Welcome!

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I've spent most of my life trying to understand people.​

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That journey has taken me from psychiatric wards and research laboratories to investment banks and university lecture theatres. Along the way, I qualified as a psychiatric nurse, earned a degree in psychology, completed postgraduate studies in both organisational and clinical psychology, and finally a PhD in Personality Psychopathology from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. I was also personally trained by the late Professor Paul Ekman at the University of California, San Francisco, to detect the fleeting facial expressions that reveal concealed emotion. People are wonderfully complicated—which is probably why I've never stopped being curious about them.

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I've worked as a registered mental nurse, registered psychologist, management consultant, and university professor across the UK, New Zealand, and Australia, in settings as diverse as community mental health services, FTSE 100 companies, MBA classrooms, and experimental research facilities.​

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For years, I wrote academically about personality and human behaviour. These days, after completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Writing at the University of York, I’ve turned to psychological fiction and drama instead.

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After a lifetime studying people, I now have the pleasure of inventing them.

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