Coaching Psychology Unit hires new Deputy Directors

City’s Coaching Psychology Unit appoints two of its Honorary Research Fellows as Deputy Directors.

City’s Coaching Psychology Unit (CPU), the second such facility in the world to be located at a university, has appointed two of its Honorary Research Fellows as Deputy Directors of the Unit.


Coaching psychologists Dr Siobhain O’Riordan and Dr Kristina Gyllensten will help the CPU to expand its doctoral research programme, which has previously seen its students speak at major international conferences; publish work in key coaching and psychology journals; and increase the profession’s knowledge on the importance of the coach-coachee relationship.

Dr Kristina Gyllensten DPsych, was the first student to obtain her Doctor of Psychology at the CPU and has published widely on stress and coaching. Before taking up her new role at the Unit, she was a Research Officer for the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology (BPS SGCP) and is considered to be an authority on stress and coaching.

 

Former Chairperson of the BPS SGCP, Dr Siobhain O'Riordan, is one of the founders of the Society for Coaching Psychology and is now its Chair. Siobhain’s work focuses on executive, personal and retirement coaching. Currently Siobhain is also Editor of The Coaching Psychologist, Coaching Psychology International as well as News and Features Editor of the International Journal of Health Promotion & Education.

 

“Kristina and Siobhain bring with them a wealth of experience from the worlds of academia and practice and it is this which will benefit our PhD and DPsych students, as they develop their own projects and careers, ” says Professor Stephen Palmer, Director of City’s Coaching Psychology Unit.

 

For more information about City’s Coaching Psychology Unit, visit its website.



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Date of Article:  01/02/2010