Projects
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Consultant and member of Purrble @ Oxford team on an active research project with King’s College London exploring adolescent emotional regulation using an electronic animal called a Purrble while also developing an additional wrap-around Single-Session-Intervention based on CBT (and 3rd wave theories such as ACT and Mindfulness) to compliment the Purrble interactions.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/purrble-at-london-design-biennale
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Initiated a successful bid to the University of Oxford IT Innovation Fund winning a £25,000 budget. Designed and project managed a mobile website dedicated to reducing exam panic for Oxford students and delivered a successful project which has gone live and is being used by students with over one thousand unique sessions and over two thousand page views; the project won an OxTalent Award 2017 (out of 87 entries) and I represented the Student Welfare and Support Services on the Innovation Fund interview panel.
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Scripted and recorded a podcast on overwork and self-care for Oxford students using student experiences, available from iTunes and University of Oxford podcast pages, and has been downloaded over 1000 times.
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Created a successful bid and received £3000 from the University of Oxford Innovation Fund to introduce new technology into the Peer Support Programme to help students find Peer Supporters, only 4 out of 22 staff projects were funded.
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Collaborated with The Bodleian Library and two college libraries to establish a fund purchasing 45 counselling e-books for the university population and networked to create a specific home for the collection resulting in a page on the Bodleian website and increase in student access to therapeutic self-help literature even when off-site. Click Here for More Information
Research
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Project managed a £60,000 project in collaboration with Office for Students and Research England with a focus on University of Oxford PGR students, especially PGRs from STEM subjects, to improve wellbeing and resilience in developing Peer Support communities. The project resulted in the successful recruitment of Peer Supporters from STEM and non-STEM subjects, a comprehensive literature review and a research report.
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ACT-BE-ME
Consultant and external research supervisor on a ground-breaking research project involving the University of Roehampton and the charity sector. The project involved trialling a self-guided support programme with weekly email coaching/ encouragement for adolescents using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) skills.
I provided access to this cutting-edge research to Oxford students who are interested in working on their emotional resilience and capacity to change using the brand-new ACT programme. I helped the researcher access the Oxford student population, and I also carried out clinical supervision for the email coaches, to help them work with adolescents remotely with asynchronous email communication from an ACT perspective. I also assissted with feedback on academic writing and preparing the candidate for the viva voce.
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Please contact me if you would a consultation regarding your research project.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Adolescence and adolescent mental health
The university experience, especially transitions
Emotional resilience
Values and meaningful living
Clinical presentations of anxiety
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Knowlson, TJ & Milton, M (2012). A thematic analysis of Youth Offending Team employees’ experiences of preparing victims to meet the offender. The British Psychological Society. Paper presented at The Division of Counselling Psychology Annual Conference, Leicester, United Kingdom.
Knowlson, TJ & Milton, M (2012). Some of my best friends are psychoanalysts: Reflections on the British Psychoanalytical Council Conference. (January 2012), Psychology of Sexualities Review, 3(1), 65-70. Reflections on the British Psychoanalytical Council Conference on working clinically and ethically with diverse sexual identities.
Knowlson, TJ (2012). Borderline Personality Disorder: Ending with diagnosis. In M. Milton (Ed.), Diagnosis and beyond: Counselling psychology contributions to understanding human distress (pp. 86-101). PCCS Books. An exploration on borderline personality disorder, diagnosis, misdiagnosis, gender bias and some case-study examples. Therapeutic implications are explored around ending therapy.
Knowlson, TJ & Gozna, L (2010). Towards a grounded theory of how victims of crime consider their sense of readiness and preparation for a restorative justice meeting with the offender. The British Psychological Society. Paper presented at the Division of Counselling Psychology Annual Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom.