Rebecca Weston
Senior Lecturer
Department of Health and Wellbeing
email: r.weston@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 542956
Becka works in the department of Health and Wellbeing. She teaches across the Foundation Degree Programmes – Health and Social Care, Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Assistant Practitioner. Becka also teaches on the Foundation Year and supervises students undertaking their undergraduate dissertations.
Becka started her journey at Worcester as a Foundation Degree student, beginning these studies as a mature student. Once she qualified as a counsellor and completed her Masters degree (also at Worcester!) to complement her counselling work and draw upon previous teaching experience, Becka started lecturing on the courses and modules mentioned above.
Qualifications
- MSc in Counselling
- PG Cert in Learning and Teaching at HE
- BMus (hons) in Music
- FdSc in Counselling
Teaching Interests
Becka's teaching interests stem from her professional practice as a counsellor and previous career in teaching. Therefore she is usually involved in modules or teaching that are based around communication skills, work-based learning and developing self-awareness. She really enjoys developing students’ sense of understanding their own learning styles and how these can be activated within their course to their best advantage.
Becka is also the link tutor for the Counselling courses run by our partnership colleges at Iron Mill College in Exeter and Hereford and Ludlow College in Hereford.
Research Interests
Becka's main research interest explored in her Masters’ dissertation has been autonomy in counselling and the impact on the therapeutic relationship.
Becka has presented work on the student journey through a Level 5 work-based learning module and received a teaching team award in February 2020 for her involvement in this.
Becka has completed work on supporting the health and wellbeing of teachers, working collaboratively with colleagues in the Institute of Education (2023-2024).
Professional Bodies
Registered membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy