Staff profile
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
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Dept: Applied Psychology
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Campus: Salomons
Fergal Jones is a clinical psychologist and senior lecturer in the Department of Applied Psychology, Salomons Campus. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1996 with a first class psychology degree, and went on to study for a Ph.D. in experimental psychology at the university. The research area was sequence learning. Following his Ph.D., Fergal trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of Surrey, qualifying in 2003. For the next four years he worked full time in the NHS, dividing his time between a community mental health team for working age adults and a psychological therapies service. He joined the department here in 2008 and continues to work part-time in the NHS, in an improving access to psychological therapies service.
Fergal is an accredited cognitive behavioural therapist with the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies and has a post-graduate diploma with distinction in Teaching Mindfulness-Based Courses from the University of Bangor. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Fergal's clinical work is with adults with common mental health problems and his main therapeutic approaches are cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. Fergal's recent research interests include mindfulness-based approaches, the perseveration of distressing experiences associated with mental health problems, and sequence learning.
Funding
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MRC
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Ph.D. Studentship
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Thesis: Evidence for dissociable learning processes from the SRT task
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1996- 1999
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Canterbury Christ Church University: Small Research Grant
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£961
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Further investigation and modelling of human sequence learning. (Principle Investigator.)
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2008-2010
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Sussex Partnership NHS Trust: Own Account Funding
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£25,510
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Working with service-users to develop a low intensity, cognitive behavioural intervention for distressing worry and anxiety, based on mood-as-input theory. (Principle Investigator.)
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2009-2010
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Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
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£107,404
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Improving communication, clinical decision making and working practices in the field of mental health (with Dr Doug MacInnes, John Enser, Stephen Francis & Prof. Tony Lavender)
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2010-2011
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KT Fund
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£1,000
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Knowledge transfer related CPD.
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2010
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CCCU: Small Research Grant
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£2,020
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Further investigations and modelling of human learning. (Principle Investigator.)
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2010
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ESRC
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£80,678
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Dual process models of sequence learning and serial reaction time tasks; RES-000-22-4036. (Co-investigator; P.I.: Prof Ian McLaren, University of Exeter)
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2011
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CCCU: Small Research Grant
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£3,776
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Memory and human fear conditioning. Principle Investigator. (Collaborator: Prof. Ian McLaren, University of Exeter)
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2011
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CCCU: Small Research Grant
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£612
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Building local capacity to run experimental psychology projects
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2011
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Cognitive Psychology Publications
Beesley, T., Jones, F.W., & Shanks, D.R.(in press). Out of control: An associative account of congruency effects in sequence learning. Consciousness and Cognition.
Jones, F.W. & McLaren, I.P.L.(2009). Human Sequence Learning Under Incidental and Intentional Conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35, 538-53.
Jones, F.W., Le Pelley, M.E., & McLaren, I.P.L.(2002). The APECS-SRN: Towards a model of SRT sequence learning. Proceedings of the 2002 international joint conference on neural networks, 692-696.
Spiegel, R., Jones, F.W., & McLaren, I.P.L.(2001). The prediction-irrelevance problem in grammar learning. Proceedings of the international joint INNS/IEEE conference on neural networks, vol. 1, 314-319.
Jones, F.W., & McLaren, I.P.L.(2001). Modelling the detailed pattern of SRT sequence learning. Proceedings of the twenty-third annual conference of the cognitive science society, 465-470
Jones, F.W., & McLaren, I.P.L.(1999). Rules and associations. Proceedings of the twenty-first annual conference of the cognitive science society, 240-245
Jones, F.W., Wills, A.J., & McLaren, I.P.L.(1998). Perceptual categorisation: connectionist modelling and decision rules. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51B. 33-58.
Clinical Psychology Publications
Langdon, S., Jones, F.W., & Hutton, J.(2011). A grounded-theory study of mindfulness practice following mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. Mindfulness, 2, 270–281.
Pipon-Young, F., Lee, K., Jones, F. & Guss, R.(in press). I'm not all gone, I can still speak. The Experiences of Younger People with Dementia: An action research study. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice.
Binks, C., Jones, F, W., & Camic, P.(2009). Referrers' views of a psychological therapies service. Clinical Psychology Forum, 200, 18-23.
Jones, F., Carraretto, K., & Deacon, L.(2008). Client discontinuation of NHS psychological therapy revisited. Clinical Psychology Forum, 182, 9-12
Jones, F.W., Long, K., & Finlay, W.M.L.(2007). Symbols can improve the reading comprehension of adults with learning disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 51, 545-550
Jones, F.W., Long, K., & Finlay, W.M.L.(2006). Assessing the reading comprehension of adults with learning disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 50, 410-418.
Tulett, F., Jones, F., & Lavender, T.(2006). Service practitioner and referrer perspectives of a primary care based mental health consultation service. Clinical Psychology Forum, 166, 19-23.
Book Chapters
Jones, F.W.(2011). Clinical psychology training and development. In G. Davey (Ed.), Introduction to applied psychology. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Jones, F.W. (2008). What is clinical psychology? Training and practice. In G. Davey (Ed.), Clinical psychology: An undergraduate course. London: Hodder Education.