I am Associate Head for Quality and Accreditation within the school of Psychological, Social and Behavioural Sciences at Coventry University, and previously Associate Head for Student Experience. I create and lead on initiatives to support academic staff in the delivery of education with high quality academic standards, maximising student engagement and student experience.

I am a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society, a qualified Coach and Mentor (ILM), and a fellow of Advance HE. I have a BSc in Psychology, an MSc in Forensic Psychology, and a PhD in offender rehabilitation.

Since 2009 I have been working with Probation Trusts, CICs and Charities that support males and females through behavioural change to reduce harm. This work involves a number of services including:
- Conducting research to establish the organisation's ethos and help them to clarify their mission and vision for supporting their clients
- Designing strengths-based behavioural change programmes tailored for how the organisation
works with clients (primarily solution-focused, sometimes trauma-informed or compassion focused)
- Facilitator training
- Train the trainer
- Facilitator supervision
- Routine programme updates to reflect contemporary research and current best practice therapeutic methods and refresher training to maintain therapeutic alignment

Areas of Expertise:

Leadership in student experience, quality and accreditation. Psychology, offender rehabilitation, solution-focused therapy, coaching and mentoring.

Offender rehabilitation, strengths-based approaches to the treatment of offenders, Criminal Justice Processes

I see that in the future, the most effective offender rehabilitation programmes will prove to be those that adopt strengths-based approaches, that encourage and empower facilitators to work therapeutically with individuals, including those deemed unmotivated to change.