Emily Taylor
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3892
- Email: emily.taylor@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 2.10, Doorway 6, Medical Quad, Teviot Place
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Background
I am Dean of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Validation for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology in the School of Health in Social Science. I provide clinical practice and supervision to the university's Psychological Therapies Centre and contribute to teaching on the MSc Psychological Therapies and the professional doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DCinPsychol)
In my current role as Dean I oversee the development and improvement of taught and research programmes across the College and lead in collaboration with the Dean of Education on quality improvement projects including Assessment and Feedback and supporting Tutors and Demonstrators. I represent the College on the Senate Quality Assurance Committee and am Vice-Convener of the Senate Academic Policy and Regulations Committee.
After qualifying, I worked as a full-time clinical psychologist in NHS Lothian Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). I moved into a part-time lectureship then a full-time lectureship, retaining clinical roles working in the National Ear Reconstruction Service and outpatient CAMHS. In 2016-17 I was seconded to the National Confidential Forum to hear the testimonies of adults who had experienced residential care as children, and to advise on the analysis and dissemination of findings from this Scottish government initiative. This included the interim report What We Have Heard So Far.
From 2017 to 2022, I was Director of Learning and Teaching for the School of Health in Social Science. This entailed strategic oversight of all learning and teaching practice in the school. During the pandemic, I developed policy and practice to support colleagues in the rapid, successful adaptation of clinically focused teaching and assessment to the online environment.
Previously, I was programme director for the MSc in Children and Young People's Mental Health and Psychological Practice (campus and online programmes) and the MSc Psychological Therapies. I contributed to the MOOC The Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People in summer 2014, and was part of a group delivering CPD to City of Edinburgh Council employees (teachers, social workers, foster carers etc.) on child and adolescent mental health. I developed and taught an online course: Trauma and Resilience in a Developmental Contextbetween 2012 and 2022.
Qualifications
PGDip Digital Education, 2018
DClin Psychol, 2002
MA(Hons) Psychology, 1998
Responsibilities & affiliations
Dean of Quality Assurance and Curriculum Validation for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology
Chartered Psychologist, Healthcare and Professions Council
Senior Fellow, Advancing HE
Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society
Member, British Assoication of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
Accredited Practitioner and Supervisor, IPT-UK
Postgraduate teaching
contribute to teaching on the MSc Psychological Therapies and the professional doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DCinPsychol)
Previous I was Director of Learning and Teaching for School of Health in Social Science. This entails strategic oversight of all learning and teaching practice in the school, and before this, programme director for the MSc in Children and Young People's Mental Health and Psychological Practice (campus and online programmes) and the MSc Psychological Therapies. I contributed to the MOOC The Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People in summer 2014, and am part of a group delivering CPD to City of Edinburgh Council employees (teachers, social workers, foster carers etc.) on child and adolescent mental health.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Current PhD students supervised
Research summary
My research in adolescent and developmental psychopathology is focused on parental attachment, resilience and risk, with the aim of establishing preventative and curative interventions for young people who experience significant early life adversity. The evidence base for care-experienced children and young people is currently lacking, especially in the UK and these young people have the worst outcomes of any group in British and European society. This population are therefore a priority for government. Recent guidelines by the British Psychological Society, to which I was a contributor, and the National Institute of Clinical and Health Excellence (NICE) emphasised the need for systematic research to develop an evidence base for meeting the mental health needs of this population. With university KE grants I have developed a network of stakeholders across Edinburgh to partner in and be consumers of rigorous research into the mental health and wellbeing of this at-risk population.
I run a lab group for staff, students and early career researchers (LAACLab) which has supported three grant proposals, one of which was student-led, and all of which have been successful. I am a founding member of the Centre for Applied Developmental Psychology.