Dr Jamie Kennedy-Turner
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology
- Department of Clinical Psychology
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 651 3969
- Fax: +44 (0)131 651 3971
- Email: Jamie.Kennedy-Turner@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Doorway 6, Elsie Inglis Quad, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Availability
My usual University days are Monday, 8:30-17:30, Tuesday 13:30-17:30, and Thursday 8:30-17:30.
I also work as a Clinical Psychologist in NHS Borders on Tuesday mornings and Friday all day. If you are trying to reach me for anything related to my clinical role, please contact:
PrimaryCare.MentalHealthTeam@borders.scot.nhs.uk.Please note, I cannot respond to emails sent to my University address regarding my clinical work with patients in the Borders.
Background
I studied Psychology at the University of York, graduating in 2013, after which I worked in a variety of clinical roles while undergoing additional academic study and clinical training.
Having worked for a year as a support worker in the North East of England, I then trained and worked as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) in busy IAPT services in Wolverhampton and York, completing a PGCert in Low Intensity Psychological Interventions at the University of Sheffield in 2016.
I first studied at the University of Edinburgh in 2017 on the MSc in Applied Psychology for Children and Young People at the University of Edinburgh, while training to be a Clinical Associate in Applied Psychology (CAAP). I loved living in Edinburgh and studying on this course, which I finished in 2018. I then worked for NHS Lanarkshire as a Mental Health Clinician in the CAMHS Early Interventions Team before gaining a place on the Edinburgh DClinPsychol training course, from which I graduated in 2021. I was a CAMHS-aligned trainee, whose research focused on investigating the associations between expressed emotion (EE), attachment, reflective functioning and self-harm in late adolescence/emerging adulthood.
I began working at the University in 2021. I currently work part-time at the University as a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, and part-time as a Clinical Psychologist in NHS Borders.
Postgraduate teaching
I currently teach mainly on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, with some teaching on the MSc in Psychology of Mental Health (Conversion) . I am the course coordinator for the Children and Young People teaching in second year of the DClinPsychol, and the Clinical Psychology 2 academic assignment. I also help to organise and oversee the Reflective Practice component to the DClinPsychol training.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Areas of interest for supervision
I am currently supervising a number of MSc and DClinPsychol research projects in the areas of attachment, reflective functioning, self-harm and expressed emotion. I will also be second supervisor for two PhD students in the academic year 2024-25, as well as the primary supervisor for a MScR.
Current PhD students supervised
Laura Wijnberg (DClinPsychol)
Michael Young (DClinPsychol)
Felizitas Kaiser (DClinPsychol)
Christina Homes (MScR)
Aradhita Gupta (PhD second supervisor)
Zoe Suk Yin NG (PhD second supervisor)
Past PhD students supervised
Jessica Conway (DClinPsychol). Thesis title: The Relationship Between the Broader Autism Phenotype and Psychological Difficulties in Parents of Autistic Children: A Systematic Review; and, “More separate and more misunderstood and more different”: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Autistic Birthing Parents’ Experiences of Perinatal Depression.
Jessica Crooks (DClinPsychol). Thesis title: The impact of parenting styles on adolescent illicit substance use: A systematic review; and, Are caregiver and adolescent -rated expressed emotion associated with adolescent self-harm and risk-taking behaviours, and are these relationships moderated by adolescent self-compassion?
Research summary
My research interests include child and adolescent mental health, and mental health in emerging adulthood (those aged between 18-25 years). In particular, I am interested in self-harm and suicidality; mentalization and reflective functioning; and attachment, family relationships, and communication. I am also interested in the psychological characteristics of those in applied mental health settings, and what psychological factors might be associated with mental health practitioner's wellbeing and effectiveness.
Previous research projects I have been involved with include systematic reviews on children's body shape preferences and eating behaviours; associations between Expressed Emotion (EE) and attachment; associations between EE, self-harm, and suicidality (submitted for publication); and associations between attachment and sexual risk-taking behaviours. I have also been involved in several quantitative research projects, typically of cross-sectional survey design. For example, one study investigated the associations between EE, attachment insecurity, reflective functioning and self-harm in emerging adulthood (see the published paper here). Another past MSc project involved gathering online survey data from parents of young children to test whether parental attributions mediated associations between parental Reflective Functioning and parenting behaviours (submitted for publication).
Focusing on Flourishing
Participants who have taken part in one of our focus groups for the above study can visit the following page for an update on our findings: https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/SandboxWiki/Focusing+on+Flourishing+-+Results+update
Conference details
Kennedy-Turner, J., Murray-Dickson, K., & Sharpe, H. (2019, March 14th-16th). A systematic review on the effects of exposure to unrealistically proportioned dolls on children's body image and eating behaviours [Poster Presentation]. Poster presented by Dr Helen Sharpe at the Academy for Eating Disorders International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York, NY.