Jerry Burgess

Dr Jerry Burgess

Director of Clinical Neuropsychology Programmes

School of Psychology and Life Sciences

Jerry has 7 years of NHS service in clinical neuropsychology departments, and 9 years as an academic on postgraduate applied psychology courses.

His related education and employment included first, entry level, working in state-funded mental health services in Virginia USA (which included child/family, learning disability, and adult addictions and mental health) as a licensed mental health counsellor. He later earned a doctorate in combined-integrated clinical, counselling, and school psychology in 2004 from James Madison University, with neuropsychology related practicum placements in the USA and UK.

He took up a post in the Clinical Neuropsychology Department at Leicester General Hospital working with people with acquired brain injuries, then the Royal Free Hospital Hampstead working with people with long-term neurological conditions. Since 2011 he has held posts on DClinPsy courses at the University of Leicester, and this current post at Canterbury Christ University, in which he is neuropsychology lead, and Programme Director of an online programme development, postgraduate diploma in clinical neuropsychology. His scholarship and research focus on psychometric testing and amnesia. He is the author of the Short Parallel Assessments of Neuropsychological Status (SPANS).

Jerry serves on the British Psychological Society (BPS) committees: a) Committee for Training of Clinical Neuropsychologists (CTCN), and b) Committee for Test Standards (CTS). He is a guest reviewer for the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Disability and Rehabilition, and Social Care and Neurodisability.