Dr Neil Rees is the Clinical Director of the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology. He oversees all clinical aspects of the programme. He works clinically for one day per week locally as Acting Head of Clinical Psychology at Newham’s Child and Family Consultation Service, where he works with children and young people with psychological difficulties and their families. His clinical career has also included posts at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and within a community paediatric palliative care team.

Neil oversees all clinical aspects of the programme, which includes the teaching and assessment of clinical skills and the co-ordination of placement learning. He manages the Clinical Tutor team and the programme’s Administration team and is the ultimate line manager of the Trainee Clinical Psychologists.

• The mental and physical health of children and young people
• Systemic and narrative approaches to Clinical Psychology
• Death and bereavement
• Community Psychology and the addressing of social inequalities
• Cross-cultural Clinical Psychology
• Identity development, and sexual identities in particular

• Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology
• Doctoral Programme in Educational Psychology

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Themistocleous, M., McCabe, R., Rees, N., Hassan, I., Healey, P.G.T., & Priebe, S. (in press). Establishing mutual understanding in interaction: an analysis of conversational repair in psychiatric consultations. Communication & Medicine. doi:10.1558/cam.v6i2.165

• Chartered member of the British Psychological Society and the Division of Clinical Psychology
• Developing and supporting a portfolio of research that centralises the voices of children and young people
• Co-author of the British Psychological Society’s guidelines for Psychologists working with children and adolescents with a lesbian, gay and bisexual identity — first draft submitted
• Executive Producer of Homoworld — a short film to be used in training to raise awareness of the heterocentrism of society. Funded by successful grant application to the Higher Education Academy Psychology Network
• Psychosocial Specialist in the British Red Cross and Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s overseas emergency response team