Dr Kate Reid
- Lecturer in Psychology (Social Justice Place and Lifelong Education)
- Associate Academic (Institute of Health and Wellbeing)
- Tutor (Access) (Teaching - Open)
telephone: 01413303413
email: Kate.Reid@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests
Health Psychology, Narrative Medicine, learning and health, counselling skills, doctor-patient relationships, chronic pain, orofacial pain, documenting illness, qualitative methodology (inc NVivo), Intepretative Phenomonological Analysis (IPA), the psychology of ageing, promoting wellbeing in later life.
Research collaborations
Kate welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students, researchers and potential academic collaborators.
Kate has maintained her links with the Medical School at the University of Glasgow where she was originally awarded her PhD. She has most recently collaborated with Dr Phil Cotton in order to explore learning and teaching issues pertinent to enhancing communication skills with medical students.
Kate has worked closely with Dr Asbury and Mr Mick Serpell at the Academic Department of Anaesthesia (Gartnavel Hospital) in furthering understanding about the psychological factors which contribute to the experience of chronic pain. Kate has also made links with Glasgow University Dental School (Department of Oral Medicine). Kate and colleagues have explored the psychological factors involved in the experience of Trigeminal Neuralgia and other orofacial conditions.
Kate has strong links with the Department of Psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University where she has worked closely with Dr Raymond MacDonald on documenting the experiences of providing music provision for young children. Kate has worked closely with Dr Paul Flowers at the same university in order to review the growing use of the qualitative analysis approach – Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.
Recent Conference Participation
Reid, K, MacMillian, G., & Cotton P. (2011, Winter, 2010, Summer). Learning to Listen: Exploring medical undergraduates' experiences of receiving brief counselling skills training. Paper presentated at the meeting of AMEE (International Association for Medical Education) and Lifelong Learning Conference University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Reid, K., & Stack, N. ( 2011, March). Psychology on Screen: Cinematic Portrayals of Health and Wellbeing. Paper presented at meeting of The British Psychological Society, Psychology for All Conference (Public Engagement), London, UK.
Current Phd student
- Jaime Earnest was awarded a prestigious Kelvin Smith Scholarship in 2010. She is supervised by Kate, Rebecca Mancy and Dan Haydon. Title of project; Incorporating Public Responses to Health Communication into Epidemiological Models
Supervision Areas
- Learning and Psychology, Psychology of Health and Wellbeing, Medical Education, Qualitative Methods, Mixed Method Research.
Teaching
Kate Reid is a Lecturer and Chartered Health Psychologist. She is based in the School of Education. Kate contributes to teaching and supervision on a number of programmes including the MSc in Psychological Studies, Dip/Msc in Adult and Continuing Education, BSc Honours in Psychology, Open Programme and Access Programme. She is the course coordinator for the Certificate in Counselling Skills. Kate also contributes to the qualitative methods training provision at the Graduate School (College of Social Science)
Recent Highlights
Kate has designed and delivered an 8 week film course 'Cinema Feminista' in conjunction with the Glasgow Women's Library. This course uses movies and documentaries as a method to promote discussion of women's issues such as health, wellbeing, identity and power. A taster session for this course was featured at the 2010 Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival
Kate provided a one-day workshop entitled 'teaching and training others' for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. University of Glasgow. 2010.
Academic and professional body membership
- Full member of Division of Health Psychology (2001)
- Committee Member for Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP) (2010)
- Member of Professional Practice Board for BPS Steering Group – NHS Health Records (2010) - Publication of guidelines for use of electronic health records (October, 2011)
Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Affiliate Member of British Pain Society
Academic peer review for Health Psychology Update