The Battle Back Centre hosts 5-day residential courses for veterans and military personal who are recovering from physical injury or mental distress. As a research assistant I took part in the adventure therapy and psycho-education along side participants and other staff. The 5 day course focuses on Self Determination Theory to provide participants with the tools to take control of their recovery. I helped to collect data and consent from participants, as well as analysing and writing up data… Show more The Battle Back Centre hosts 5-day residential courses for veterans and military personal who are recovering from physical injury or mental distress. As a research assistant I took part in the adventure therapy and psycho-education along side participants and other staff. The 5 day course focuses on Self Determination Theory to provide participants with the tools to take control of their recovery. I helped to collect data and consent from participants, as well as analysing and writing up data from previous courses for journal articles and reports for internal and external stakeholders. Show less

After my research internship I was offered a position as a research assistant at the University of Liverpool. Here I worked on two seprate projects which were both involved in chronic pain and neuroscience research.

The peer mentoring scheme at the University of Liverpool was developed to enable students to assist other students with settling into university life. The role involved being available for students to speak to on Handshake, signposting students to relevant events and services, sharing my personal university experience and assisting with wellbeing events for students.

The research project I worked on was based in the field of cognitive neuroscience and pain. Here I assisted with the development of 2 systematic reviews looking at predictive factors of chronic pain following spinal surgery.I learnt a lot from this role and developed many skills such as data extraction, literature reviews, data analysis, verbal and written communication skills, experience in working to a brief, problem solving skills and evidence grading.

The Open Door Centre is an fantastic charity based in the Wirral. They aim to give no waiting list access to cognitive behavioural therapy with a mentor for young people feeling down, low, stressed or anxious. I volunteered as a CBT mentor, working through an 8 week online CBT programme with mentees. Here I further developed my active listening skills, interpersonal skills and learnt to motivate and support young people in the local community.