Dr Danielle Drinkwater

I am a Clinical Psychologist and Canterbury Christchurch University alumni, having completed my doctoral training at the Salomon's Centre for Applied Psychology in 2017. I joined the staff team in 2024 as a Clinical and Academic Tutor, a role that I carry out alongside my clinical work with children and families. I am registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

As a Clinical and Academic Tutor I am responsible, as part of a team, for supporting Trainee Clinical Psychologists on their training journey, including supervising a number of major research projects, delivering teaching sessions and coordinating a teaching unit.

At CCCU, I teach on both the clinical psychology doctoral programme (DClinPsy) and the MSc programme, on subjects including critical and community psychology, working clinically across class divides, working with children, young people and families, and biological and behavioural approaches. I coordinate two teaching units for the DClinPsy- critical and community psychology and psychology and society.

My research interests include using qualitative methods to understand how people experience and make sense of mental health difficulties and/or neurodiversity related differences and difficulties, how people navigate services and their recovery journeys, and what clinicians experience in their clinical practice.

Drinkwater, D., Holttum, S., Lavender, T., Startup, H., & Oldershaw, A. (2022). Seeing Through the Façade of Anorexia: A Grounded Theory of Emotional Change Processes Associated With Recovery From Anorexia Nervosa. Front Psychiatry.13, 1-12. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.868586.