CV
Dr. Emma Broglia Academic CV
The University of Sheffield, Mental Health & Psychological Therapy Services, 31 Claremont Crescent, Broomhill, Sheffield S10 2TA, Email: [email protected]
Staff Page (University of Sheffield)
Employment and Education
2021 - Present : Research and Training Clinic Manager, University of Sheffield
I am the research lead for student support services and am responsible for developing a clinic to facilitate evidence-based practice and improve partnerships with the NHS, Psychology, and Clinical Psychology. I teach undergraduates and postgraduates in psychology/clinical psychology (see teaching). Open-ended (0.8FTE)
2020 – Present : Student Mental Health Research Network Co-PI, Kings’ College London
I am the co-PI of an ESRC UKRI network grant that brings together practitioners, academics, and students (see SMaRteN). I oversee projects concerning student mental health and longitudinal datasets. Funding: 4-years (£910,692)
2019 – 2021 : Postdoctoral Research and Policy Coordinator, University of Sheffield
I led the national evaluation of a project that explored partnerships between HE and NHS mental health services, involving co-production and teaching research methods. This led to the development of a toolkit endorsed by Student Minds, Universities UK, NHS England, Office for Students/OfS, and UCAS. I taught undergraduate and postgraduate Psychology students at a range of Universities. Funding: OfS, 2-years (£200,000)
2018 – 2020 : Senior Research Fellow, British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
I developed a Practice-Research Network for therapists and academics in HE. This included teaching data analysis and supervising research projects at TUoS. I remain the project manager and lead the development of a university counselling dataset (SCORE).
2017 – 2018 : Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sheffield
I led the national evaluation of a research project exploring the role of personal tutoring to remedy attainment gaps for BAME students (RARA). This included coproduction, teaching research methods, and supervising research projects. I led the development of online CPD for academic staff. Funding: Office for Students, 2-years (£260,000)
2014 – 2017 : Three-Year funded PhD, Psychology, University of Sheffield & BACP
Thesis: Student Mental Health Profiles and the Effectiveness of University Counselling: A Feasibility Trial. I have published five papers from my thesis and have been Editor and Guest Editor for two journals in this field. I taught level 1 and 2 research methods in Psychology throughout my PhD. Supervisors: Professor Michael Barkham and Dr. Abigail Millings. Funding: PhD funded by BACP (£95,000)
2013 – 2014 : Clinical Trial Coordinator, Public Health, University of Birmingham
I oversaw pilot and clinical trials concerning child and maternal health. I developed and evaluated new triage procedures, analysed hospital data, and developed staff training. Funding: NIHR CLARHC
2012 – 2014 : Research Associate, Public Health, University of Birmingham
I was the project manager of a cross-sectional cohort study exploring adolescent sleep, health, and academic outcomes in five schools in the Midlands. I taught research methods, sleep medicine, and data collection/analysis. Funding: NIHR CLARHC, 2-year contract
2010-2011 : MRes, Cognitive Neuroscience (Merit), University of Birmingham
Dissertation: Hallucinations of Self-Reduplication, Perspective Taking, and Cortical Hyperexcitability. Combined DTI, fMRI, and MRS in Understanding the Effect of Traumatic Brain Injury on Cognitive Function. I taught workshops for experimental and cognitive psychology at TUoB. Supervisor: D.r Jason Braithwaite
2008 – 2014 : Research Assistant, Psychology & Medical School, University of Birmingham
During my BSc and MRes; Psychology projects included designing computer experiments, data analysis, and writing academic papers. Medical projects included supporting a sleep medicine clinical trial and teaching diabetes education. Fixed-term contract.
2007-2010 : BSc, Psychology (2:1), University of Birmingham
Dissertation: Anomalous Cognition and Perspective Taking in the Non-Clinical Population (First class pass). Supervisor: Dr. Jason Braithwaite
Funding
2022/23 : Erasmus Staff Mobility Fund (amount unknown at this stage)
I have been awarded the Staff Mobility fund to visit Professor Wolfgang Lutz (University of Trier) to develop a partnership and co-develop new clinical interventions for university students who experience poor outcomes from mental health services.
2022 : University of Sheffield SURE Scheme (approx. £2,000)
Supervisor and line manager of a clinical psychology student exploring student experiences in HE and NHS mental health services.
2021 (pending) : UKRI MRC Mental Health & Wellbeing Grant, Leeds University (£110,073)
Co-PI for a project called “Creative Connections: Developing innovative methods to evaluate shared creative experiences to improve adolescent student mental health and wellbeing”. Led by Professor Bridgette Bewick and includes developing non-clinical interventions to support student mental health and wellbeing.
2021 : University of Sheffield Summer Internship (approx. £2,000)
Supervisor and line manager of a research assistant in Psychology to support data collection and analysis of focus groups to develop the Mental Health Strategy.
2020-Present : ESRC UKRI Network Grant, Kings’ College London (£910,692)
Co-PI for a grant to establish a Student Mental Health Research Network (SMaRteN). I was invited to join the leadership team to develop a multi-institution longitudinal dataset. I was later invited to be the interim co-PI (income generation approx. £30,000).
2020-Present : SMaRteN Research Grant (ESRC UKRI), University of Sheffield (£35,000)
Coordinator of a grant led by Professor Dean McMillian at the University of York to develop a toolkit for universities developing longitudinal studies (see project site).
2019-Present : Research Grant, UKCP, University of Sheffield (£15,000)
Co-PI for a grant to develop a dataset of student counselling outcomes (see SCORE). Funding supports database development and teaching data collection/processing.
2014-2017 : PhD Scholarship, BACP, University of Sheffield (£95,000)
This was the first PhD funded by BACP and its success led to the organisation funding 5 further scholarships. Funding included £30,000 for a feasibility trial.
2008 : Summer Scholarship, The Wellcome Trust, University of Birmingham (£2,000)
Research summer placement to explore sleep quality, technology use and mental health in adolescents. Supervisors: Professor Shahrad Taheri and Dr Teresa Arora
Boards & Committees
2021-Present : Mental Imagery for Suicidality in Students Trial (MISST) feasibility and RCT
I was invited to join the steering committee for a feasibility trial involving the NHS, Greater Manchester and Lancaster Universities (led by Dr Jasper Palmier-Claus). It is hoped that TUoS will be a future site for the Randomised Controlled Trial.
2020-Present : Editorial Board, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
I was invited to join the editorial board because my paper was the most cited in 2019. Duties include assigning peer reviewers and attending board meetings.
2020-Present : Data Strategy Task and Finish Group, University of Sheffield
I represent student support services in this task and finish group to improve data collection and infrastructure across the university.
2019-2021 : Co-Editor, Counselling and Psychotherapy Research Journal
I was co-Editor with Professor Michael Barkham and Assistant Professor Bridgette Bewick on a student mental health special issue (see CPR).
Teaching Awards
2021 : Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Teaching Experience & Research Supervision
Dept. of Psychology, University of Sheffield
2022 (turned down) : PhD Supervisor – I was due to be the second supervisor, with Dr Megan Freeth, for a PhD to develop a clinical measure for autistic students in therapy. This PhD was offered funds from the White Rose ESRC, but the student accepted a position elsewhere.
Dept. of Psychology, University of York
2020 - Present : Thesis committee – I was invited to join the committee, with Professors Peter Fonagy and Steve Pilling, for a PhD to explore NHS access gaps for students.
Dept. of Psychology, University of Sheffield
2022 - Present : Placement Supervisor & Line manager – Through my connection with the counselling service, we are offering four research and clinical placements for the new TUoS Psychology Degree that includes a year in placement. I will be the lead supervisor and line manager, working with the wider management group across our support services.
2021 - Present : Lead & Co-supervisor – Lead supervisor for four dissertation students and co-supervisor for five students on the Psychology BSc (PSY346). Through my connection with the counselling service, this is the first student cohort with the opportunity to do research with the service. These projects included therapist interviews and surveys.
2021 : Tutorial – Level 1&2 Research Methods Module, Psychology BSc (PSY1005 & PSY2005). Duties included adapting materials for small group tutorials and interactive exercises. Tutorials covered transferable and employment skills, writing/presenting a research abstract, qualitative lab report, thematic analysis, and feedback.
2021 : Lecture – Routes into Counselling and Psychotherapy Careers for the level 2&3 Psychology. Duties included producing/delivering lecture materials and Q&A.
2021 : Lecture, marking & assessment – Lecture on Designing Feasibility Trials for Research Methods Module, Psychology MSc (PSY6121). Duties included producing/delivering lecture materials and marking the 30-credit critical review assignment
2021 : Lecture – Mental Health Stigma and Student Mental Health for the Clinical Psychology Module, Psychology BSc. Duties included producing/delivering lecture materials.
2020 - 2021 : Lead Supervisor, marking & assessment – For three students on the Psychology MSc, which included a 30-credit systematic review and a 60-credit empirical project. The topics included student mental health help-seeking and outcomes. Duties included developing/delivering teaching content, supervision, personal tutoring, delivering workshops, and marking.
2019 - 2021 : Lead Supervisor – For two paid research assistants (PhD student and UG) to analyse therapy transcripts from university counselling and clean clinical data.
2015 - 2017 : Statistics Workshop Lead – I taught in the PSY2005 Psychological Research Methodology Module. This included designing teaching content for statistics workshops, delivering refresher lectures, and designing and marking exam questions.
2016 - 2017 : Marking & assessment – I used Turnitin to mark essays and research reports on the PSY2005 Psychological Research Methodology Module. I provided written and oral feedback and designed and delivered seminars for group feedback.
Dept. of Psychology, University of Birmingham
2010 - 2011 : Teaching Assistant – I taught in the Research Methods and Statistics Module, which included leading statistics workshops and marking weekly exercises and exam questions.
LEADERSHIP & ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION
University of Sheffield
2022 - present : Research Leader – I am completing the Sheffield University Research Leader programme; a 12-month professional development programme for leadership.
2020 - Present : Network Lead – I lead a student mental health research network, with Dr Nicola Byrom and Dr Alyson Dodd. I also lead a workstream that aims to develop an open-access longitudinal dataset. Duties include developing and facilitating online networking events, mapping research data, and producing network surveys and reports.
2021 - 2021 : Staff & Student Focus Groups – I led staff focus groups and analyses to inform the University’s new Mental Health Strategy and registration with the Charter.
2019 - 2021 : Coproduction & Outreach – I led student coproduction activities involving mental health service users and non-users across six universities.
2019 - 2021 : Project management – I was responsible for delegating project activities to team members, chairing multi-institution meetings, presenting at a National Learning Forum, submitting reports, and tracking budgets.
2018 - Present : Project management – I am responsible for chairing meetings, taking minutes, ensuring that group governance is adhered to, managing the project website, resolving conflicts of interest, inducting new members, and ensuring the project stays on track.
2018 - 2020 : Conference facilitator – I supported the planning and facilitation of the BACP Research Conference, which included ~300 in-person attendees and ~2000 online attendees. We won the “best online conference” for The Association Awards 2020.
2018 - 2019 : Staff & Student Engagement – I led staff and student engagement activities to develop online CPD to raise awareness of attainment gaps and student mental health concerns.
2017 - 2018 : Coproduction – I led Patient, Public and Professional Involvement groups to develop a symptom tracking mobile app. Groups included people living with MS, chronic fatigue, occupational therapists, CBT therapists, and doctors.
PUBLICATIONS (* indicates Q1)
H-index 10
Book Chapter – Invited by editors
Broglia, E., and Knowles., L., (2020). Chapter 14: Navigating the landscape of “evidence” in research In Enjoying Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed methods Research Sofie Bager-Charleson and Alistair McBeath (eds). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Academic Publications
Duncan, C, Broglia, E, Saxon, D, Barkham, M. Identifying differential referral sources and client access to psychological therapy services in the NHS (in preparation).
Newcombe, C, Broglia, E., Wright, C. Comparison of outcomes from a university counselling service before and during Covid-19: Exploring the use of remote therapy (in preparation – DClinPsy student).
Goodwin, J., Broglia, E., Barkham, M., Systematically Reviewing Interventions to Improve Students’ Help-Seeking for Mental Health Support (in preparation – MSc student)
Collins, C., Broglia, E., Barkham, M., A systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the effectiveness of university counselling services as determined by the CORE-OM and the CORE-10 (in preparation – MSc student).
Saxon, D, Barkham, M, Duncan, C, Broglia, E. The commissioning of psychological therapy services and its impact on patient outcomes: A multilevel observational cohort study of 211 Care Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England. (submitted)
Scruggs, R., Broglia, E., & SCORE Consortium. The impact of psychological distress and counselling on academic outcomes in higher education: Outcomes from a practice-based dataset. (submitted).
O’Donnell, J., Broglia, E., & SCORE Consortium. Towards a standard minimum dataset for counselling services embedded in higher education: Views from staff and practitioners. (submitted).
Broglia, E., Bone, C., Simmonds-Buckley, M., Nisbet, K., Chow, H., Knowles, L., Gibbon, L., Hardy, G., & Barkham, M. Building partnerships between mental health services to develop coordinated care in Higher Education. (submitted).
Bone, C., Simmonds-Buckley, M., Broglia, E., Knowles, Hardy, G., & Barkham., Reconciling Common and Personalised Mechanisms of Change and their Application to Student Mental Health. (submitted).
*Sampson, K., Priestley, M., Dodd, A. L., Broglia, E., Wykes, T., Robotham, D., Tyrrell, K & Byrom, N. C. (2022). Key questions: research priorities for student mental health. BJPsych Open, 8(3).
Broglia, E., Millings, A., & Barkham, M., (2021). Student mental health profiles and barriers to help-seeking: When and why students seek help for a mental health concern. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research
*Broglia, E., Ryan, G., Williams, C., Fudge, M., Knowles, L., Turner, A., Dufour, G., Percy, A., Barkham, M., & SCORE Consortium. (2021). Profiling student mental health and counselling effectiveness: lessons from four UK services using complete data and different outcome measures. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 1-19.
Priestley, M., Broglia, E., Hughes, G., & Spanner, L. (2021). Student Perspectives on improving mental health support services at university. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 1-10.
Barkham, M., Broglia, E., Dufour, G., Fudge, M., Knowles, L., Percy, A., & SCORE Consortium. (2019). Towards an evidence‐base for student wellbeing and mental health: Definitions, developmental transitions and data sets. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 19, 351-357.
*Broglia, E., Millings, A., & Barkham, M., (2019). Counselling with guided use of a mobile well-being app for students with anxiety or depression: Clinical outcomes of a feasibility trial embedded in a student counselling service. JMIR mHealth and uHealth. 7, e14318.
*Broglia, E., Millings, A., & Barkham M., (2017). The Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (CCAPS‐62): Acceptance, feasibility, and initial psychometric properties in a UK student population, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. 24, 1178-1188.
Broglia, E., Millings, A., & Barkham, M., (2017). Comparing counselling alone versus counselling supplemented with guided use of a well-being app for university students experiencing anxiety or depression (CASELOAD): protocol for a feasibility trial, Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 3, 1-15.
*Broglia, E., Millings, A., & Barkham M. (2017). Challenges to addressing student mental health in embedded counselling services: a survey of UK higher and further education institutions. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. 46, 441-455.
*Arora, T., Broglia, E., Thomas, G. N., & Taheri, S. (2014). Associations between specific technologies and adolescent sleep quantity, sleep quality, and parasomnias. Sleep Medicine, 15, 240-247.
*Braithwaite JJ, Broglia E & Watson DG (2014) Autonomic emotional responses to the induction of the rubber-hand illusion in those that report anomalous bodily experiences: Evidence for specific psychophysiological components associated with illusory body representations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40, 1131-1145.
*Arora, T., Broglia, E., Pushpakumar, D., Lodhi, T., & Taheri, S. (2013). An investigation into the strength of the association and agreement levels between subjective and objective sleep duration in adolescents. PloS One, 8(8), e72406.
Braithwaite J. J., Broglia E, Brincat O, Stapley L, Wilkins AJ & Takahashi C (2013) Signs of increased cortical hyperexcitability selectively associated with spontaneous anomalous bodily experiences in a nonclinical population. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 18, 549-573.
*Braithwaite J. J., Broglia E, Bagshaw AP & Wilkins AJ (2013) Evidence for elevated cortical hyperexcitability and its association with out-of-body experiences in the non-clinical population: New findings from a pattern-glare task. Cortex, 49, 793-805.
*Braithwaite, J. J., Samson, D., Apperly, I., Broglia, E., & Hulleman, J. (2011). Cognitive correlates of the spontaneous out-of-body experience (OBE) in the psychologically normal population: evidence for an increased role of temporal-lobe instability, body-distortion processing, and impairments in own-body transformations. Cortex, 47, 839-853.
Policy Reports and Professional Journals Basi, A., Broglia, E., Ayton, R., McKeever, M., Attenborough, C., Stenton, A., (2019). Raising Awareness, Raising Aspiration: Personal Tutors Helping to Tackle Attainment Gaps. Retrieved from: http://www.raratutor.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/A4-RARA-Report-2019_FINAL.pdf
Meselmani M, Baker Z, Basi A, Broglia E, Sutherland-Jarvest A, & Towers L (2018). Finding Potential: How a selective University can attract and retain high-quality students with equivalent qualifications to A levels. Retrieved from: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.779993!/file/Finding_Potential-Final_Report_Equivalent_Qualifications_Project.pdf
Broglia E, Millings A, Barkham M. (2016). Therapist experiences supplementing counselling with guided use of a well-being mobile phone app. Technology for Independence. Retrieved from: https://dx.doi.org/10.15131/shef.data.4256537
Broglia, E (2015). Reviewing the University and College Counselling annual survey: trends in student counselling services. University and College Counselling retrieved from: http://www.bacp.co.uk/publications/journals/ucc.php
INVITED TALKS, PANELS & ROUNDTABLES (selected list)
TALKS
2022 : Roundtable – Invitation to the Westminster Higher Education Policy Forum on the future of student mental health and to discuss policy recommendations to develop partnerships between University and NHS mental health services related to the SPEQS toolkit.
2022 : Roundtable – with Universities UK and Professor Peck, Higher Education Student Support Champion to discuss Serious Mental Health Difficulties in Students
2022 : Ministerial event and Roundtable – with NHS England, DfE, OfS, and Universities UK to discuss partnerships between HE and NHS, including the launch of a toolkit I led.
2022 : Roundtable – with MdEducational Foundation to discuss funding for mental health professionals in schools and colleges (see blog)
2022 : Invited Talk – at the City, University of London Student Mental Health Conference about the SCORE project and linked publications about counselling outcomes
2022 : Invited Talk – at the Yorkshire and Humber Universities Student Mental Health Network about the SPEQS toolkit concerning partnerships between HE and NHS.
2022 : Interview – for the podcast. “Developing a toolkit to support partnerships between universities and NHS services – student transitions”. SMaRteN podcast series.
2021 : Invited Talk – “Building partnerships between the university and NHS mental health services”. Mental Health in Higher Education Conference with Universities UK, Online.
2020 : Invited Talk – “Developing an open access longitudinal dataset for student mental health”. Student Mental Health Research Network Early Career Researcher Forum, Online.
2019 : Invited Talk – on my doctoral and postdoctoral research. “Embedding research into practice: Working with student counselling services to evidence the sector”, University and College Counselling Research Event.
2018 : Invited Talk (filmed) – “Fostering student mental health in the context of being a personal tutor”, Advanced HE and RARA Report Launch, Birmingham.
PANELS
2022 : Invited Panelist – “Building partnerships between the university and NHS mental health services”. Student Mental Health Question Time with Lancet Psychiatry, Online.
2020 : Invited Panellist – to discuss “Trends and Risk Factors of student mental health panel”, Rosie Tressler, Randy Auerbach, Daniel Eisenberg, Emma Broglia, Chloe Casey, Anna Ambwene, Katie Tyrell. The Student Mental Health Research Network Conference.
2019 : Invited Panelist – to discuss “Next steps for improving student mental health” alongside National Union of Students, Westminster HE Forum, Westminster
SYMPOSIA
2022 : “Using data to enhance the provision of UK mental health services for university students: A call to action”, Society for Psychotherapy Research, Denver
2021 : “Using clinical outcome measures to determine counselling effectiveness in different settings and client groups”, Society for Psychotherapy Research, Online
2019 : “Counselling and psychotherapy outcomes across the lifespan”, Society for Psychotherapy Research, Krakow
2018 : Symposium organiser “Reaching hard to reach clients with moderate to severe mental health needs”, Society for Psychotherapy Research, Amsterdam
2017 : “Depression and Anxiety outcomes from a feasibility trial embedded into a university counselling service” Society for Psychotherapy Research, Toronto