Dr Mat Fuller
Academic & Professional Tutor, DECPsy & Educational Psychologist, Havering Educational Psychology ServiceBSc (Hons), DEdPsy, HCPC Reg Room: 224 br>Email: matthew.fuller.15@ucl.ac.uk |
After studying psychology at Goldsmiths University, Mat worked as a special needs assistant and assessment officer at a residential special school in Brighton. Mat began his Doctorate in Educational Psychology at ÂÒÂ×Ðã in 2015 and completed this in 2018. His doctoral research looked at the educational experiences of unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors, as well as the links between mentoring interventions and school connectedness. Mat completed his third-year placement as a trainee educational psychologist in Barnet and stayed with this team until August 2021. During his time in Barnet, he developed a resiliency building intervention for children affected by the Coronavirus outbreak and lead a working group looking at how EPs could monitor the impact of their work.
Mat has been working as a senior educational psychologist in Havering since September 2021. Whilst working here, Mat has lead on a project that aimed to support the mental health of children with a social worker and developed a training programme for school staff. Mat is also currently leading on the service’s practice supervision programme and critical incident response policy.
Mat’s professional interests include; refugee education, school based mental health support, executive functioning, practice supervision, training and critical incident support.