Dr Blaire Morgan

Blaire Morgan

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

School of Psychology

Department of Performance, Health and Wellbeing

Contact Details

email: b.morgan@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 542948

Blaire is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology who teaches across a number of the undergraduate modules and acts as a research supervisor for undergraduate, Masters, and PhD students. She has also worked as the programme lead for the undergraduate Psychology courses.

Blaire’s teaching is research-informed and shaped by current scholarship. Inspired by whole-person approaches to education, her teaching style is supportive, interactive and aims to prompt independent thinking, criticality and recognition of real-world applications of knowledge and research.

Blaire’s research focuses on wellbeing and mental health in applied settings and has been published in top-tier academic journals across the disciplines of Psychology, Philosophy and Education. She has also led the Wellbeing for Life research theme within the School of Psychology and acted as the Deputy Chair of Ethics for the Health and Sciences Ethics Panel.

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Qualifications

  • PhD Psychology, University of Birmingham (2013)
  • PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Worcester (2019)
  • BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Birmingham (2009)

Teaching Interests

Blaire’s main areas of specialism are Positive Psychology, Cyberpsychology and Individual Differences, however, she has experience in teaching across all core areas of the BPS curriculum. Modules that Blaire has recently led within the School of Psychology are:

  • Level 4: Introduction to Psychology
  • Level 6: Positive Psychology
  • Level 6: Cyberpsychology
  • Level 6: Psychology Research Project (dissertation module)

Blaire supervises PhD students (full-time and part-time) within Psychology, Education and Nursing. These PhD projects are related to wellbeing and mental health and include, for example, a focus on professional quality of life, secondary traumatic stress, wellbeing initiatives/interventions, understandings of wellbeing, and trauma-related support.

Research Interests

Blaire’s research focuses on wellbeing and mental health in applied settings. Examples of her research areas and activity include:

  • The ‘Flourish-HE’ Wellbeing Programme, involving the development, delivery and evaluation of a multi-faceted wellbeing programme for university students.
  • The Wellbeing and Resilience Workbook for Ambulance Professionals – co-authored book for ambulance professionals due for publication in November 2024 by Class Professional Publishing.
  • Cross-cultural and developmental explorations of gratitude (across children, adolescents and adults). The development and extension of gratitude measures (including validation of translated measures and explorations of new ‘species’ of gratitude, such as self-gratitude).
  • Character traits and strengths in online environments (specifically empathy and authenticity)
  • Savouring nature and pro-environmental behaviour.

Recent Publications

Examples of recent research outputs (for a more comprehensive list please see https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6294-0511 or https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/view/author/Morgan=3ABlaire=3A=3A.html):

Morgan, B., Simmons, L. & Ayles, N. (2023). Flourish-HE: An online positive education programme to promote university student wellbeing. (Frontiers in Education). https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1124983

Bromley, H., Davis, S., Morgan, B., & Taylor-Dunn, H. (2023). The professional quality of life of domestic and sexual violence advocates: A systematic review of possible risk and protective factors. (Trauma, Violence and Abuse). https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380231171187

Tachon, G., Rouibah, A., Morgan, B., & Shankland, R. (2022). A prototype analysis of self-gratitude: towards a broadening of the concept of gratitude. (Journal of Happiness Studies). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-021-00475-1

Morgan, B., & Simmons, L. (2021, May). A ‘PERMA’ response to the pandemic: an online positive education programme to promote wellbeing in university students. (Frontiers in Education). https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.642632

Gulliford, L., & Morgan, B. (2021). The concept of gratitude in philosophy and psychology: an update. (Journal of Ethics and Moral Philosophy, ZEMO). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42048-021-00103-w

Morgan, B. (2021). The Shadow Sides of Gratitude Special Issue: An Introduction by the Guest Editors. (Journal of Ethics and Moral Philosophy, ZEMO). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42048-021-00104-9

Hudecek, M. F., Blabst, N., Morgan, B., & Lermer, E. (2020). Measuring gratitude in Germany: Validation study of the German version of the Gratitude Questionnaire-Six item form (GQ-6-G) and the Multi-Component Gratitude Measure (MCGM-G). (Frontiers in Psychology). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.590108

Membership of Professional Bodies

  • International Positive Psychology Association

External Roles

Peer reviewer for a number of journals, including:

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Frontiers in Education/Psychology
  • Journal of Positive Psychology
  • Theory and Research in Education
  • Educational Psychology Review
  • Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology