Committees

Council

The council is responsible for the overall running of the organisation and ensuring that the organisation meets its charitable aims objectives (see the site bye-laws for a more detailed explanation of their function).

• Nick Blackburn (Chair)
• Luisa Bloom (Treasurer)
• Eva De Marchi
• Shireen Noor

Training Committee

The training committee is responsible for all aspects of the training programme, pastoral and academic needs of the trainees and the recruitment of trainees and the continuous assessment of trainees throughout the training programme (see the site bye-laws for a more detailed explanation of their function). 

• Barry Watt (Chair)
• Anastasios Gaitanidis
• Katia Houghton
• Francesca Joseph
• Andie Newman
• Judith Soal
• Mandy Wax
• Robert Weiss

Ethics Committee

The Ethic committee is responsible for receiving complaints and grievances from the public, members and trainees. It holds responsibility for administering the process of such complaints and grievances in line with our complaint and grievance policies and procedures (see the site bye-laws for a more detailed explanation of their function).

• Christian Murphy (Chair)
• Elizabeth Guild
• Beatrice de Lajudie
• Madhu Nandi

Consultation Committee

The Site Consultation Committee exists to serve Site members and trainees as an informal consultative and/or problem solving resource. Its function is not to investigate or adjudicate a grievance or complaint – this would fall within the remit of the Site Ethics Committee. Rather, the Consultation Committee provides confidential and informal consultation to Site members and trainees in the interests of advising on, resolving, or improving a situation, and in a manner that is preventative and/or alternative to a grievance or complaint. Members and trainees might also use the space to discuss and explore the pros and cons of taking their issue to more formal grievance and complaints processes.

• Russel Ayling
• Barbara Cawdron
• Keith Armitage

UKCP Representatives

Our UKCP representatives represent the Site at CPJA meetings and events and feedback important information to the council (see the site bye-laws for a more detailed explanation of their function).

• Nick Blackburn

Events Planner/Co-ordinator

Tobias Jenkins recently completed an Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK) funded doctorate on W.R. Bion’s late literary and autobiographical writing in the English Literature Department of King’s College London. He holds an MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytical Studies from the UCL Psychoanalysis Unit and worked as an honorary psychotherapist at Hounslow Psychotherapy Service, West London NHS Trust throughout his postgraduate studies. He was formerly the Research Administrator at the Centre for Humanities and Health at King’s College London.