Professor ALLAN LAVILLE
Professor ALLAN LAVILLE
Biography
Professor Allán Laville teaches Clinical Psychology at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences (SPCLS) and was the Co-Chair of the University’s LGBT+ Staff Network before taking up his current role.
Allán has been with the University since April 2011, when he joined as a PWP Clinical Educator in the Charlie Waller Institute (CWI). By December 2013, he had progressed into the role of Senior PWP Clinical Educator working across CWI and SPCLS. He was appointed a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology in July 2019, promoted to Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in August 2021, and most recently, promoted to Professor of Equity in Psychology.
Allán is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS). He is Co-Chair of the Equity, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and member of the Scientific Programme Advisory Group for the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. He is also a member of the BPS Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Board.
In 2019, Allán won the Reading Students' Union Award for Diverse and Inclusive Teaching Excellence and in 2020, he was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship. Allán was a finalist in the BPS and Oxford University Press Higher Education Psychology Teacher of the Year 2020 and 2022 competitions. In 2023, Allán was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by Advance HE.