• Lavender

  Professor Tony Lavender

  Pro Vice Chancellor/Dean, Faculty of Social & Applied Sciences

  Canterbury Christ Church University

  Tony is a clinical psychologist and throughout his career has retained clinical contact with people who have severe and long term mental health problems. He has published extensively on aspects of service delivery, clinical practice, workforce planning, quality assurance and the evaluation of mental health services and psychosis. Within clinical psychology he has been influential in developing nationally agreed and applied approaches to the evaluation of postgraduate training and the development of standards and processes for accreditation of programmes. He has considerable experience of establishing quality assurance systems in a range of organisations including NHS Mental Health Services and Higher Education, and has played a leading role in workforce development nationally with the Department of Health, British Psychological Society and National Institute of Mental Health. Most recently he has been working with the BPS, Department of Health and NIMHE/CSIP on many aspects of workforce planning for mental health services. He is currently Joint Chair of the BPS/NIMHE group looking at ‘New Ways of Working for Applied Psychologists’. Tony is based here at the Salomon’s campus.

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