COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2011 - 2012
Chair: Jacqueline Rappoport
Hon Treasurer: Vacant
Hon Secretary: Konstantina Tsalavouta
Committee Members: Kate Sherratt, Anna Nurzynska, A.Violetta Barzankian-Kaydan, Karen Powell-Williams, Jane Butler, Alan Heath, Fiona Essig, Runi Sayeed, Zuzana Simkova, Jason Shonibare, Louise Marshall and Miles Thomas.
About the Committee:
Jacqueline Rappoport
Jacky Rapport, MSc, MPA, HS-BCP has been working for various forensic and human services organisations over the last twelve years. Jacky currently provides training to professionals around Esafety and Child Protection Online, along with presenting at various conferences around technology and its' implications for professionals in psychology. She is currently a Psych'D student in Counselling Psychology in London. She has been an active member of the London and Home Counties Branch since 2010 and over the last two years has been involved with various voluntary organisations working with trauma victims and victims of sexual abuse. Jacky is interested in looking at how professionals can effectively work with offenders with military experience; international policies relating to access to mental health services and women in psychology.
Kate Sherratt
Kate studied history at UCL and worked in the media, before converting to psychology through a Postgraduate Conversion Diploma at the University of Westminster. She is currently a Trainee Clinical Psychologist at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Anna Nurzynska
Co-opted member
BSc Psychology (Hons), MSc Occupational Psychology
Graduate member of the BPS
Area of Psychology: Occupational Psychology, member of the DOP
Research interests: Wellbeing and Work
Current employment: PhD researcher and part-time lecturer at London Metropolitan University.
Alan Heath
BA Hons, MSc, PhD. Associate Fellow of the BPS. Chartered Psychologist. Area of Psychology: Early Childhood; Parenting; Preventative/Early interventions.
Currently in independent practice and previously a Consultant Child Psychologist with Lanbeth PCT NHS.
Dr Miles Thomas
Dr Miles Thomas is a Registered Educational Psychologist employed by the London Borough of Havering. Miles is also seconded to the University of East London for three days per week as a tutor on the Doctorate in Child and Educational Psychology. He is Head of years 2 and 3 of the Doctorate and leads a module on consultation, intervention and therapeutic provision. His research areas include solution focused brief therapy and goal attainment scaling. Miles is an external examiner for the University of Bristol, Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is an Associate Editor of the Psychologist Magazine and member of the Psychologist Policy Committee. He runs a website on psychology and wine www.winepsych.com in his spare time and is writing a book for Wiley on the topic. He is a keen tennis player and golfer too!
A.Violetta Barzankian-Kaydan
BSc (Hons) Pysch (Open), MSc (Psych) Open, MA (Psych of Religion) Heythrop College)
Violetta is a member of the BPS Register of Competence in Psychometric Testing Levels A & B. She is an independent Consultant in Psychometric Testing. She is a graduate member of the BPS and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. She is also involved in voluntary work for the Primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the UK and Ireland. Violetta is an ordinary BPS London & Home Counties Branch Committee member responsible for the London Lectures, member of the CPD Committee and chaired Workshop sessions at the Psychology for All Day.
Violetta has recently collaborated in a world-wide research on Trauma and Forgiveness. Has presented a paper on Forgiveness in the Face of Denial, as in the case of the Armenian Genocide and to some degree the Jewish Holocaust to her peers, then to the Annual Congress at the International Association for the Psychology of Religion in Vienna, in August 2009, and at the BPS Postgraduates Symposium in 2010. She has been invited to present her paper on Forgiveness in the Face of Denial at a forthcoming event later this year.
Fiona Essig
BSc Hons (Cog Sci), MSc, BPS Graduate member.
Currently completing a PhD in cognitive Psychology; member of the Cognitive Section and the Division for Teachers and Researchers in Psychology (DTRP).
PhD is focused on the source of processing costs in multitasking, specifically language and media multitasking. Currently employed as an assoiate lecturer
with the The Open University, teaching cognitive psychology and as a teaching assistant (research methods) at the University of Hertfordshire.
Dr Zahirun (Runi) Nessa Sayeed
After working with local authorities for many years, has been in independent practice since 2000 providing psychological assessments, interventions and training for individuals, families, professionals and institutions in the UK and abroad.
Jason Shonibare
BSc (Hons) UEL 2008.
Employment: Camden Crisis House - Project worker (from Nov 2009). Responsible for multi-agency provision of therapy and support for people with mental health needs in a crisis setting, providing a service under a 24hr, 365 day, provision plan.
Previous work; Lambo Afro-Caribbean Resource Centre - Resource worker; The Traumatic Stress Clinic - Assistant Clinical Psychologist.
Current voluntary experience: Kids Company as a general volunteer for Treehouse After School Club, including activities such as art and cooking; Senior Cyber Mentor at Beatbullying engaging children online and supporting them, with onward referral for therapeutic intervention if required.
Committee member, London and Home Counties branch of the BPS, with responsibility for research talks.
Dr Louise Marshall
Louise went to the renowned The Coopers' Company and Coborn school in the London Borough of Havering. She went on to attend Coventry University to study Psychology and graduated in 2002. Following university she worked as an Education Welfare Officer in local government. She went on to specialise in supporting children and young people excluded from school and helped to reintegrate them back in to mainstream education. Louise secured a funded place on the Professional Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology at University College London (UCL) in 2007 and completed her Doctorate in 2010. She is a Research Associate at UCL and is in the process of publishing research which explores the perceptions of young women excluded from mainstream school. She is also part of the Researchers in Residence initiative which encourages school children to engage with science. She currently works as an Educational Psychologist with Southend on Sea Borough Council and delivers psychological services to schools and families.
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