Dale Bartle

Senior Lecturer

Dr Dale Bartle is Senior Lecturer within the Professional Doctorate in Child, Community and Educational Psychology at the Tavistock and Portman. He is also Co-director of the Professional Doctorate in Educational Psychology at Cardiff University. 

Currently Dale has a varied teaching portfolio, which includes contributing to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes primarily focusing on group psychology and qualitative research methodology. He is particularly interested in psychoanalytic approaches to applied psychology and research. 

Dale has developed a group process, the Reverie Group, which is used to support leaders, researchers and academic staff in exploring the unconscious. He is also involved in working across disciplines and continents, collaborating with others to develop praxis in psycho-social methodology. 

 

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Child and Educational Psychology (D.Ed.Ch. Psych) – Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex
• MSc in Educational Psychology – Institute of Education
• Postgraduate Certificate in Education – UEL
• BSc in Psychology – Goldsmiths, University of London

 

Teaching roles

• Research Module (Child, community and educational psychology) 
• Experiential Group consultant 
• Professional doctorate supervisor / examiner

 

Research interests

• Psycho-social studies
• Social Defences
• Group processes  

 

Current research projects

• Empirical study of Reverie Groups
• Developing psychoanalytic approaches to data analysis

 

Recent research projects

• Co-editing and contributing to a collection of psychoanalytic case-studies in education
• Developing psycho-social approaches to research supervision 

 

Selected publications

Bartle, D. (2015). Deception and delusion: The relational aspect of supervision explored through Greek mythology. Educational & Child Psychology 32(3), 41-51.

Bartle, D. & Trevis, A. (2015). An evaluation of group supervision in a specialist provision supporting young people with mental health needs: A social constructionist perspective. Educational & Child Psychology 32(3), 78-90.

Co-editor, Arnold, C., Bartle, D., & Eloquin, X (Eds), Learning from the unconscious: Psychoanalytic approaches in educational psychology. Karnac.

Bartle, D., & Eloquin, X. (2021). Psychoanalysis and educational psychology: Context, theory and challenges. In Arnold, C., Bartle, D., & Eloquin, X (Eds), Learning from the unconscious: Psychoanalytic approaches in educational psychology (pp3-33). Karnac. 

Bartle, D., & Eloquin, X. (2021). The classroom-in-the-mind: Psychoanalytic reflections on classroom practice. In Arnold, C., Bartle, D., & Eloquin, X. (Eds), Learning from the unconscious: Psychoanalytic approaches in educational psychology (pp77-93). Karnac.

Bartle, D. (2021). Reverie groups: Space, free association and the recovery of thought. In Arnold, C., Bartle, D., & Eloquin, X. (Eds), Learning from the unconscious: Psychoanalytic approaches in educational psychology (pp197-212). Karnac.

Bartle, D., & Eloquin, X. (2021). Social defenses: managing the anxiety of work. In Arnold, C., Bartle, D., & Eloquin, X. (Eds), Learning from the unconscious: Psychoanalytic approaches in educational psychology (pp256-277-33). Karnac.

Co-editor & Contributing author (in-press). Arnold, C., Bartle, D., & Eloquin, X (Eds), Learning Beyond Reason: psychodynamic case studies in education. Karnac.

 

Expert advisory roles

• Group Relations Committee member (Tavistock)
• Reviewer for Journal of Social Work Practice
• Ethics Committee member (Cardiff University)