Dr Kerry Hughes

Professional Biography

I am a Staff Tutor in the School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport, and have previously been a Staff Tutor in the School of Psychology and Counselling.  I started tutoring as an Associate Lecturer with the Open University in 2010. 

I am currently working on the team introducing the new module E225 Child Development: Birth to Adolescence. 

I completed my first degree in History at Swansea University, continuing on to train as a Primary Teacher specialising in History.  I completed a further two postgraduate certificates in Social Sciences and Integrated Mental Health, and a degree in Psychology.  I have also completed my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, and am registered with the Health Care and Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical). 

In academia I have worked as a Lecturer in Counselling and as a Senior Lecturer in Psychological Sciences, an Academic Link Tutor for validated partners in counselling, a Senior Tutor and a Qualification Lead.  As a Senior Tutor I was reponsible for the pastoral care of 1200 students via the Personal Tutor scheme, and took a special interest in working to support wellbeing at committee level University-wide. 

Teaching interests

I have a broad teaching experience, ranging from working within primary schools where I was a music co-ordinator and Year 3 Teacher, college provision in the community for students with learning disabilities, undergraduate and postgraduate psychology, and undergraduate criminology.  I have written a 30-CAT module on the Psychology of Wellbeing, and have taught across a number of applied psychology modules.  I have also co-written a 25-hour CPD course for counsellors and psychotherapists on Trauma-informed Counselling, available through the Open University here https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/short-courses/dgxs004/

Research interests

My doctoral thesis on Acute aggression risk: an early warning signs methodology was published in the Journal of Forensic Practice under my maiden name, and can be accessed here:  https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/1195/