Kirsty Allan
Kirsty is a Senior Research Assistant here at UCLan and a PhD Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of Northampton. With interests in psi phenomena, sensory processing sensitivity and mental health, she has spoken at various academic conferences, is a coach to highly sensitive people and has published a self-help book.
Kirsty supports participatory research with children and young people exploring culture and consciousness. With expertise in exceptional human experience and psi phenomena and, practical experience in play, creativity and wellbeing, Kirsty's interests also include the co-development of an exploratory tool using story and illustration.
Kirsty has been a student of five UK universities and has taught numerous areas of psychology to undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her research projects have focussed on altered states of consciousness and restricted environmental sensory techniques (R.E.S.T). She has been an advisor to students and marker of IAPT programme students.
Kirsty has several years experience as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner at NHS Step 2 and worked with children and young people in the Trafford borough to address a gap in mental health services. In 2022, Kirsty was recruited to University of Northampton to lead the floatation tank research for the Exceptional Experiences and Consciousness Studies unit. She was recruited here to assist the data collection and analysis of a funded project exploring children's anomalous experiences, with Dr Donna Thomas. Kirsty is currently facilitating the development of an academic network event and an illustrated research tool.
- PGCert Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology, Liverpool John Moore’s University (Alef Trust), 2022
- PGCert Advanced Mental Health Interventions in Primary Care (IAPT), University of Manchester, 2015
- PG Dip Social Science Research Parapsychology
- Koestler Parapsychology Unit, University of Edinburgh, 2004
- BSc (Hons)Psychology, University of Glasgow, 2003
- Consciousness
- Psi Phenomena
- Wellbeing
- Sensory Processing Sensitivity
- Creativity
- Graduate member of the British Psychology Society
- Member of The Society for Psychical Research
- Member of Parapsychological Association
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- Kirsty has attended and presented at numerous conferences and events including:
- Science and Consciousness, November 2022
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, ‘Psi Saturday’, July 2023
- Thinking the Float Tank, August 2023
- Awakening Expo, August 2023
- Society for Psychical Research conference, November 2023
- Science and Consciousness, November 2023
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