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Dawn joined the University in 2009, having previously worked at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Inverness and the University of Northampton. Earlier in her career she was a clinical psychologist in the NHS, working with older adults in a community mental health team in Leicestershire. She obtained her BA (Hons) in Psychology from Nottingham University in 1985, her Diploma in Clinical Psychology in 1991 and her PhD in 2008 from the University of East London where she was investigating the management and repair of shame. She is a Chartered Psychologist, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Division of Clinical Psychology, the BPS Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section and the International Society of Critical Health Psychology.  She is interested in supervising postgraduate researchers in the areas indicated below.

• Health and well-being 
• Transition to motherhood, in particular women's experiences of breastfeeding and moral discourse in relation to these
• Case formulation within psychological therapy 
• Managment and repair of shame
• Impact of mental health stigma on users of mental health services  

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Transition to motherhood; self-conscious emotion; making sense of mental health difficulties