Bryan McCann

As a senior lecturer in psychology within Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU)’s Department of Psychology, I am a BPS Chartered and HCPC Registered Sport and Exercise Psychologist with over 13 years’ experience working in higher education. As an early career researcher my research interests focus on the interaction between adolescent physical activity and mental health, and I am interested in creative qualitative methods as a way of engaging hard to/hardly reached populations. I am currently Principal Investigator (PI) for a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between GCU and Sport Aberdeen which focusses on embedding sport and exercise psychology knowledge within the Active Schools programme to enhance adolescent physical activity and mental health. I am also PI on a knowledge exchange and academic partnership between the Department of Psychology and the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) supporting SAMH to redesign and upscale their psychological wellbeing provision to the public to address the ongoing mental health pandemic. I am director of studies for a PhD focussing on the role of physical activity for the mental health of care experienced children and young people.

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