Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Tutor

From May 1st 2010, Dr Alison Tweed will be leaving Leicester University to take up the post of Clinical Director on the Shropshire and Staffordshire Clinical Psychology Programme based at Staffordshire University. 

Her new email address will be a.tweed@staffs.ac.uk

Research Areas

• Qualitative methodologies
• Health psychology
• Skills acquisition and assessment
• Psychotherapy processes

Recent Publications (last 5 years)

• Ceaser, K.; Robertson, N. & Tweed, A. (2007) Exploring adolescent inpatient experiences of ward rounds. Poster presented to the Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference. 13-14th December 2007: London.
• Homewood, E.; Tweed, A.; Cree, M. & Crossley, J. (2006) Becoming Occluded: Breastfeeding experiences in women with post-natal depression. Poster presented at From Pregnancy to Infancy: Reciprocal Interactions and Interventions conference. 9th November 2006: Manchester.
• Homewood, E.; Tweed, A.; Cree, M. & Crossley, J. (2009- in press) Becoming occluded: The transition to motherhood of women with post-natal depression. Qualitative Research in Psychology.
• Martin, C.R.; Tweed, A.E. & Metcalfe, M.S. (2004) A psychometric evaluation of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in patients diagnosed with end-stage renal disease. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 43, 51-64.
• Melluish, S; Crossley, J. & Tweed, A. (2006) Simulated client role plays using trained actors in the teaching and assessment of clinical skills within a Clinical Psychology training programme: An evaluation. Conference paper presented to the Psychology Learning and Teaching (PLAT) Conference. 27-29th June 2006: York.
• Melluish, S.; Crossley, J. & Tweed, A. (2007) An evaluation of the use of simulated patient role-plays in the teaching and assessment of clinical consultation skills in clinical psychologists’ training. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 6 (2), 104-113.
• Thompson, A.R.; Tweed, A. & Young, H. (2006) The value of phenomenological approaches in exploring issues of marginalisation: The experience of using grounded theory and interpretative phenomenological analysis within clinical psychology training research. Conference paper presented to the Qualitative Research and Marginalisation Conference. 3-5th May 2006: Leicester.
• Tweed, A.E.; Ceaser, K. (2005) Renal replacement therapy choices for pre-dialysis renal patients. British Journal of Nursing. 14(12), 659-664.
• Tweed, A.; Crossley, J. & Melluish, S. (2006) Assessing trainee clinical psychologists’ clinical practice using video: An evaluation of the use of video case studies. Poster presented to the Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference. 14-15th December 2006: London.
• Tweed, A. & Kurtz, A. (2008) Special issue: Qualitative research and marginalization. Guest Editors for Qualitative Research in Psychology, 5, 1.
  

Recent Grants

• Higher Education Academy (2008) - £3100 awarded for project titled "Developing a valid and reliable means of assessing trainee clinical psychologist's clinical skills in-vivo".