Dr. Katie Callicott

• Applied Educational and Child Psychology Doctorate,
• PGCE
• BSc (Hons) in Psychology 

Katie graduated from Cardiff University in 2001 with a BSci in Psychology and then trained and worked as a teacher for three years before enrolling on the Applied Educational and Child Psychology Doctorate at the University of Birmingham. Katie has worked as an educational psychologist for Birmingham City Council since 2011. She joined the academic and professional tutor team at the University of Birmingham in 2021 and continues to work as an educational psychologist for fifty percent of her time.

Applied Educational and Child Psychology Doctorate

• Applied Educational and Child Psychology Doctorate
• MSci Psychology and Psychological Practice

Katie is interested in dynamic assessment. She is keen to encourage the use of dynamic assessment within the field of educational psychology, so that theoretical advances are grounded in practice. Katie is involved in project work, involving the design of tools and processes to support the use of dynamic assessment, collaborating with academics from University College London.

Katie is an accredited Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) practitioner and supervisor. She seeks to use video reflection in creative ways to support skill development for educational psychologists, teachers and teaching assistants.

Supervision has been an ongoing area of research interest. Katie is currently focusing on using video to support reflection within supervision.

Other areas of interest include approaches that are underpinned by narrative therapy, activity theory and personal construct psychology.

2021-2023 Member of the Editorial Board OJEP Open Journal of Educational psychology

2023-2025 Member of the Editorial Board EPIP Educational Psychology in Practice