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Patrick Langford

Educational Psychologist

Waltham Forest Educational Psychology Service

Biography

I am an Educational Psychologist working in Waltham Forest. I work with children and young people aged from 2-18-years-old across a wide range of settings. I run the Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) programme in my borough. I am the lead Editor of the journal ‘Open Journal of Educational Psychology’. My thesis aimed to explore what makes consultation effective. Using a mixed methods approach (including interview and observations) the core features of consultation, which lead to real world change for children and young people, were identified. I have experience as a reproducibility checker for the journal Meta-Psychology. I also curate the scientific blog www.psychbrief.com where I explore and summarise psychology, statistics, and meta-science.

Interests

  • Open research
  • Philosophy of science
  • Metascience
  • Science communication

Education

  • DEdPsy Professional Educational, Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2021

    Insitute of Education, UCL

  • MSc Psychology of Education, 2018

    Insitute of Education, UCL

  • PGCE (PCET), 2014

    Cardiff University

  • BSc Psychology, 2013

    Cardiff University

Skills

Consultation

Assessment

Psychologically informed training

Quantitative & qualitative research

Statistics

Project management

Recent Talks and Presentations

What are the effective features of consultation? A mixed methods analysis

A discussion of my work for my thesis exploring the effective features of consultation.
Oct 14, 2021 13:45 — 17:15
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A critical summary of preregistration and Registered Reports

My talk at the Cambridge ReproducibiliTea meeting.
Feb 20, 2020 16:00 — 17:00 Emmanuel College Cambridge
Slides

Open Educational Psychology

An introduction to open science practices in relation to EP work and qualitative research.
Jan 9, 2020 10:15 — 11:15 DECP Conference
Slides

Jan 1, 0001 00:00

Training

Workshops and training I have delivered at different levels (classroom, school, etc.)

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All Classroom management Other

Improving attention and listening at a whole class level

Training on improving attention and listening in the classroom. Topics include various language difficulties, motivation, and self …

Supporting autistic children in the classroom

Training for schools to help staff support children with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC).

Recent Publications

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What Are The Effective Features Of Consultation? A Mixed Methods Analysis

My thesis on the effective features of consultation
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UK Reproducibility Network Primer (Data Sharing)

The how and why of data sharing.
PDF All primers

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Editor

Open Journal of Educational Psychology

Feb 2022 – Present
Responsibilities =

  • Coordinating the review process for new articles from initial submission to publication
  • Managing colleague workloads
  • Organising and leading team meetings
  • Maintenance and development of the journal’s online presence
 
 
 
 
 

Educational Psychologist (EP)

Waltham Forest Council

Sep 2021 – Present London Borough of Waltham Forest
Responsibilities =

  • Consultations with parents and school staff
  • Observations of children in the classroom
  • 1:1 work with children, including using dynamic and standardised assessments
  • Writing reports
  • Delivering ELSA training
  • Attending Team Around the Family/Child (TAF/C) meetings
  • Delivering presentations to students
  • Participating in the anti-racism working group, including writing the anti-racism statement
  • Providing support via the parent drop-in service
 
 
 
 
 

Trainee Educational Psychologist (TEP)

Waltham Forest Council

Apr 2019 – Jul 2021 London Borough of Waltham Forest
Responsibilities =

  • Consultations with parents and school staff
  • Observations of children in the classroom
  • 1:1 work with children, including using dynamic and standardised assessments
  • Writing reports
  • Attending training sessions
  • Shadowing colleagues
  • Attending Team Around the Family/Child (TAF/C) meetings
 
 
 
 
 

Learning Support Assistant (LSA)

Ty Coryton School

Oct 2016 – Mar 2017 Cardiff
Responsibilities =

  • 1:1 support
  • Supporting young people in the community
 
 
 
 
 

Teacher

Hereford Sixth Form College

May 2014 – Aug 2016 Hereford
Responsibilities =

  • Teacher of A-level Psychology and Health & Social Care
  • Form tutor
  • Leading the Psychology Club
  • Reflecting on praxis for Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) qualification

Accomplish­ments

Bash/Git/R

Software Carpentry Nov 2019 – Nov 2019

Improving your statistical questions

Coursera Oct 2019 – Dec 2019

Learning the R Tidyverse

LinkedIn Learning Oct 2018 – Apr 2019

Improving your statistical inferences

Coursera Oct 2016 – Dec 2016

Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills

Society for Education and Training Sep 2015 – Jun 2016

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