Details of the latest workshops and seminars can be found on the page dedicated to training and events run by the Centre.
Students who completed their PhDs with us:
John Durkin
'Psychological Growth following adversity: The role of social support'
Supervisors: Professor Stephen Joseph and Dr Hugh Middleton
Lynne McCormack
'Primary and vicarious growth following genocide, war and humanitarian emergencies: An interpretatitve phenomenological analysis'.
Supervisors: Professor Stephen Joseph and Professor Martin Hagger
Current PhD students
Hannah Stockton: Cognitive processing and growth following trauma
Jessica Dunn: Stress in the Jamaican Police Force
Saad Jaber: Diagnosis and intervention of PTSD in conflict areas
Angela Ndunge: Stress and trauma in humanitarian aid workers
Yinyin Zang: Narrative interventions for post-earthquake trauma
Kristyna Buskova: Examining intergenerational problems associated with Communist-era Czechoslovakia
Prema Nirgude: Dyadic support in cancer sufferers and their partners
Mohammed Alghamdi: Psychological impact of loss in a sample of Saudi people
Ashraf Falaiyah: Using NLP technology in the treatment of PTSD
Neetu Rana: Understanding narratives among Indian widows
Relevant completed students
Itaf Abed: Reproductive and sexual health needs of disabled women in Gaza
Karen Burnell: The reconciliation of traumatic memories through the adult lifespan, the relationship between social support and narrative coherence
Aaron Cortes: Psychoneuroimmunology: A cross-cultural biopsychosocial study of the role of perceived social support for people living with HIV/Aids.
Suzanne Ogden: Narrative completeness:, coherence and PTSD in a sample of combat veterans
Emma Booker: How do paramedics foster resilience and deal with trauma?
We encourage potential research student applications in the following areas:
- Growth following adversity; posttraumatic growth
- School bullying, effects on mental health and PTSD
- Psychometric assessment, PTSD, posttraumatic growth
- Psychological effect of traumatic injury/Road Traffic Collision
- Social support, coping, emotional expression
- Cognitive approaches
- Childhood abuse
- Client-centred therapy and person-centred theory
- Political violence
- Childbirth-related trauma
- Occupational stress, emergency services
- Religion and trauma
- EMDR
- Vicarious effects of trauma
- Politics of trauma
- Trauma in children and young people
- Therapeutic process
We encourage research that is either qualitative or quantitative in nature, and invite applicants with backgrounds in the social and behavioural sciences, social work, nursing, counselling, psychology and psychotherapy.
We are also interested to receive enquiries from courses and individuals regarding placements in counselling and psychotherapy, social work, nursing, and clinical and counselling psychology. We currently have two placement trainees with us.
Please note: as from January 2012 until further notice we are not accepting any placements because of various practical and logistical considerations. However, please revisit the site at a later date.
The Social Work Student Placement Unit opened in 2008. More information can be found on the Unit's dedicated page.
Post-Graduate Certificate, Diploma, Masters in Trauma Studies
Since 2007 we have run a Post-Graduate Certificate in Trauma Studies. Originally developed by Professor Stephen Joseph and now directed by Dr David Murphy. The course is unique in offering students the opportunity to learn about trauma and also to reflect on and develop their professional skills.
The course is specifically designed for people in an employment context relevant to trauma, eg. providing pastoral or therapeutic support, counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, emergency service workers, aid agency workers, nurses, social workers, prison service workers, child abuse workers, teachers, youth offending or other appropriate employment contexts.
The course is structured to develop the awareness, understanding and competencies of a wide range of professionals in the field of trauma, who want to broaden their understanding, underpin their practice with theory, and to be part of a small supportive and reflective learning community.
From 2012 we will be offering the full route through diploma to Masters degree.
In the meantime we continue to hold the Postgraduate Certificate in Trauma Studies
