Dr. John RE Fox
Date of Birth: 31st October 1970
Email: john.fox@manchester.ac.uk
Qualifications
PhD in Clinical Psychology - University of Edinburgh. 2010.
D.Clin.Psy - Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. University of Wales, Cardiff. 2002.
B.Sc. (Hons.) - Psychology. Royal Holloway University of London Class: 2(1). 1995
Post Graduate Diploma/ ACAT North CAT Practitioner Course: 2-year Practitioner Training
Course in Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT). ACAT North/ Sheffield Hallam University
Basic Certificate in Emotion Focused Therapy - York University, Toronto, Canada (2011)
Advanced Certificate in Emotion Focused Therapy - York University, Toronto, Canada (2011)
Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies
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Associate Editor of Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.
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Chartered Clinical Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS)
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Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS)
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Full Member of the Division of Clinical Psychology, BPS
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Registered Clinical Psychologist with Health Professions Council (HPC)
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Member of British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
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Practitioner Member of the Association of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT)
Clinical Employment
March 2007 – Present day
Consultant Clinical Psychologist (part –time 0.5)
Eating Disorders Service, Cheadle Royal Hospital, Manchester
I have been responsible for developing and being the professional lead for psychological therapies
for the eating disorder’s service. This work has taken three strands, which are:
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Direct clinical work – In my role as psychological lead I have worked with the most complex
clients (either by their eating disorder &/ or underlying personality difficulties). This work
has been drawn from a number of theoretical orientations, such as CBT, CAT, schema and
DBT. Through this direct clinical work I have also taken a lead for developing a group
program, such as mindfulness, emotional regulation and CAT groups.
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I have also undertook specific interventions for trauma, including complex traumas and PTSD.
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Consultancy – The above theoretical approaches inform my consultancy skills, where I have
worked with the MDT to help them to develop a more psychological understanding of clients
on the unit. This working with staff has included attendance at MDT meetings, direct
formulation meetings and informal meetings with staff when they have been struggling.
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Staff Training - I have a significant amount of training on self-harm, personality disorders,
frustrations with recovery and the need for complex formulations.
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Supervision – I have been a very active supervisor in this post, where I have supervised
junior clinical psychologists, trainee clinical psychologists, CBT therapists, assistant
psychologists, junior doctors and nursing staff.
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Management – I have been the line manager for clinical psychologists, CBT therapists and
assistants. This work has involved sitting on various management boards.
May 2003 – March 2007 (0.5 from April 2005)
Clinical Psychologist (Primary Care/ Eating Disorders)
Manchester Mental Health and Social Care NHS Trust, Clinical Psychology, Laureate House,
Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester
This post was predominantly a clinical post, where I worked clinically into a primary care clinical
psychology service and a city wide eating disorders service. Through this post, I worked with people
with differing personality, mood and some psychotic difficulties (e.g. delusional disorder, hearing
voices).
I also supervised trainee clinical psychologists, undertook consultation work and worked on service
development panel for developing the eating disorders services in Manchester.
October 2002 – May 2003
Research Fellow/ Forensic Clinical Psychologist
University of Manchester and Edenfield Medium Secure Forensic Unit, Bolton, Salford and Trafford
NHS Trust, Bury New Road, Manchester.
Through this post I worked in a research team to develop and undertake research on forensic clinical
psychology, such as risk assessment, neuropsychology and clinical interventions, especially with
people with psychotic symptoms. I also worked one day a week as a forensic clinical psychologist on
the unit.
Academic Employment
February 2011 – Present Day
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology (Part time - 0.5)
Division of Clinical Psychology, University of Manchester
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Over the last five years I have been working on developing a programme of research on all
aspects of eating disorders. This has included looking at emotional functioning,
phenomenological aspects of anorexia nervosa and living with life long, enduring anorexia
nervosa. I have also been pivotal in developing a North of England research group that has
started to apply for funding from the ESRC and the European Union. This group has included
John Morgan, Mel Temple, Saeideh Saeidi, Stephanie Tierney, Ken Goss and Alison Wearden.
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Regular attendee of all the business meetings of the training programme, including the
examination board, course executive and research team meetings.
 Supervisor of doctoral students (both PhD and Clin.Psy.D) on a variety of research projects
that use either qualitative or quantitative research methodologies.
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I also contribute to the teaching by giving lectures on qualitative methodologies and
working with people with eating disorders.
 I am the programme coordinator for the service related projects. I am also the module
organizer for the leadership and working organizationally with systems.
 I am also coordinator for the cognitive-behavioural therapy teaching and I am working with a
number of agencies in having this teaching accredited with British Association of
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).
December 2008 – February 2011
Lecturer in Research Methods (Part-time – 0.5).
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Division of Health Research, Lancaster University
I was involved in the following roles: •
Regular attendee of all the business meetings of the training programme, including the
examination board, management meetings and stakeholder meetings.
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Supervisor of doctoral students on a variety of research projects that have used either
qualitative or quantitative research methodologies.
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I contributed to the teaching by giving lectures on qualitative methodologies, working with
people with eating disorders and quantitative research design and statistics.
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Finally I was the coordinator for the service related projects, which is a 12,000 word research
project that runs over the first 18 months of training.
April 2005 – December 2008 - Academic Tutor in Clinical Psychology (part time - 0.5)
Division of Clinical Psychology, University of Manchester
My duties involved:  Regular attendee of all the business meetings of the training programme, including the
examination board, course executive and research team meetings.
 Supervisor of 9 doctoral students on a variety of research projects that have used either
qualitative or quantitative research methodologies (all passed either with no or minor
corrections).
 I have also contributed to the teaching by giving lectures on qualitative methodologies,
working with people with eating disorders and quantitative research design and statistics.
 I was also been the coordinator for the service related projects.
 Developed the e-learning resources for the programme. This included developing the use of
videos on the website and looking of ways of incorporating these into the programme.