Katy Cole

Senior Lecturer

Dr Katy Cole is a Senior Lecturer on the Professional Doctorate in Child, Community and Educational Psychology with responsibility for the child development, assessment and intervention module. She has worked as an educational psychologist (EP) for 19 years and runs her own practice providing assessment, consultation and training to schools. Katy is an advocate for working at systems levels to effect change and has contributed to countywide initiatives. Her research supervision interests have been for topics exploring educational and professional experiences of marginalised groups, the outcomes of which continue to inform her practice.

 

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Child and Educational Psychology (D.Ed.Ch. Psych) – Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex
• MSc Educational Psychology– University College London
• PGCE Primary– Institute of Education 
• BSc (Hons) Psychology 

 

Memberships of professional bodies

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) 
• Registered Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Chartered Psychologist – British Psychological Society (BPS)

 

Teaching roles

Child Development, Assessment, and Intervention (CHAI) Module Lead

 

Research interests

• Experience of neurodivergent HE students 
• Influence of supervision for school staff 

 

Current research projects

Supervision of TEP doctoral research: 

• Emancipatory exploration of children and young people’s disability experiences – IPA study
• The Experiences of Male Educational Psychologists When in Role – Focus groups/RTA 
• School staff’s experiences of working with trans-spectrum young people: a psychosocial approach 

 

Recent research projects

Supervised the following theses:

• An exploration of Black Boys’ Experiences of Exclusion From School
• Racial identity, Context and Practice: An IPA study exploring the experiences of Black Educational Psychologists in the UK. 
• Parents’ views on children’s sleep difficulties and their approach to help seeking: An exploratory study.

 

Selected publications

Cole, K. (2018) ‘It’s just an awful topic’: A psychosocial exploration of how educational psychologists encounter and respond to domestic abuse in their work. Professional Doctorate thesis, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust / University of Essex

Somerville, R., Ayre, K., Tunbridge, D., Cole, K., Stollery, R. & Sanders, M. (2015) Firm foundations: the effectiveness of an educational psychologist developed intervention targeting early numeracy skills. Educational Psychology in Practice, 31, 265-278. 

Schlottmann, A., Cole, K., Watts, R., & White, M. (2013). Domain-specific perceptual causality in children depends on the spatio-temporal configuration, not motion onset. Frontiers in Psychology, 4.