| Activity | Date of Birth: 31/03/1925
Place of Birth: Ford, Wiltshire, UK
University Qualifications and Professional Training:
Westminster College, London University, Diploma in Sociology, 1959
Birkbeck College London BA (Hons) Philosophy and Psychology 1963
Polytechnic of North London Diploma in Applied Behavioural Science 1975
Ph.D from Middlesex University (nd)
Professional Career:
Research Executive, Sales Research Services Ltd, 1963-1965
Senior Research Executive, The Thomson Organization Ltd, Media Studies 1965-1967
Managing Director, Bureau of Commercial Research Ltd, 1967-1970
London representative of Ernest Dichter International, 1967-1970
Part-time lecturing on Diploma in Sociology 1967-1970
Associate Director, Research Services Ltd, In charge of the Psychology Unit, 1970-1971
Freelance Researcher and consultant, carrying out qualitative and quantitive research studies
Consultancy in Organization Development, management training, lecturing and writing.
Developing as group leader and therapist. Specialised workshops on experiental learning, gender roles, creativity, subpersonalities and primal integration, 1971-1978
Research Officer, BPS Working Pary on the Future of Occupational Psychology, Part-time market research and management training, Part-time therapist, group leader and supervisor, 1978-1979
Senior Behavioural Scientist, Behavioural Science Unit, GLC 1979-1980
Lecturer for the Birkbeck Centre for Extra-Mural Studies on the Diploma in Psychology (part-time), Consulting in management training, organization development and creativity, research methodology-workshops and other presentations, 1980-1996
Tutor, group facilitator and supervisor of psychotherapists and counsellors at the Minster Centre, London.Link tutor with Middlesex University, 1994-2004
Individual and group psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, 1980-to date
Involvement with BPS and/or other societies and organisations (selected):
BPS, Chartered Psychologist 1988
BPS Fellow 1993
Ex Member BPS Division of Occupational Psychology
Committe member BPS Psychotherapy Section
Member BPS Scientific Affairs Board 2000-2002
Member and later Deputy Chair, Examination Board, BPS Counselling Psychology Diploma, 1998-2000
BPS Chartered Counselling Psychologist 1994
BPS Register of Psychologists specialising in Psychotherapy 2004
Secretary BPS Social Psychology Section 1960s
Registered Psychotherapist, UK Council for Psychotherapy 1993
UKRC Registered Independent Counsellor 1997
Accredited Supervisor of Individuals, British Assn for Clling and Psychotherapy 2002
Accredited Group and Individual Psychotherapist, Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners 1981
Accredited Counsellor, British Association for Counselling 1984
Co-Founder and Co-Director, The Serpent Institute, 1989-1993
Editor BACP North London Magazine 2002-
Member of Editorial Board, the Transpersonal Psychology Review (UK) 1997-.
Sources: J Rowan's Personal Details Sheet
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |