Zahra Ahmed

Alumna and visiting lecturer

Zahra Ahmed is an alumna and visiting lecturer on our doctoral training programme in Child, community and educational psychology (M4) . She teaches on the Psychological Frameworks and Child Assessment and Intervention/Child Development modules in the first and second years of the programme. She has published work on projective techniques in assessment, as well as culturally responsive practice in consultation. Zahra also works as an Educational Psychologist in an inner London borough and a local Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) team. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the experiences of racism in secondary schools, influenced by her drive to promote anti-racist and culturally responsive practice throughout her work with children and families, schools and the systems they interact with.