Staff Profile

Rob Abbott

Contact details

Telephone: - 01243 812046

Email: R.Abbott@chi.ac.uk

Location:- Room S5, St Michaels, Bognor Regis Campus

Role

Rob is a lecturer specialising in Early Years.

Experience

Rob has an MA, BACP(Accred). He teaches modules on psychology, philosophy, and cultural/social issues as part of both the BA (QTS) Early Years and BA in Childhood Studies: Early Years. He has many years experience within education across all age ranges in both the state and independent sectors, teaching English, PSHE, Careers Education, Drama, Information and Communication Technology and Business Studies. He has also worked in the commercial sector as a technical author and IT manager. He has written a number of books on English literature including titles about Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy. He also edited a series of books for Hodder and Stoughton.

As well as lecturing at the University, he works in private practice as a psychodynamic counsellor. He works with clients who are experiencing a wide range of difficulties including eating disorders, breakdowns, depression, self harm and substance misuse. He specialises in working with depressive illnesses and also regularly lectures about treatments for depression. He is a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor.

Interests

Rob is currently working on a PhD at the University of Brighton which takes an Academic Literacies approach to student academic reading.