Transitions Community Compass series - January 2025

We are welcoming Dr Andrew Holliman (Andy), who is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at University College London’s Institute of Education and Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Psychology of Education Section. Andy’s research seeks to understand the personal and contextual/situational risk and protective factors associated with a successful transition through compulsory schooling and onto university. Andy will join Dr Charlotte Bagnall to discuss his transitions experience following the sudden illness and passing of his beloved father in May 2022.

Dr Charlotte Bagnall is a Lecturer at the University of Manchester in Manchester’s Institute of Education. Her research is focused on supporting children’s emotional wellbeing within schools, particularly over primary-secondary school transitions. As part of her programme of research she is currently the Principal Investigator of the Primary-Secondary School Transitions Emotional Wellbeing Scale design and validation project (see the project website here: www.p-s-wells.org).