Default head and shoulder profile picture

Dr Alan Bainbridge

External Examiner (PGR)

Quality Assurance and Enhancement

Alan Bainbridge is a Chartered Psychologist, Doctor of Clinical Science and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and began working in Higher Education in 2001 having previously taught in secondary schools for 18 years. He is interested in the contested space between psychoanalytic thought and practices to education in its widest sense. He has written on how educational professionals develop their professional practice, the nature of academic understanding and is currently exploring the fetish in education and how learning and the ‘natural world’ are interconnected. Alan has recently used narrative and biographical techniques to research the motivators and barriers towards a community engagement project and the attitude of individuals towards the re-introduction of native wild carnivores. He uses his experience as a UKCP registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist to inform his research and as such works qualitatively to seek to provide opportunities and spaces where participants can provide rich contextual data of their life experiences. He coordinates the Auto/biography and Narrative Research and Knowledge Exchange Theme Group for the Faculty of Education and is a co-coordinator of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults Life History and Biography Network.

Current projects

  • Erasmus+ 2 Year project ‘Curricular Reform For Democratic Principles and Civic Education (CURE) in Teacher-Training Programs in Israel and in Georgia – Evaluation partner. £49,425
  • Supervision: A business and community service for colleagues in schools project– Canterbury Diocese funded. . Currently looking at expanding this alongside the development of a Certificate in Supervision to increase capacity,
  • Understanding attitudes towards native wildlife and biodiversity in the UK: the role of zoos. Inter-disciplinary CCCU group already received Futures Initiative Funding.

Previous Projects

  • Academic supervisor. Evaluation of Kent Safe Schools Programme. Knowledge Transfer Partnership. (£120,000). Completed 2011 and graded ‘Outstanding’.
  • CCCU Research Intern: Exploring the motivators and Inhibitors of a community sustainability action project. Completed 2014. Intern then appointed as KTP Associate and soon to submit PhD.
  • CCCU Research Intern: Evaluation of Forest Schools in Thanet.
  • Using biography with ‘new professionals in educational settings’ to provide insight into the psychodynamic aspects of teaching and learning relationships. Funded- CCCU (£800). Completed 2008
  • Exploring the use of an on-line environment to develop the learning biographies of mature students on a foundation degree programme. ESCalate Small Grant (£5000). Completed 2006.

Research Projects

  • Attitudes towards the reintroduction of the chough to Kent, for the Kent Wildlife Trust. Researcher(s): Dr Anke Franz, Dr Adriana Consorte-McCrea, Dr Alan Bainbridge. [Project]

Research Supervisor

  • Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mrs Julie Speers. Supervisor(s): Dr Sue Soan, Dr Judy Durrant, Dr Alan Bainbridge. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
  • ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN TEACHERS’ PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLE OF SIGNIFICANT OTHERS. AN AUTO/BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY.. Researcher(s): Dr Cristina Amaximoaie. Supervisor(s): Dr Alan Bainbridge, Professor Trevor Cooling. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • Selective Mutism. Researcher(s): Mrs Katie Gwyther. Supervisor(s): Dr Alan Bainbridge, Dr Sue Soan. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
  • SHOULD HIGHER EDUCATION BE LEARNING MORE FROM THE EXPERIENCES OF THEIR HIGH-ACHIEVING WORKING-CLASS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS?. Researcher(s): Miss Chanai Warren. Supervisor(s): Dr Alan Bainbridge. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • SOCITAL PERCEPTIONS OF THE WHITE WORKING CLASS MALE AND FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR ACADEMIC SUCCESS. Researcher(s): Mr DARREN ANSLOW. Supervisor(s): Mr Ian Jasper, Dr Alan Bainbridge. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • THE EDUCATION OF A STAY-AT-HOME DAD AND HIS CHILDREN: REFLECTIONS ON 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCES DOCUMENTED IN A DIARY AND INTERPRETED FOR EVIDENCE OF EDUCATIONAL WISDOM. Researcher(s): Mr Tom Troppe. Supervisor(s): Reverend Dr Jeremy Law, Dr Alan Bainbridge. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • THE EXPERIENCES OF WORKING-CLASS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: TO WHAT EXTENT DOES SOCIAL CLASS STILL NEGATIVELY IMPACT ON STUDENTS EXPERIENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION?. Researcher(s): Miss Rebecca Clark. Supervisor(s): Dr Alan Bainbridge. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • The extent to which early years practitioners act as ‘substitute mothers’, what ‘professional love’ means to them and how mothers of the children they care for feel about this.. Researcher(s): Mrs Emily Dawson. Supervisor(s): Dr Paula Stone, Dr Alan Bainbridge. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
  • The stories of science: teachers’ confidence in primary science teaching. Researcher(s): Dr Hellen Remnant. Supervisor(s): Dr Alan Bainbridge, Professor Linden West. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
  • What Can a Holistic Perspective Contribute to our Understanding of the Influential Relations Between Young Children, Adults and Natural Environments?. Researcher(s): Dr Tansy Watts. Supervisor(s): Dr Nicola Kemp, Dr Alan Bainbridge. [Postgraduate Research Project]

British Psychological Society

  • Chartered member – Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers in Psychology
  • Section member – Psychology of Education, and Psychotherapy

European Society for Research on the Education of Adults

  • Co-coordinator of the Life History and Biography Network

Higher Education Academy

  • Senior Fellow (January 2014)

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

  • Member
People search

Contact me

alan.bainbridge@canterbury.ac.uk
Fisher (F3.04), Canterbury