- Professor in Psychology and Sociology, Deputy Director Institute for Public Health and Wellbeing, University of Essex
Susan McPherson is Professor of Psychology and Sociology in the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Essex.
From 1998-2007, she worked at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust in psychotherapy evaluation, routine outcome monitoring and as a research psychologist in the Psychotherapy Evaluation Research Unit co-ordinating the Tavistock Adult Depression Study (a randomised controlled trial of psychodynamic psychotherapy for treatment resistant depression).
She has also previously worked as a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and at Kings College London.
From 2006-2024, she led research training for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Essex and is currently Deputy Director of the Institute for Public Health and Wellbeing.
Her research spans medical sociology, psychology and disciplines concerned with mental health and social welfare including critical approaches to diagnosis and evidence-based practice.
Her research interests include: therapy outcomes and effectiveness; social care, fostering and adoption; chronic depression: long term psychotherapy, management in primary care, informal caring; social history and history of health and care; and mental health inequalities
Experience
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–presentSenior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Essex
Education
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2007Kings College London, PhD
