Staff Profiles

Dr Judy Moore
Judy Moore is Director of Counselling at UEA and Director of the Centre for Counselling Studies. She taught on the full-time Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling course for several years and has published several articles and chapters on the person-centred approach. She is particularly interested in the question of the self and the spiritual dimension of the person.

Dr Anne Cockburn
Anne Cockburn is a Reader in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning.  Over the past 25 years she has been involved in a wide range of qualitative and quantitative research projects.  Her research interests include teacher stress, recruitment and retention, and she has recently begun to explore the use of mediation in primary teacher education.
 
Ian Draper
Ian Draper is a Counsellor at the University Counselling Service, and Director of the Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling. He has taught on the Diploma course since 2001 and, prior to this, on a wide variety of counselling skills courses. He has an interest in groups and groupwork, particularly gender issues in training groups. He is also interested in counsellor training and is currently collaborating on a book on this subject.

Dr Campbell Purton
Campbell Purton is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, and Director of the Postgraduate Diploma/Master of Arts in Focusing and Experiential Psychotherapy course. He is the author of Person-Centred Therapy: The Focusing-Oriented Approach (2004), and The Focusing-Oriented Counselling Primer (2007). His current research interests include the theory of focusing, concepts of the self and both the clinical and philosophical aspects of Eugene Gendlin's focusing-oriented psychotherapy.

Dr Bridget Beauchamp
Bridget Beauchamp is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning. Her current research interests include the construction of professional identity, the professional development of counsellors, the storying of lives and moments of transformation.

Emeritus Professor Brian Thorne
Brian Thorne is the founder of the Centre. He is a prominent figure in the international community of person-centred practitioners and scholars and has contributed substantially to the professional literature. He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and holds honorary appointments in both France and Austria. He is also a Professor of Education in the College of Teachers. He contributes to the Diploma in Counselling and is consultant to the staff group.

Associates of the Centre
Jean Ashby, Catherine Atkinson, Richard Baughan, Michael Corey, Miriam Crasnow, Antonia Riviere, Sally Russell.