Caoimhe McBay

Educational Psychologist

Dr Caoimhe McBay is a Personal and Academic Tutor for our Doctorate course in Child, community and educational psychology (M4).

Caoimhe trained and worked as a primary school teacher before completing a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in 2000. Caoimhe has worked as an educational psychologist in four different London Boroughs over the last 20 years and is currently working as a senior educational psychologist in an inner London Borough. She has an interest in working with young people who have been excluded from education and completed her doctoral research on the narrative identities and life stories of young adults who attended Alternative Provision.

Caoimhe values and enjoys being involved in the training and development of educational psychologists. She has an interest in researching supervision and has extensive experience of supervising trainees, educational psychologists, and school professionals. Caoimhe is a facilitator for the Trust’s British Psychological Society-accredited short course Supervision in schools and community contexts: working relationally and reflectively (CPD32).