Mrs Katy Webb

Profile

I studied for an Open Degree in Law and Psychology, graduating with first-class honours in 2021 from the Open University. I then went on to study an MSc in Applied Psychology with the University of Bedfordshire, with a thesis focusing on experiences of grief and wellbeing in individuals who experienced the bereavement of a loved-one during the Covid-19 lockdown (supervisor Dr Joseph Adonu).

I am a Drawing and Talking practitioner, currently working with young adults and their families in a specialist STEM sixth-form college as a KS5 Pastoral Tutor.

Research interests

My research interests include:

• Grief and wellbeing in bereaved parents and siblings, male experiences of infant grief and death, bereavement and belief in a just-world, TMT, MMT, bereavement and grief in relation to socio-economic status.
• Subjective paranormal experiences, anomalistic psychology, the anthropology and archaeology of death and burial, baby gardens, belief in the continuation of the soul, funerary practices in marginalised and diasporic communities, victorian funerary practices and proximity to the dead.
• Intersectional feminist perspectives of death and dying.

I am committed to trauma-informed, qualitative reasarch and am a member of The Association for Graveyard Studies, the British Psychological Society (Graduate member), The Friends of Foster Hill Road Cemetery (Bedford) and the Society for Psychical Research (SPR).

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Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Open Law & Psychology - First Class with Honours
• MSc Applied Psychology - Merit with Commendation
• GMBPsS