Dr Peter Lawrence PhD, DClinPsych, MSc, MA (Cantab), CPsychol, AFBPsS, FHEA
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology
I am a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Southampton and Research Director for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme.
I am a clinical psychologist and a scientist conducting research in young people’s development in adversity, and translating this into interventions to enhance young people’s development and support their families. In 2020, I was awarded first prize in the Springer Nature / ABTA National Doctoral Research Awards (Social Sciences), and the Dean’s prize for outstanding early career research in the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Southampton. (Please see the ‘Research’ tab below for more information about my work.)
I am chartered by the British Psychological Society (CPsychol); registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner psychologist; and accredited as a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies.
I am a member of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH), and am a member of the Southern Branch committee.
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Appointments:
2014 – Present Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Southampton
2015 – 2018 NIHR Research Training Fellow, University of Reading
2010 – 2014 Psychological Therapist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.
2009 – 2010 Locum Clinical Psychologist, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
2006 – 2009 Trainee Clinical Psychologist, Oxford Doctoral Course in Clinical Psychology, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
2005 – 2006 Assistant Psychologist, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
2003 – 2004 Assistant Psychologist, Social Work with Abused and Abusive Youth (SWAAY), Berkshire.
Academic:
2015 – 2020 PhD, Anxiety and Depression in Young People Clinical Research Unit, University of Reading
2006 – 2009 D.Clin.Psych, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford.
2004 – 2005 MSc, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.
2000 – 2003 BA (Hons), Downing College, University of Cambridge