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Dr Nicole Eisen

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Dr Nicole Eisen

Position

Lecturer in Psychology

Department

Psychology

Email

N.Eisen (@gold.ac.uk)

Nicole is interested in the impact of mindfulness and compassion on mental health, wellbeing, and prosociality

I am a Lecturer in Psychology at Goldsmiths and a mindfulness and compassion teacher and mindfulness teacher-trainer.

Academic qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Psychology, King’s College London
  • MA Philosophy of Religion, King’s College London
  • BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Bath

Teaching and supervision

I can provide supervision for students wishing to undertake projects on mindfulness, compassion, or prosociality. I can supervise quantitative or qualitative projects. I can provide research guidance for projects conducted in schools.

Research interests

My research and teaching interests include:
• The science of meditation
• Research methods in meditation research
• The science of compassion
• The development of prosociality
• Mindfulness as a therapeutic approach
• The mechanisms of mindfulness
• Mindfulness and compassion as foundations for those learning third wave therapeutic approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
• Mindfulness of dream and sleep (including lucid dreaming)

Featured publications

Professional projects

I am currently a trial therapist for the University of Cambridge on the ATTEND trial, a multi-site, large-scale, randomised-controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of an adapted form of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for adolescents with depression and their carers.

I am an Associate Trainer for Mindfulness in Schools Project.

I teach the following courses:
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living
• The Mindfulness in Schools Project curricula