A Chartered Occupational Psychologist, my interests cut across areas of work and organisational psychology, specifically, human resource development in public sector organisations. As a practitioner psychologist and academic, my research and KE focus is two-fold: (1) the design of employability and education services for a variety of learners and (2) the people strategy that underlines the effective delivery of those services. 

I teach across professionally accredited postgraduate programmes in the Business School, including MSc Human Resource Management, MSc Business and Management, and MSc International Management. Driven to promote work psychology in Scotland, I have successfully proposed (currently developing) WEO's new postgraduate offer, MSc Work and Organisational Psychology. In addition, I am leading the development of WEO's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) offer in the field of work psychology. 

• Human resource development
• Employability and career management
• Professional practice in welfare provision
• Coaching and personal development

I teach several areas of work and organisational psychology across professionally accredited postgraduate programmes in the Department of Work, Employment and Organisation and the MBA unit.

Topics include:

• Employee Reward
• Human Resource Development
• Managing People in Organisations
• Stress and wellbeing
• Employability
• Career Development
• Coaching and Mentoring

My research interests lie in the delivery of welfare programmes, specifically personalised employability and skills provision directed at disadvantaged jobseekers.

Examples of projects include:

• inclusive recruitment for disabled people;
• skills mismatch across Glasgow’s young workforce;
• UK Government’s Work Programme monitoring and evaluation strategy;
• retention issues in social care organisations;
• attraction, retention and development of chefs in Scotland;
• distance travelled (employability) at a national disability charity.

In addition, I have developed research and evaluation guidance/governance for the Research and Evaluation Team, internal staff and partners at Skills Development Scotland (SDS).

University of Strathclyde 

• PhD Work, Employment and Organisation (2020)
• MSc Occupational Psychology (2010)
• BA (Honours) Psychology (2003)

British Psychological Society (BPS)

• Awarded Associate Fellow status (2016)
• Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors (RAPPS) (2015)
• Qualification in Occupational Psychology (QOP) (Stage 2) (2012)
• Assessment Test User: Occupational (Ability and Personality) (2010)