Dr Anwen Marshall graduated from Bristol University in 2021 and currently works in Bristol City Council as an Educational Psychologist (EP), where she also holds the role of ‘person-centred champion’. Before training as an EP, Anwen worked as an Assistant EP in London for two years, based in a primary school.

For her doctoral research, Anwen explored EP views on children and young people's participation in consultation meetings using both a online questionnaire and Appreciative Inquiry-informed interviews. Her research found a difference between beliefs and current practice, where trainee EPs/EPs generally believed in the benefits of participation, but practice often not mirroring this. Attitudes, facilitators and barriers were explored and Anwen very generously shared some of these in today's episode.

She also shares elements from t ...