Hazel MacCormick
Career Development Fellow
- MSc in Applied Psychology for Children and Young People
- Clinical Psychology
- School of Health in Social Sciences
Contact details
- Email: hmaccorm@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 1M.6
Doorway 6
Elsie Ingils Quadrant - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Background
Hazel graduated with a BSc in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh with an interest in child development. This led to working with children and young people in areas of urban and rural poverty across Scotland. She returned to the University of Edinburgh to complete a Master’s Degree in Applied Psychology for Children and Young People.
She then combined research and practice during four years in Blantyre, Malawi again working with children and young people in a range of contexts both in the hospital, at school and in the community. Hazel was involved with training and supervising counsellors working in an innovative One Stop Centre, funded by UNICEF to support survivors of child sexual abuse. Research interests included early brain injury on later development and parent/carer perceptions of their child’s difficulties.
On return to the UK, Hazel worked in the third sector running a counselling service in a primary school in an area of economic disadvantage, before starting to work with the University of Edinburgh in Autumn 2024.
Postgraduate teaching
Lecturer on the MSc in Applied Psychology for Children and Young People and dissertation supervisor.
Research summary
Hazel has been interested in the impact of inequalities on children and families, particularly families own perceptions of their community and its influence. She has been curious into what leads to families to seek help and the relationships they form with organisations. She would like to learn more about what leads to children not attending school and what works in order for them to return to their learning community.
Current research interests
Poverty, inequalities, persistent school non-attendance, global health.Affiliated research centres
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research (CAMHR)