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Katy Wakelin
Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences
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Biography
Katy is an academic and UKCP registered Psychotherapist and supervisor who works in private practice as well as teaching on the BA in Education and the MA in Education in the School of Education. Her interests include how to assess the effectiveness of therapy, authenticity in the clinical process and shame in higher education settings.
She is currently teaching difference and diversity and understanding counselling in education for the BA Education students and research methods for the MA Education students.
Expertise Summary
Humanistic approaches to therapy, shame and learning.
Teaching Summary
Understanding and planning Educational research on the MA Education
Counselling in Education: difference and diversity and Understanding Counselling in Education to BA Education Students.
Research Summary
The experience of university students with shame in higher education settings, both undergraduate and post-graduate students. This is on-going research considering both the student experience and how… read more
Recent Publications
KATY WAKELIN, 2023. It's OK, You're just learning. In: TINA BYROM and JACKIE CAWKWELL, eds., The Teaching and Learning Challenges of 21st-Century Higher Education: Prioritising Pedagogy Cambridge Scholars. 113-122
RACHEL MURPHY, BELINDA HARRIS and KATHARINE WAKELIN, 2022. Riding a rollercoaster in a hurricane: Researching my own chronic illness Qualitative Research Journal. 22(2), 248-260 KATY WAKELIN, 2021. Authentic muddle: Revisiting authenticity in psychotherapy British Gestalt Journal. 30(2), 12-20
Current Research
The experience of university students with shame in higher education settings, both undergraduate and post-graduate students. This is on-going research considering both the student experience and how to create a low-shame learning environment for students.
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Past Research
Efficacy of Gestalt therapy using CORE approach.
Future Research
A feminist critique of the concept of autonomy in humanistic therapies.
KATY WAKELIN, 2023. It's OK, You're just learning. In: TINA BYROM and JACKIE CAWKWELL, eds., The Teaching and Learning Challenges of 21st-Century Higher Education: Prioritising Pedagogy Cambridge Scholars. 113-122
RACHEL MURPHY, BELINDA HARRIS and KATHARINE WAKELIN, 2022. Riding a rollercoaster in a hurricane: Researching my own chronic illness Qualitative Research Journal. 22(2), 248-260 KATY WAKELIN, 2021. Authentic muddle: Revisiting authenticity in psychotherapy British Gestalt Journal. 30(2), 12-20
KATY WAKELIN, 2016. Strategic research: using CORE to establish an evidence base. In: JAN ROUBAL, ed., Towards a research tradition in gestalt therapy Cambridge Scholars.
KATY WAKELIN, 2016. Why would anyone want to be a therapist? British Gestalt Journal. 24(2),
KATY WAKELIN, 2011. The UK gestalt psychotherapy CORE research project: the findings British Gestalt Journal. 22(1),
KATY WAKELIN, 2005. On being a mother British Gestalt Journal. 24(2),