Dr Kalum Bodfield
School of Education
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: K.S.Bodfield@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 4987
Dr Kalum Bodfield is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Liverpool John Moores University. He lectures across a variety of modules including mental health and wellbeing and working therapeutically within early childhood. Kalum is recognised as a Chartered Psychologist in the British Psychological Society.
Areas of interest include adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), emotional regulation, self-concept, neurodiversity, trauma-informed education and social comparison.
Kalum's PhD explored the relations between neurodevelopmental behaviours, attachment, student self-concept and teacher feedback. The findings demonstrated a clear relation between attachment characteristics, neurodevelopmental behaviours and the self-concept with evidence suggesting that teacher feedback was fundamental in the establishment of these relations.
Degrees
2022, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, PhD
2016, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom, MSc
2015, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom, BSc (Hons)
Academic appointments
Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Liverpool John Moores University, 2022 - present
Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Education, Liverpool John Moores University, 2016 - 2022
Journal article
Bodfield K, Culshaw A. 2024. The place for diagnosis in the UK education system? Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Bodfield K, Culshaw AA. 2024. Applying the power threat meaning framework to the UK education system Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Culshaw A, Bodfield K. 2024. Trauma-informed education: a case for compassion-focused teaching? Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development, :1-12 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Bodfield KS, Carey P, Putwain DW, Rowley AM. 2023. A Thematic Analysis of Self-Reported Teacher Perceptions and Management of Atypical Student Behaviours and their Relation to the Student Self-Concept Pastoral Care in Education: An International Journal of Personal, Social and Emotional Development, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Bodfield K, Putwain DW, Carey P, Rowley A. 2020. A Construct Validation and Extension of the Adolescent Attachment Questionnaire (AAQ) Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37 :3070-3082 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Thesis/Dissertation
Bodfield K. 2022. The Relations between ADHD Behaviours, Social and Communication Traits of Autism, Attachment Characteristics, Teacher Perception and Management of Student Behaviour and the Self-Concept in Adolescents Putwain D, Carey PHIL, Rowley AVRIL. Public Url
Conference publication
Tracy F, McLain M, Garden A, Bodfield K. The Self-Determination of Teachers Post COVID-19 Pandemic British Educational Research Association Conference
Bodfield K, Culshaw A. Curriculum for wellbeing - embedding emotional regulation strategies into undergraduate programmes DOI Author Url
Fellowships:
Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS), British Psychological Society. 2024
Conference presentation:
Teacher Management of Atypical Student Behaviors and the Student Self-Concept, 14th International Conference on Education & Educational Psychology, Barcelona, Spain, Oral presentation. 2023
The Relations between ADHD Behaviours, Social and Communication Traits of Autism, Attachment Characteristics and the Student Self-Concept, Psychology of Education Section Conference, Liverpool, Oral presentation. 2023
Self-Determination and Wellbeing of Teachers During Post-Pandemic Recovery, BERA Conference 2023, Birmingham, Aston University, Oral presentation. 2023
Membership of professional bodies:
CPsychol, British Psychological Society.
Member, British Educational Research Association (BERA).