Donna Smith

Researcher | Writer | Reader

Responsibilities


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Professional Roles

British Psychological Society Psychology of Education Section Committee, 2021-2025 
  • Postgraduate Students’ Representative
  • Membership Working Group
  • Outreach and Networking Sub-Committee
  • Organised and hosted monthly online ‘Coffee & Chat’ sessions for PhD/ECRs
  • Organised and hosted a one-day online workshop ‘The PhD and Beyond’ on academic careers, alternatives to academic careers, writing for publication and applying for grants 
 
British Psychologial Society PsyPAG (Postgraduate Affairs Group) Committee, 2021-2022 
  • Psychology of Education Representative 
  • Bursaries Sub-Committee
  • Awards Sub-Committee 

University of Chester, 2016-2019
  • SaR (Students as Recruiters) Representative: panel member for the recruitment of University of Chester employees in student-facing roles
  • StAR (Student Academic Representative): collected and analysed student feedback on psychology modules then presented findings to Staff Student Liaison Meetings
  • Panel member (Student Reviewer) for the Academic Periodic Review of the School of Law: assisted with the evaluation of the School of Law
  • Member of the Faculty of Social Science Board of Studies Sub-Group for Annual Monitoring and Review: student representative for postgraduate programmes

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Peer Review

British Psychological Society Psychology of Education Section
Research Grant Awards 2025: peer review of research grant applications
British Psychological Society Psychology of Education Section
Annual Conference 2024: peer review of conference abstract submissions
Palgrave Macmillan (Psychology and Neuroscience)
Review of book proposal submitted to the publisher on PhD wellbeing 2024
University of Cambridge Faculty of Education
Kaleidoscope Conference 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024: peer review of conference abstract submissions
British Psychological Society PsyPAG (Postgraduate Affairs Group)
Masters Award, Rising Researcher Award and Division of Academics Researchers and Teachers in Psychology (DART-P) Teaching Award 2022: peer review of award applications
British Psychological Society PsyPAG (Postgraduate Affairs Group)
Bursary Awards 2021 and 2022: peer review of conference and research grant applications

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Professional Memberships

  • GMBPsS – Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
  • Member of British Psychological Society Psychology of Education Section (BPS PES)
  • Member of Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)
  • Member of British Educational Research Association (BERA)
  • Member of BERA Early Career Researcher Network and Special Interest Groups: Higher Education, Mental Health, Wellbeing and Education, Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning, Research Methodology in Education, Social Justice, Inclusive Education 
  • Member of European Educational Research Association (EERA)
  • Member of EERA Early Researchers Group, Network 4 Inclusive Education, Network 22 Research in Higher Education

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Volunteering

The Hummingbird Project (2018-2019) 
Six-week emotional wellbeing intervention programme delivered to secondary school students (age 11-16) 
Beanstalk (2017-2018) 
Weekly sessions with disadvantaged secondary school students (Pupil Premium) requiring reading intervention (age 11-16) 
Adult Literacy (2008-2012) 
Weekly sessions teaching literacy skills to adult learners