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Dr Shakiela K Davies holds the position of Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Mental Health at the University of South Wales; is a Neuroscientist and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Shakiela has research interests which span across Clinical Psychology, Cognitive and Neuroscience of Language (e.g., Age of Acquisition and morphological processing); Research Methods, Mental Health and Online Grooming; Fears and phobias, sleep disorders, learning and memory; Brazilian Jiu-jitsu (BJJ) and psychological wellbeing

Shakiela has experience as an Assistant Clinical Psychologist with expertise in CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Stress Control, Mindfulness and delivering NHS group interventions, as part of her NHS training.

Shakiela has published and disseminated her research nationally and internationally (Spain, Canada). She co-authored and published Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies which provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of current perspectives on mental illness with references to psychological disorders and their current evidence based psycho-therapeutic applications. She is currently in a supervisory team examining Coulrophobia (clown phobia).

She was awarded one of the few fully funded PhD Psychology studentships at Swansea University which was based in Cognitive Psychology/Neuroscience of language and completed this in 2019.