Sharon Cahill

Dr Cahill is the People Lead for the DPsych team, she also teaches qualitative research methods to post graduate students and supervises both professional doctorate and PhD students. She's a member of the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology Ethics Committee. She is also a qualified personal coach. 

• PG Cert Coaching Psychology (Distinction)
• PhD Psychology
• MSc Health Education and Health Promotion
• BSc (Hons) Psychology

• Senior Lecturer, Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology, University of East London
• PhD Supervisor, University of West London (2021-2023)
• Head of School (SHSS) at the University of West London (2019-2021)
• Head of Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of East London (2016-2019)
• Head of Subject, Psychological Sciences
• Programme Leader of BSc Clinical and Community Psychology
• Research Director of Professional Doctorate in Applied Educational and Child Psychology

• Woodham, R., Rimmer, R. M., Fu, C. & Cahill, S. (2024) Acceptability of home-based transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in major depression: a qualitative analysis of individual experiences. Mental Health Review Journal, ISSN: 1361-9322.
• Lafarge, C., Cahill, S., Milani, R., Görzig, A. (2022). 2020 COVID-19-Related Lockdown: The Relationships Between Coping Strategies, Psychological Adjustment and Resilience Among a Non-clinical Sample of British Adults. Adversity and Resilience Science, 3, pp. 297–307
• Taylor, C., Lafarge, C., Cahill, S., Milani, R.,Görzig, A. (2022). Experiences of lockdown in the UK: A thematic analyses. Health and Social Care in the Community. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13772
• Riley, S., Brooks, J., Goodman, S., Cahill, S., Branney, P., Treharne, G. J. & Sullivan, C. (2019) Celebrations amongst challenges: Considering the past, present and future of the qualitative methods in psychology section of the British Psychology Society, Qualitative Research in Psychology, 16:3, 464-482, DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2019.1605275
• Yates, J. & Cahill, S. (2019) The characteristics of prototypical occupational identities: a grounded theory of four occupations. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, published online. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2019.1706154
• Calvin, M., & Cahill, S. (2018) The experiences of African-Caribbean women of their body after stroke. Nursing Times, Vol 114, p80-89.
• Yates, J. & Cahill, S. (2018) What kind of shoes does a social worker wear? A content analysis of four occupational prototypes. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling published online https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2018.1437596
• Calvin, M., & Cahill, S., Cocoran, N. (2016) Stroke among Afro-Caribbean Women: Lay beliefs of risks and causes. Journal of Clinical Nursing 25 (3-4), 403-411
• Spragg, M. & Cahill, S. (2015) Life just kinda sparkles: clients experiences of a cognitive behavioural therapy group and its impact on reducing shame in obsessive compulsive disorder. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 8.
• Gilbert, K., Tileaga, C., & Cahill, S. (2014) Dilemmas of long-term unemployment: Talking about constraint, self-determination, and the future.  International Journal of Education and Psychology in the Community, 4 (1/2)
• Lawrence, N. and Cahill, S. (2014) The Impact of Dynamic Assessment: An Exploration of the Views of Children, Parents and Teachers. British Journal of Special Education.  Vol, 41, No. 2, pp191-211
• Moorley, C. and Cahill, S., Tunariu, A. & Scott, O. (2014) Impact of stroke, a functional, psychosocial report of an inner-city multiracial population. Primary Healthcare, Vol. 24, no. 4, pp26-34
• Uhba, N. & Cahill, S. (2014) Building Secure attachments for Primary School children: A mixed methods approach. Educational Psychology in Practice, Vol. 30, Issue 3.
• Davis, B., & Cahill, S. (2006). Challenging expectations for every child through innovation, regeneration and reinvention. Educational and Child Psychology, 23(1), 80–89.
• Slade, M., McCrone, P., Kuipers, E., Leese, M., Cahill, S., Parabiaghi, A., Thornicroft, G. (2006). Use of standardised outcome measures in adult mental health services: Randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Psychiatry, 189(4), 330–336. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.105.015412
• Riley, S. C. E., & Cahill, S. (2005). Managing meaning and belonging: Young women’s negotiation of authenticity in body art. Journal of Youth Studies, 8(3), 261–279. doi:10.1080/13676260500261843
• Slade, M., Leese, M., Cahill, S., Thornicroft, G., & Kuipers, E. (2005). Patient-rated mental health needs and quality of life improvement. British Journal of Psychiatry, 187(3), 256–261. doi:10.1192/bjp.187.3.256
• Riley, S., Schouton, W., & Cahill, S. (2003). Exploring the dynamics of subjectivity and power of the researcher and researched. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 4(2).
• Slade, M., Cahill, S., Kelsey, W., Powell, R., & Strathdee, G. (2002). Threshold 2: The reliability, validity, and sensitivity.

Umbrella theme of social justice and power, including exploring issues around mental health distress and wellbeing; women’s experiences of work and of emotion; the ‘body’; children’s experiences of education.

Successful supervisor to 7 PhD students topics including: students experience of math’s anxiety, children’s experience of dyspraxia in the UK education system, African-Caribbean women’s experience of stroke, Para-Olympic athletes’ experience of education, children’s understanding of teacher emotion in the classroom and an evaluation of tDSC in the community and Men’s experiences of Domestic Abuse. 

Supervised to completion 25+ Professional Doctorate students (Educational, Occupational and Counselling) and currently supervising 5 Professor Doctorate in Counselling Psychology students. 
 

• Recognized Research Supervisor – UK Council for Graduate Education 
• Member of Association for Coaching 
• Chartered Psychologist & Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of Learning and Teaching group (BPS)
• Member of Qualitative Methods in Psychology (BPS)
   

Dr Cahill teaches the Research Clinic on the Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.