About Alison Mackiewicz

Dr Alison Mackiewicz has a PhD from Bath University, and joined the Psychology department at Aberystwyth in 2013. Alison is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow with the British Psychological Society; she is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and UK Association for Transactional Analysis. She is also part of several national alcohol study groups.

During her time at Aberystwyth, Alison gained a Post-Graduate Teaching qualification (PGCTHE) and is a fellow of the HEA. She has also been trained by Public Health Wales and delivers Alcohol Brief Intervention (ABI) training to organisations across Wales.

Alison has teaching experience in a range of areas, including qualitative research methods, applications of psychology, psychology in practice, and in the past four years she is scheme coordinator and lecturer for the BSc Psychology with Counselling degree.

Her research interests primarily lie in alcohol consumption, gender, mental health and wellbeing.