BSc, Environmental Geoscience, Durham University.Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health.Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society.My research is international in scope and focusses on improving scientific understanding of contemplative practices, including their applications in a range of applied settings. I lead a module on Positive Psychology and I teach on various British Psychological Society accredited BSc and MSc Psychology modules. I write a regular blog on Contemplative Psychology for Psychology Today and I am the author of The Way of the Mindful Warrior: Embrace Authentic Mindfulness for Wellbeing, Wisdom and Awareness (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers). I regularly travel all over the world to give keynote speeches, lectures and workshops on meditation and contemplative practice. In the case of this latter position, I had total operational responsibility for a £28 million portfolio of six supermarkets with over 60 employees. Prior to joining academia, I was a Buddhist monk for ten years and I previously worked in senior management roles for Marconi Plc, PepsiCo International and Aldi Stores Ltd. My research has been described as “ground-breaking” by Grazia UK, and during the past four years, my work has been featured by national or major news outlets on over 200 occasions in more than 20 different countries, including by the national BBC TV News Channel, BBC East-Midlands Today, BBC Inside Out, ITV News, Weekend Sunrise (Australian national TV breakfast show), 7 News, BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4, talkRadio, Heart FM, Capital FM, Smooth Radio, The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, Independent Arabia, The Sun, Daily Express, BBC Mundo, Metro, Express, Mail Online, This is Money, The US Sun, Refinery29, Bangkok Post, Yours, and Business Insider. I have been commissioned to write expert opinion articles for journals such as the British Medical Journal, and I sit on the editorial board for various academic journals, including Mindfulness. I have published approximately 100 peer-reviewed papers, four books, and over 120 other scholarly publications (e.g., academic book chapters, professional journal papers, internet articles, etc).
I am a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Professor of Contemplative Psychology at the University of Derby.
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