Dr Ben Steeden

Qualifications:

BSc, MSc, PhD

Position:

Senior Lecturer in Occupational and Business Psychology

Department:

Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences (HAS)

Telephone:

+441179656261

Email:

Ben.Steeden@uwe.ac.uk

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About me

I was appointed as a Lecturer in Occupational Psychology at UWE in September 2020 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2021. I am currently part of the teaching team for the MSc Business and Organisational Psychology and lead modules on Leadership, Engagement and Motivation and Organisational Investigation. I was previously the Programme Lead for Business Psychology MSc. On the MSc Conversion (Psychology) programme I lead the Experience-based Learning module, and lead the Psychology of Work module for third year BSc Psychology students. I am a member of the Psychological Sciences Research Group and the theme lead for our Optimising Performance and Engagement research theme. 

Before joining UWE, I was a PhD researcher at the Centre for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Kent. My research explored whether a pro-youth bias drove a preference for potential over performance in leadership recruitment and I gained my PhD in Social Psychology in 2021. I was also an Associate Lecturer in the School of Psychology, teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate psychology programmes. I gained my MSc in Social and Applied Psychology from the University of Kent in 2016.

Before this, I worked as a Business Consultant for Bailey & French, a consultancy specialising in workplace solutions founded on positive psychology research, covering areas including wellbeing, leadership, and performance. 

I also spent over 15 years working in Learning and Development in Financial Services. I led an in-house learning and development team, developing and delivering training and coaching with a particuar focus on leadership and management. 

Area of expertise

-          Leadership and leadership potential

-          Unconscious bias in recruitment

-          Ageism in the workplace

-          Wellbeing at work initiatives and employee attitudes

-          Positive psychology

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