Pathways to Psychology, a journey with many possibilities at your fingertips

Hello everyone and welcome to our next blog entry. Today we meet Dr Grace Molloy, an Educational and Child Psychologist. Through reading Grace's experience we see the very may choices she had to make to ensure she was on the right pathway to support children and families. it also speaks to her grit and determination to stay the course, despite plenty of setbacks. We hope Grace will inspire your own decision to pursuing a Psychology career.   Dr Grace Molloy, Educational and Child Psychologist This time of year makes me reflect on the (often long!) journey to becoming a Psychologist. That is because for several years, the start of the new year was usually associated with application preparation for the training programmes and the anticipation associated with waiting to hear back from a University. I remember the constant refreshing of my emails and the horrible feeling which would hit my stomach when I received, what felt like, yet another rejection. It always made me wonder ab...

Hello everyone, we are very fortunate to have two trainee journeys shared from the field of Educational Psychology this week (please check out our blog for details). Today we read about Comfort Anwuzia's journey, initially uncertain as to the specific path to choose in her Psychology career, and then the joy and passion in working with children and young people, which firmed up Comfort's decision to pursue Educational Psychology. We hope you find Comfort's entry inspirational and useful for your own career decisions.   In 2014, I commenced my Undergraduate degree at Essex University, with the aspiration of becoming a Clinical Psychologist. I became interested in developmental Psychology during my second year modules there, and fortunately stumbled across a 1-year internship at an international infant school in Madrid. It was incredibly insightful to be a part the children’s language acquisition, and their multi-lingualism. This provided great opportunities to ‘”hold-off” wr...

 Hello everyone and welcome to our next blog entry. All the colleagues who write for the blog share their own personal experiences, in the hope to pursue a career in Psychology. Today we have the pleasure of reading about Charlotte Wastell, a trainee Educational Psychologist. She shares her passion for understanding childhood development and also the need to understand the internal life of a child through in depth training in Psycho-analytic and Psycho-dynamic studies. Charlotte speaks to the need to understand her own internal world through reflection and analysis and the role this plays across her training. We hope you will find Charlotte's experience a rich and informative glimpse into the life of a trainee Educational Psychologist. I completed my Psychology undergraduate at the University of Nottingham in 2018. I lengthened my course to 4 years as I studied at the University of Adelaide for a year. During my time in my undergrad, I volunteered for Nightline, this was highly rec...