David has worked as a member of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme team at QUB since 2003, and has held a number of senior leadership roles including Academic Director, Clinical Director, and his current role of Programme Director.  David has worked as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Addiction Services in the Northern HSC Trust since 2003.  Clinically his areas of interest include working with individuals who have a history of trauma or co-morbid difficulties.   Through his work with complex clinical populations he has developed extensive experience in consultancy and supervision. 

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Olwyn is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Director for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. She is also Training Director of a schema therapy certification training programme. Olwyn is currently a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the Northern HSC Trust Psychological Therapies Service, was previously lead clinician and service manager of the Northern HSC Trust Acute Mental Health Psychology Service and has also worked as a senior clinician in Eating Disorders. Her research interests include psychological interventions for complex mental health difficulties, and client and staff experiences of mental health services. Within this, specific areas of interest include eating disorders and schema therapy.

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Kevin is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Academic Director for the Doctorate programme. He has held a number of lead clinician positions, including Head of Adult Mental Health in the Northern HSC Trust and Psychology Lead of the Northern Ireland Regional Trauma Network. His research interests include (1) Complex Trauma phenomenology, theory, and treatment; (2) the role of “Troubles”-related trauma in mental health issues of the Northern Ireland population; (3) psychological therapy outcomes; and (4) innovative interventions for PTSD and OCD (e.g., phase-oriented therapy, virtual reality paradigms).

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My primary research interest is mental health including the measurement and modelling of psychological trauma, psychosis and related constructs. I am a Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and Fellow for the Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation. I have expertise in research design, methodology and analysis of mental health with over 50 peer-reviewed publications and presentations. I have published a bestselling statistics text book and more recent research methods text book.

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David is a Lecturer (Education) in Clinical Psychology. From November 2021 to October 2024, he served as the Clinical Director for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme. Whilst still involved on the academic side of the programme, he is currently the Joint Course Director for the Postgraduate Certificate, Foundations in Clinical Psychology. His research includes clinical child and family psychology, with a particular interest in psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress symptoms in children and parents.

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Kelly is a registered Clinical Psychologist and a Clinical Teaching Fellow on the Doctorate programme. Her clinical area of focus is providing psychological therapies to adults in the community experiencing difficulties with low mood, anxiety, relational patterns and complex trauma. Kelly has previously worked as a psychologist in respiratory and stroke settings and has an interest in the application of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) across adult clinical health, neuro-rehabilitation and mental health settings.

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Sharon is a registered Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Teaching Fellow on the Doctorate programme. She is interested in working therapeutically with children and young people who have physical health conditions, as well as with both children and adults who have been diagnosed with an ID. She is particularly interested in psychological adjustment, the experiences of parents and of parenting children with physical health / ID diagnoses, the impact of medical trauma on children and their families and in the experience of trauma in an ID population. 

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Jenny is a registered Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer (Education) in Clinical Psychology. Her clinical area of focus is within paediatric psychology and neurodevelopmental services (including Autism Spectrum Conditions and ADHD), working with children and young people, and their families or carers, who are experiencing difficulty with a physical health condition and / or a neurodevelopmental condition. She is particularly interested in examining aspects of physical health and neurodevelopment, primarily in children and young people but also in adults and in exploring the impact of physical health and / or neurodevelopmental diagnoses on families and family functioning

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Annie is registered Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Teaching Fellow on the Doctorate programme. Her clinical area of focus is in the Psychology of Older People Services which encompasses the provision of psychological assessment and intervention services to older adults with mental health difficulties, and people with a diagnosis of dementia. She is particularly interested in the use of Compassion Focused Therapy in supporting older adults and their caregivers and embedding the use of non-pharmacological interventions in response to behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

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