Mike Marriott

Biography

Mike is a senior lecturer in Psychology and a member of the Department of Psychology in the School of Social Sciences. He is a registered clinical psychologist, an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Mike is primarily involved in learning and teaching related to mental health and clinical psychology. He is the course leader for the MSc Psychology in Clinical Practice, leading on the Self, Services, and Society module, and with overall responsibility for the clinical research placements. He also teaches on the Theory and Applications to Mental Health and the Research and Professional Skills modules for two other MSc course in Psychology, and on the Child and Adolescent Trauma module in Year Three of the undergraduate curriculum. Mike also supervises undergraduate and postgraduate psychology research projects. Alongside his teaching and research activity, Mike maintains an active interest in developing external collaborations for NTU, particularly in healthcare settings.

Research Interest

Mike's doctoral thesis for his clinical training used qualitative (IPA) research with people whose experiences were akin to "psychosis" and for whom spiritual or religious beliefs were of strong importance. Previous research within his NHS role was focussed around the appropriate use of routine outcome measurement in CAMHS, and he played a clinical consultation and facilitation role in a strand of the local Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) project evaluating measure use and trialling innovative practices in data collection. He has also published an evaluation of psychotherapies in the adult mental health context, with a particular focus on Cognitive Analytic Therapy. Mike provided methodological supervision of qualitative research with parents of adolescents diagnosed with “Anorexia Nervosa” and with users of a paediatric liaison service. He has consistently applied research skills to evaluations of clinical work across services, supporting and encouraging other healthcare professionals to adopt evaluative attitudes to clinical work. He is part of the supervisory team for a PhD project exploring social cognition and people diagnosed with “schizophrenia”. Mike’s main project currently is exploring the potential use of 3D body-scanning as an intervention tool to support people to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, with potential applications in either obese or “eating disordered” clinical populations. Future research plans are broadly in the field of the experiences of “eating disorders”, but particularly around understanding outcomes for young people, the development of these difficulties in males, and cultural considerations in treatment and management. He oversees a program of applied clinical research in the context of the MSc Psychology in Clinical Practice, and is happy to consider collaboration in any work looking broadly at people who access mental health services, using qualitative or quantitative methodology as appropriate to the research question.