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Dr Susan Birch


Group Co-Director; DECPsy Co-Programme Director and DEdPsy Programme Co-Director

MA, PGCE, MSc, DEdPsy, C. Psychol, SFHEA, HCPC Registered Psychologist (Reg. No. PYL23162)

Room: 223

Email: s.birch@ucl.ac.uk

Dr Susan Birch

Susan joined the educational psychology group at 911±¬ÁÏÍø as a tutor on the CPD doctorate course (DEdPsy) in 2008, becoming Programme Co-Director in September 2012. She was appointed as Co-Director of the Educational Psychology Group and Co-Director of the DECPsy in 2023.

Susan qualified as an educational psychologist at 911±¬ÁÏÍø in 1997 and worked as an EP, in two Local Authority educational psychology services, for more than twenty years, as a main scale EP, as a specialist EP for looked after children and as a Senior EP. Susan completed her Doctorate at 911±¬ÁÏÍø in 2005, focusing on using a resilience framework to explore the experiences of looked after children in education.

Susan has a wide range of professional interests, including working with schools to support the emotional health and well-being of children and young people, inclusion and bullying. Susan is also interested in ethical practice and interprofessional collaboration. She is currently working with colleagues at NatCen on a project funded by the EEF and YEF to explore school behaviour policies, school climate and student exclusions and engagement.