Personal statement
I joined University of Strathclyde as a Teaching Associate in September 2018. Before joining Strathclyde, I worked as an Associate Lecturer for the Department of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London, an Associate Academic in Psychology for The University of Derby Online Learning, and a Graduate Teaching Assistant for The University of Sheffield. I also worked as a part-time tutor at Sheffield Confucius Institute and Lifelong Learning, Skills & Communities in Sheffield City Council, teaching Taichi and Chinese calligraphy with a particular focus on promoting mental health well-being. Before coming to the UK, I was a certificated psychological counsellor in China and worked as a psychological teacher in a local primary school. Since 2011, I have written short stories for several Chinese children and teenager magazines and my first children’s book has been published in 2016.
Qualifications
Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society
Registered Member, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Counsellor Member, Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland
Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Primary School Teacher (Chinese), Ministry of Education (China)
Teaching
I teach on BA Psychology, BSc Psychology and Counselling, and MSc Psychology with a specialistion in Business (conversion) programmes. I contribute to the following classes:
B9201 Positive & Humanistic Psychology (Class Leader)
C8305 Development (Class Leader)
C8981 & C8923 Social & Developmental Psychology (Class Leader)
B9200 Introduction to Mental Health Difficulties
B9202 Theories of Counselling and Psychotherapy
C8983 Empirical Project
C8203 Introduction to Research Design and Analysis
C8307 Social Psychology
C8321 Research Methods and Data Analyses
C8426 & C8427 Psychology Dissertation
Professional activities
- Educational and Child Psychology (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2017
- iHuman Research Institute for the Study of the Human, The University of Sheffield (External organisation)
- Member
- 2017
- Centre of Critical Psychology and Education, The University of Sheffield (External organisation)
- Member
- 2015
More professional activities
Projects
- Exploring Chinese international students’ understanding of loneliness to inform cultural adaptation of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)
- Liu, Xi (Principal Investigator) Anderson, Tony (Co-investigator) Cogan, Nicola (Co-investigator) Kelly, Stephen (Co-investigator) Rasmussen, Susan (Co-investigator) Tse, Dwight (Co-investigator)
- 31-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022
- The understandings of distinctive experiences of mental health, disclosure and help seeking among Asian students (SMARTeN)
- Cogan, Nicola (Principal Investigator) Anderson, Tony (Co-investigator) Kelly, Stephen (Co-investigator) Liu, Xi (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
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