child Psychology; Raising Awareness to Eating Disorders; Mental Health Awareness; Confidence Building and Motivational Interviewing.A hugely rewarding position where there is a mutual interchange of learning , where there is an opportunity to open up awareness of new interests, fulfill those yearnings people have to learn about a subject that they previously did not get an opportunity to learn about, and replace negative childhood experiences of learning with positive ones.



Pipers Corner Independent School

• Psychology Teacher A level

  • Sep 2004 - Jul 2007



Collingham Independent Sixth Form College

• Psychology Teacher - part time

  • Sep 2000 - Jun 2003

  Teaching Psychology at A and AS levels within a small group setting. Teaching Psychology at A and AS levels within a small group setting.



Southbank University Morley College

• Psychology Lecturer Part-time

  • Apr 2000 - Aug 2002



St. George's Hospital Tooting, Dept. of Psychological Medicine

• Education and Training Facilitator for Addictive Behaviours

  • Sep 1998 - Jan 2001

  Part of a team involved in the planning and delivery of a range of short practical courses and university accredited courses to do with addictive behaviour and dual diagnosis. I was also involved in research within The Department under Prof. Hamid Ghodse, Head of United Nations’ International Narcotics Control Board. Part of a team involved in the planning and delivery of a range of short practical courses and university accredited courses to do with addictive behaviour and dual diagnosis. I was also involved in research within The Department under Prof. Hamid Ghodse, Head of United Nations’ International Narcotics Control Board.



Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College

• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lecturer in Health Psychology

  • May 1997 - Sep 1998

  Working as part of a team for Project 2000 Nurse Training, including ENB specialist courses. Working as part of a team for Project 2000 Nurse Training, including ENB specialist courses.



Gravesend Grammar School for Girls, Kent

• Psychology Teacher

  • Sep 1995 - May 1997

  Teacher of A-level Psychology at an all-girls Grammar School. Teacher of A-level Psychology at an all-girls Grammar School.



Institute for Child Health, University College London

• Research Project Coordinator, for CJD follow-up trials

  • Jan 1994 - Jun 1995

  Coordinator of fixed term follow up study, relating to the psychosocial impact of being at risk of having CJD, amongst those patients who received potentially contaminating human growth hormone (hGH) in childhood prior to the development of chemical growth hormone. The project was run by Prof MA Preece University College London in conjunction with the CJD surveillance unit at Edinburgh Uni. Coordinator of fixed term follow up study, relating to the psychosocial impact of being at risk of having CJD, amongst those patients who received potentially contaminating human growth hormone (hGH) in childhood prior to the development of chemical growth hormone. The project was run by Prof MA Preece University College London in conjunction with the CJD surveillance unit at Edinburgh Uni.