Dr William Goodall

I am currently employed by the Department of Psychiatry at Ninewells in Dundee but this post, which began in 2003, involves me working between there and Psychology at the University of Stirling.

A career in industrial management led me back to university to study psychology in the 1980s. I completed my first degree at Stirling and went on to pursue a PhD in neuroscience, collaborating with members of what was then Stirling's Centre for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, on a variety of research projects in the areas of vision and lanaguage. After several years working in Psychology at Stirling I spent another spell in industry commercialising neural network applications developed by colleagues from Stirling's neuroscience group. In 2003, after a brief period of undergraduate teaching in the Stirling department, I took on the post of Project Manager working on the joint Dundee/Stirling development of a new grade of mental health worker for the Scottish NHS, the Clinical Associate in Applied Psychology. I still maintain an interest in neuroscience but not an active research role with a large part of my time spent on managing and monitoring clinical placements and the progress of clinical trainees.

 

Also reachable at:

Department of Psychiatry,
Centre for Neuroscience,
Division of Medical Sciences,
College of Medicine,
Dentistry and Nursing,
Ninewells Hospital & Medical School
Dundee
DD1 9S

We are working to consolidate this role in the NHS as well as investigating how we might develop both the role and training to support a fast-changing NHS and political agenda in the provision of mental health services in Scotland. We are currently working on the development of placement management processes and a library of DVD-based training resources for the delivery of CBT for common mental health disorders in primary care.

I am involved in teaching research methods/statistics and critical analysis both on the MSc and on various courses run by the CBT Training Group from Ninewells Hospital & Medical School. I currently supervise 5 MSc research projects all in areas of primary care mental health.

Goodall, W.C. & Phillips, W. A., (1995) Three routes from print to sound: Evidence from a case of acquired dyslexia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 12, 113-147

 

Phillips, W. A., & Goodall, W.C. (1995) Lexical Writing can be non-semantic and it can be fluent without practice. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 12, 149-174

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