Profile

These days I spend a lot of time working from home, which is brilliant because I get a lot of time with my family. I feel very lucky to be able to spend so much time raising my son. Usually men miss out on so much of this.

I’m a Chartered Psychologist specialising in two areas: male psychology (the psychological aspects of men and boys) and the psychological aspects of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a condition that impacts about 10% of women. I used to lecture but these days I mostly write, conduct research, and work as a clinical hypnotherapist.

Most of my writing has been academic papers (around 80 ‘journal articles’ or ‘scientific papers’ or ‘lab reports’) but in the past few years I have been involved in writing academic books (three books), and articles (around five articles) for the new Male Psychology magazine. My research is mostly online surveys, which is convenient because I can do all of this from home.

Academic surveys require a lot of work, from planning (research and questionnaire design), to ethical approval, to setting up the survey, recruitment, collecting data, analysing the data, writing up the report, submitting the paper to a journal. It often takes submissions to several journals before the paper is accepted. It’s a lot of work but can be hugely rewarding if your research finds out something new that other researchers / academics / the general public find useful.