CPU staff, research fellows, supervisors and students
Director
The Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit is Professor Stephen Palmer PhD CPsychol CMIOSH CSci.He is a leading pioneer of the coaching psychology movement in the UK and in December 2004 he became the first Chair of the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology.
He is Honorary President of the Association for Coaching and Honorary Vice President of the Society for Coaching Psychology (SCP) and the International Stress Management Association (UK). He is an Association for Professional Executive Coaching & Supervision (APECS) Accredited Executive Coach and Supervisor, and a SCP Accredited Coaching Psychologist.
He has authored or edited over 35 books and published over 150 articles. His most recent book is the Handbook of Coaching Psychology (co-edited with Whybrow). He is the UK Co-ordinating Editor of the International Coaching Psychology Review, Consultant Editor of The Coaching Psychologist and Counselling Psychology Review, Editor of the International Journal of Health Promotion & Education, and Executive Editor of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice.
In December, 2008 at the 1st European Coaching Psychology Conference, he received from the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology the 'Lifetime Achievement Award in Recognition of Distinguished Contribution to Coaching Psychology'. Read the BPS press release.
Honorary Research Fellows
In October 2008 the Coaching Psychology Unit appointed two Honorary Research Fellows, Dr Kristina Gyllensten and Dr Siobhain O'Riordan.
Kristina Gyllensten was the Unit's first successful student and obtained her DPsych in 2006. The title of her thesis was 'An investigation into workplace stress and the role of coaching'. She was a Research Officer for the British Psychological Society's Special Group in Coaching Psychology and is now a Director of the Swedish Centre for Work Based Learning.
Dr Siobhain O'Riordan is former Chair of the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology and is now Chair of the Society for Coaching Psychology. She is Consultant Editor of The Coaching Psychologist. Both Kristina and Siobhain provide supervision and support to our current doctorate students. They are very active professionally in the field of coaching psychology.
Staff
Department of Psychology staff who are associated with the Coaching Psychology Unit include:- Dr Malcolm Cross
- Dr Dee Danchev
- Dr Jacqui Farrants
- Dr Paul Flaxman
- Professor Marina Gulina
- Dr Paul Holland
- Dr Deborah Rafalin
- Dr Don Rawson
- Dr Catherine Sykes
As a team we actively encourage and support our doctorate students in publishing academic articles and giving conference papers on their research topics.