Staff Profile
Katrina Heath
I have been at Buckinghamshire New University since 2011; starting as a student on the PGDip Psychology course. I then became a Guest Lecturer, Associate Lecturer and then a full-time member of the Psychology team in 2022. I am Course Leader for the BSc in Forensic Psychology and provide support and art therapy lectures for the MSc Applied Forensic Psychology.
Before joining Buckinghamshire New University as a guest lecturer in 2016, I worked in Market Research for many years, using qualitative and quantitative research methods. I studied for my BA (Hons) in Ceramics at West Surrey College of Art and Design, returning to education later to complete a PGDip in Psychology at BNU and a PGDip in Forensic Psychology and Crime at Coventry University. My specialist areas of interest/research are Art Therapy, Substance Misuse, Stalking and Genocide. My specialist area of research for my PGDip focused on the psychology of experiential therapies within substance misuse treatment. I am now a PhD candidate at BNU studying victims of stalking, stalking programmes, and cyberstalking offenders with local victim charity, Aurora New Dawn.
My specialist knowledge has led me to work with the Oasis Partnership delivering art therapy to substance misusers and acquired brain injury clients.
My greatest accolades to date are presenting my own research at the Division of Forensic Psychology annual conference in Brighton, taking my dissertation students' research to conferences nationally and internationally, and collaborating on a book chapter about Art Therapy.
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