Our Clinical Psychology trainees are involved in a range of research projects. Find out more about the specialist research our trainees have been undertaking.

An exploration into the role of developmental timing of adverse childhood experiences in psychotic-like experiences in adulthood
An exploration of kinship carers' experience and stories
An exploration of the experiences of children and young people with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
An initial evaluation of an online, compassionate intervention for adults with type 1 and type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
An investigation into shame in forensic services
An investigation into the complex world of aversive fantasies
Caring for individuals with a brain tumour
Critical incidents: prevention and post-vention
Cross-cultural supervision with trainees from international backgrounds
Double disparity: cancer in ethnically minoritised young people
Eating disorder prevention programmes in schools
Established and new: a systematic review of an emerging transdiagnostic treatment and an exploration of change processes in an established treatment.
Experiences of intensive treatment settings for people with eating disorders
Exploration of views about mental health in Gypsy, Traveller, Roma and Showmen communities
Exploring beliefs, narratives, and understandings of psychosis: insights from literature and staff stories utilising the power threat meaning framework
Exploring experiences of drug use and chemsex among men who have sex with men
Exploring experiences of frontline staff working in the children and young people's secure estate
Exploring experiences of online group cognitive behavioural therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder
Exploring experiences of parents of individuals with an eating disorder
Exploring men's qualitative accounts of psychological therapy in forensic hospitals.
Exploring older adults' and their support system's perspectives of functional mental health difficulties in later life and the potential role of systematic family therapy (SFT) in (re-)constructing these narratives
Exploring stereotyping and health outcomes in black women with sickle cell disease
Exploring stories of autistic adolescents
Exploring the lived experience experiences of coming out as transgender
Exploring trauma and trauma-informed practice from a social constructionist perspective
Exploring women's experiences of menopause
Group therapy for overweight individuals
Illness perceptions, coping and psychological outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease
Older parent carers' stories about their adult children with intellectual disabilities leaving home
Psychological aspects of inflammatory bowel disease
Psychological wellbeing and cognition in narcolepsy
Rehabilitation from an acquired brain injury in changing contexts
Seeing beyond the headlines: an exploration into the media's narratives and personal narratives for people who are ethnically minoritised in British society
Self-disclosure and disordered eating in inflammatory bowl disease (IBD)
Shame in forensic populations
Socio-demographic factors and their role in the experience of living with HIV
Survivors of trauma: exploring staff experiences working in intellectual disability settings
Targeting the experience of the anorexic voice in psychological therapy with people with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa
The assessment and treatment of 'cold' executive functioning impairments
The effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions
The lived experience of adolescents and youth with brain injury: navigating new landscapes
The transition to adulthood for autistic young people
Through the lens of attachment: experiences of trauma and psychosis
Transgender childhoods: the experiences of transgender and/or gender diverse young people and their families
Understanding the interpersonal experiences of people with maladaptive daydreaming
Understanding well-being and help-seeking among doctors of the global majority
Working together around the needs of children looked after: the views of care leavers, parents and professionals
A qualitative exploration of the experiences of the hospital discharge process, via the transforming care agenda
Adolescent wellbeing and social media use
An exploration of executive function, its theoretical construction, and challenges encountered in its understanding and measurement: did neuropsychology get this right?
An exploration of experiences of self-compassion in autistic women
An exploration of nature-based therapy for children with long term health conditions and associated psychological difficulties
An investigation in to different factors related to problematic smartphone use
An investigation into pre-sleep cognitive arousal
An investigation into trauma-informed care within mental health inpatient settings
Becoming a mother in 2020
Beyond everyday care:exploring the experience of foster carers in holding the stories and relationships of the children in their care
Black people’s experiences of therapy
Care delivery in the current NHS context
Deaf children's mental health difficulties: exploring experience and factors associated with the difficulties experienced by deaf children
Developing a trauma-informed model of suicide risk management
Establishing global eligibility criteria for a diagnosis of autism in a sporting context: availability of assessments and views of an expert panel
Examining the fabric of mindful parenting and mindfulness-based parenting interventions
Experiences of parenting amongst people with intellectual disabilities in the UK
Exploring abstinence, recovery, identity and personhood in individuals engaging with addiction services
Exploring conservations about voice-hearing
Exploring cultural adaptations and the cultural fit of trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy
Exploring domestic violence and mental health
Exploring experiences of externalising and the anorexic voice
Exploring narratives of young LGBTQ+ people in physical health services
Exploring psychological wellbeing and quality of life in young people with narcolepsy
Exploring the link between trauma and psychosis from a power, threat, meaning framework perspective
Exploring the relationships between self-criticism and perfectionism with diabetes-related distress and management in a type 1 diabetes population
Exploring why people decline cancer treatment: perspectives from patients and psychologists
Exploring women's experiences of seeking help for mental health difficulties in the perinatal period
Family experiences of approaches for psychosis that include the family
Functional neurological disorder: exploration into diagnosis, beliefs and experiences
Investigating turning points and facilitating eating disorder recovery
Investigation into olfactory memory in unique amnesia
Investigation into participation in dance groups for adults with learning disabilities
Measuring compassion in young people
Microaggressions in neurorehabilitation
Motivation-enhancing interventions for people with eating disorders
Psychosis, families, and open dialogue
Queer women and minority stress
Shame and taboo in obsessive-compulsive disorder: implications for the cognitive-behavioural therapies
The acceptability of trauma-focused interventions
The experiences of women with intellectual disabilities around sex and intimacy: a thematic synthesis
Understanding professionals' experiences of endings
Understanding self-criticism from personal and professional perspectives
Unexplained profound anterograde amnesia
Working therapeutically by video call with couples, families and groups: a different world
“You can’t put the genie back in the bottle”: psychologists’ decisions around sharing lived experience of mental health difficulties at work

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