Dr Graham Mitchell

Graham is a Biological Psychologist by training. He is a qualified teacher, a graduate psychologist and a chartered biologist. He teaches undergraduate Biological Psychology, Educational Psychology and Positive Psychology. At post-graduate level he teaches on the MSc Child and Adolescent Mental Health course as well as Health and PGCE courses. His research interests lie in the area of Positive Psychology and self-belief with its effects on academic achievement and health. He is also researching into gender effects and academic achievement. More specific interests include resilience associated with major life events and stressful experiences, cognitive style (e.g. implicit ability theories, explanatory style), learned helplessness and depression, adolescent disenfranchised grief from relationship breakdowns, and the effects of geographical uprooting. Graham is also interested in the development of programmes designed to increase resilience in children and adults. He supervises quantitative and qualitative undergraduate, masters and PhD studies.

Other publications

• Hirom, K and Mitchell, G. (1999). The effect of mentoring on the academic achievement of boys. British Educational Research Association Conference, University of Sussex, UK.
• Mitchell, G. (2002). Gender, academic achievement and explanatory style. 1st European Positive Psychology Conference, King Alfred's College, Winchester, UK.
• Mitchell, G. and Hirom, K. (2002). The role of explanatory style in the academic underperformance of boys. European Conference on Educational Research, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
• Mitchell, G. (2002). Gender, academic achievement and explanatory style. Consciousness and Experiential Psychology, 8, 14-15.
• Mitchell, G. (2003). Gender, academic achievement and explanatory style. European Positive Psychology Proceedings 2002. (BPS publication), 102-107.
• Mitchell, G. (2004) Psychology in Education. In D. Matheson (Ed.), An Introduction to the Study of Education, (pp. 79-93). London: David Fulton Publishers.
• Mitchell, G. (2008) Psychology in Education. In D. Matheson (Ed.), An Introduction to the Study of Education, (pp. 70-84). London: Routledge.