Dr Catherine Steele

Catherine Steele

Psychology Lecturer/ KTI Fellow; Centre for People @ Work

Institute of Health & Society

Contact Details

email: c.steele@worc.ac.uk

tel: 01905 54 2280

BSc (Hons) Psychology with Business Management

MSc Occupational Psychology

Chartered Occupational Psychologist

PHD

Teaching & Research

Most of my teaching is in the area of Occupational Psychology, I teach on the MSc programme and I also run undergraduate modules on business and coaching psychology.  I have an interest in employability and career development so I also run modules for our second years on work based learning and applied psychology.  Both of these modules help students to think about their own career choices and develop employability skills.

I am also the course leader for the sport and exercise psychology pathway.

My research is in the area of careers and personal development, this includes student employability, coaching and organisational career management.  Current projects include; looking at the academic-practitioner divide in occupational psychology,  an examination of the benefits of teaching coaching psychology to undergraduate students and considering the differences between named and general degree pathways in psychology. 

I am also invoved in a large knowledge transfer project which centres around the commercial development of the Career Competencies Indicator.  This is a psychometric test developed by Sandra Haase at the University of Worcester as part of her PhD.  I am now working in partnership with Consulting Tools to develop this measure and produce it as a product available for use within consultancy, career guidance and in house career development programmes.

Professional Experience

Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society)

Registered Occupational Psychologist (Health Professions Council)

Member European Association for Work and Organisational Psychology (EAWOP)

Member Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology (SIOP)

Member British Academy of Management (BAM)

Member International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP)

Register of Competence in Psychometric TestingMember Society of Coaching Psychology

Member of the Association of Coaching

Publications

Steele, C., Andrews, H. & Upton, D. (2011) Statistics in Psychology, Pearson Education.

Steele, C., Francis-Smythe, J. & Arnold. J (Under Review) Career anchor measurement, stability and distribution. Personnel Psychology.

Steele, C. & Arthur, J. (Under Review) Teaching Coaching Psychology to Undergraduates. International Journal of Coaching Psychology.

Steele, C., Francis-Smythe, J. & Arnold, J. (In prepn) Investigating the Role of Career Anchor Congruence. Journal of Vocational Behavior.

Conferences:  

Steele, C., Arthur, J. & Francis-Smythe, J. (2011) The Career Competencies Indicator a 360 approach, EAWOP Conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Steele, C., Faull, A. & Jellis, M. (2011) What’s the Difference – Named versus general pathways in psychology, National Institute of Teaching Psychology, Florida, USA.  

Francis-Smythe, J., Steele, C. & Jellis M. (2011) Formalising academic practitioner partnerships in occupational psychology, DOP conference, Stratford Upon Avon, UK  

Steele, C. & Arthur, J. (2010) Teaching Coaching Psychology – Benefits and Challenges, International Congress of Coaching Psychology, London.  

Steele, C., Francis-Smythe, J. & Arnold, J. (2010) Investigating the role of career anchor congruence, International Congress of Applied Psychology, Melbourne, Australia.  

Steele, C. & Francis-Smythe, J. (2008) Investigating the role of career anchors in job satisfaction and organisational commitment; a PJ fit approach. BPS Annual Conference, Dublin.  

Steele C. & Francis- Smythe J, (2007) Bending over Backwards – A Flexible Approach to Career Management. EAWOP Conference, Stockholm.

External Responsibilities

Supervisor for the Q.OccPsy