THE TEAM OF TUTORS
The majority of teaching on the programme is carried out by members of the core
staff team (although lectures and seminars on specialist topics are provided by
educational psychologists and other professionals working for LEAs, social services
departments, the NHS and voluntary organisations). Programme staffing, which fully
complies with British Psychological Society requirements, comprises a Course
Director, four tutors who are senior educational psychologists working part-time in
LEA psychological services and two Tutors, working part-time on the programme,
who are lecturers and researchers in the Department of Psychology. In addition the
MSc benefits from input by the Co-Directors of the Part-time DEdPsy programme.
Course Director: Professor Norah Frederickson BSc, PGCE, MSc, PhD, FBPsS,
C.Psychol. (Senior Educational Psychologist, Buckinghamshire)
Following her first degree in Psychology at Sussex University and her PGCE at
Redland College, Bristol, Norah taught in middle schools in Berkshire and
Buckinghamshire before completing her professional training in educational
psychology at UCL in 1981. Since then Norah has worked as an educational
psychologist in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire and she has been a member of
the team at UCL, initially as a professional tutor (1986-1994), and since as Director
of the Educational Psychology Group.
Her research interests include: social competence in children, applications of
systems theory in education and phonological skills in reading development and
dyslexia. Publications and conference presentations include the following areas: the
practice of educational psychology, continuing professional development for
educational psychologists, effective inservice training, systems work with schools,
stress in schools, social aspects of inclusion, developing children’s social skills,
psychological assessment, the assessment of bilingual children, curriculum-related
assessment and ways of assessing and developing phonological skills related to
reading progress.
Dr Sandra Dunsmuir BSc, PGCE, MSc, PhD, AFBPsS, C.Psychol. (Senior
Educational
Psychologist, Reading)
Sandra completed her degree in Psychology at the City University, London in 1980
and undertook a PGCE at Avery Hill College, London the following year. She taught
in primary schools in Tower Hamlets and at a unit for secondary aged pupils with
emotional and behavioural difficulties in Croydon. She completed her professional
training in Educational Psychology at UCL in 1986. Since then she has worked as an
Educational Psychologist in Kent, Croydon and West Berkshire.
Sandra has contributed to various aspects of the MSc professional training course in
Educational Psychology at UCL since 1990. She is currently researching writing
development in children aged between 4 and 7 years.
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Beverley Graham Cert Ed, BSc, MSc, C. Psychol (Senior Educational
Psychologist, Hackney)
Having gained a Certificate of Education from Lady Mabel College, Barnsley,
Beverley’s teaching career was extensive, covering all phases. It began with the
Inner London Education Authority, subsequently including Camden, Westminster
and Hackney. Her final teaching post was within Intermediate Treatment, which
provided young people with an alternative programme to a custodial sentence. In
this post she was able to develop and explore the use of behavioural management
techniques and their psychological impact upon young people. Beverley trained as
an educational psychologist at the Institute of Education in London. Over the past
10 years she has worked in clinical and educational settings in the London boroughs
of Brent, Redbridge and Hackney and has undertaken further study in educational
management.
Beverley joined the team at UCL in September 1995. Current research interests
include emotional intelligence and how associated interventions might be effectively
employed to reduce the rate of exclusion in educational settings.
Jessica Hudson BSc, PGCE, MSc, C. Psychol (Senior Educational
Psychologist, Harrow)
Following her degree in Psychology at the University of Birmingham, Jessica
completed a three-year preparatory programme for Masters training at Southampton
University. This involved a PGCE, two years teaching in Portsmouth and action
research connected to the MSc in Educational Psychology. Jessica then finished her
professional training at UCL in 2000. At present Jessica is in her third year on the
CPD Doctorate in Educational Psychology (DEdPsy) at UCL.
Jessica’s current research interests include: the teaching of children’s thinking skills,
the effectiveness of Nurture Groups and the development of supervision within the
profession. Jessica has presented at national and international conferences on
research into Activating Children’s Thinking Skills (ACTS). This research
incorporates working in collaboration with Professor Carol McGuinness at Queen’s
University, Belfast and parallels a sister project being conducted in Northern Ireland.
The work aims to ascertain the impact of ACTS at a student, staff and school level in
the tuition of thinking skills.
Dr. Jeremy Monsen BEd, MEd, MA, Dip Ed Psych, PhD, AFBPsS, C Psychol.
(Senior Educational Psychologist, Kent)
After completing a Master’s degree in education and psychology and teacher
training at Waikato University, New Zealand, Jeremy taught at primary, secondary
and tertiary levels in New Zealand and in Junior High schools in Japan. He
subsequently undertook a Master’s degree and post-Master’s professional training in
Child and Educational Psychology at the University of Auckland. Over the past ten
years Jeremy has worked in a range of applied settings both in Education and Social
Services Departments. He arrived in England in 1991 and has worked as an
educational psychologist in Waltham Forest and Kent. He has been a member of the
team at UCL since 1995.
His current research interest involves an investigation of initial interviewing skills and
their relationship to problem analysis quality. His recent publications and conference
presentations include the following areas: action research designed to improve the
effectiveness of schools in managing challenging child behaviours and applications
of the problem analysis framework.
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Dr Robin Murphy BA, MA, PhD ILTM (Lecturer)
Robin obtained his undergraduate degree at Queen's University in Ontario Canada.
He then spent a year as a research/therapy assistant at a federal penitentiary in
Canada. He then moved to Montreal and completed an MA and PhD at McGill in
animal learning under Dr.A.G.Baker. While finishing his dissertation he took up a
lectureship at the University of Hertfordshire where he was prior to joining the
Psychology Department at UCL in 2003.
Robin's major areas of interest are in animal learning and behaviour and in particular
associative explanations of the animal mind and the workings of the brain. He is also
interested in the application of animal models to human data. Currently he has
projects involving animal correlation learning and sequence learning as well as
research designed to explore human depression, negative stereotype formation and
folk understanding of causation.
Dr Anne Schlottmann Vordiplom (BSc), MA, PhD. (Senior Lecturer)
After initial study at the Ruhr Universität Bochum in Germany, Anne went to the USA
on a Fulbright scholarship to study at the University of California, San Diego. On
completion of her PhD she moved to England, where she has been a lecturer in the
UCL Psychology Department for the last four years.
Research interests and publications include: development of cognition and
reasoning; the perception of intentional and mechanical causation; probabilistic
reasoning and information integration theory.
Co-Director Part-time DEdPsy: Dr Seán Cameron BSc, Cert Ed, MSc, PhD,
FBPsS, C.Psychol
After completing his first degree at the University of Southampton in 1970, Seán’s
teaching experience took place in primary, secondary and special education and
was followed by a Master’s degree at UCL. From 1970 until 1992, he held a variety
of posts in the Hampshire Educational Psychology Service, including that of
associate tutor on the Southampton University MSc programme in Educational
Psychology (10 years) and regional organiser of continuing professional
development for educational psychologists (5 years). Between 1992 and 2004 he
was a Senior Educational Psychologist in Surrey LEA. He has been director of the
part-time DEdPsy at UCL since 1999.
In 2004, nominated by the UCL DEdPsy
students, he received the British Psychological Society’s Annual Award for
Distinguished Contributions to the Teaching of Psychology.
As a founder member of the first UK Portage Home Teaching Service he helped to
develop training workshops for home teachers and promoted the growth of Portage
services throughout the British Isles. He is also a founder committee member of both
the National and International Portage Association. His work in this area was
recognised by the British Psychological Society, which awarded him a fellowship in
June 1991. Current professional development and research interest areas include:
planning and evaluating organisational change, developing paradigms for action
research, meta-cognitive approaches in the classroom, the management of
behaviour, assessing and teaching young people who have specific learning
difficulties/dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, evaluating
approaches to parental empowerment and continuing professional development for
practising educational psychologists.
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Co-Director Part-time DEdPsy: Professor Tony Cline BA, Dip Psych, PhD,
FBPsS, C Psychol. (Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of
Luton)
Tony initially worked in inner city and suburban areas around London as a teacher in
primary and secondary schools and as an educational psychologist. He then spent
eight years as Principal Educational Psychologist for the Inner London Education
Authority. Subsequently he moved into higher education, firstly as Professional
Director of Training in Educational Psychology at UCL and after that at the University
of Luton, where his posts included Head of the newly established Psychology
Department and Head of the Centre for Education Studies. He returned to UCL in
September 2004.
Tony’s publications have covered a wide range of subjects, including psychological
assessment, special educational needs, the education of bilingual children and
selective mutism. Most recent research projects have focused on literacy learning
difficulties of bilingual pupils (funded by the DfES), the education of minority ethnic
children in mainly white schools (funded by the DfES), routes into teaching (funded
by the TTA) and young people’s representations of child development (funded by
the ESRC). Tony chaired the Editorial Board of the National Association of Special
Educational Needs for six years and has organized and led national conferences for
the British Dyslexia Association and the National Association for Language
Development in the Curriculum.
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