Overview

Trained originally as a nurse, Cordet has focused her career on developing communication.  This spans communication in leadership, healthcare, amd teamwork contexts. She is a coach, organisational, and healthcare research specialist with particular interest on all aspects of teamwork and collaboration.  She has a background spanning social, clinical and organisational research areas, all focusing at some level on communication.  Her PhD focused on social influence and persuasion within organisations, including leadership and organisational identity.  Since then she has worked on multiple clinical psychology related research projects including around attachment, bereavement and eating disorders.  She is the PI for an NIHR funded grant on Risk Communication with patients and clinicians in Epilepsy clinics using Conversation Analysis to examine the different effects of risk discussions.  She is part of an ILAE (International League Against Epilepsy) task force examining how communication with people with Epilepsy can be improved internationally.  She is also part of an international Conversation Analysis group exploring how risk is communicated in healthcare contexts - Risky Business, and the Oxford based Collaborative Values Based Care Collective.

She is a trained organisational psychologist (BPS stage 1), and was the PI for the MDTsInAction research programme examining how interprofessional teams can improve their communication and more effectively work together.  This work has lead to consulting with a range of multi-disciplinary teams to help to improve their wellbeing and effectiveness at work.  She is involved in a range of wellbeing projects with local and national commissioners, and commercial and not for profit organisations including www.UXCGroup.com and www.aim-your-team.com, engaging in joint research endeavours with Exeter University.  In particular she has lead www.project5.org (not-for-profit), a voluntary organisation to support the wellbeing of healthcare staff.  This constituted a significant movements in coaching, developing standards for coaching healthcare workers as an organisational (executive) director, which at its height involved more than 4000 volunteers, who she had responsibility for co-ordinating.

LinkedIn  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/a-prof-cordet-smart-cpsychol-79227882/

Qualifications

• University of London Birkbeck, MSc, Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Distinction)
• The Open University, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Social Psychology
• University of Plymouth, Foundation diploma, Family Therapy
• Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (FHEA)
• The Open University, MSc, Neuro and Discursive Psychology
• The Open University, Post Graduate Diploma of Professional Studies in Education, Education
• The Open University, BSc Honours, Psychology (First Class)
• The Open University BSc, Nursing
• University of Leeds, Diploma of Higher Education, Adult Health Nurse/Nursing (Qualified Adult Nurse)
• BPS Test User: Occupational Ability - Full
• BPS Test User: Occupational Personality - Full
• Star Coach Manager Practitioner
• Star Coach Practitioner
• Various diplomas and certificates including in: Family Therapy, Narrative therapy, Integrative Counselling, Certificate of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy practice from Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, Human Givens, Star coach manager practitioner, Certificate in Supervision Practice

Research group links

• Clinical

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Research

Research interests

I am keen to support PhD and Professional Doctroate students.  I have particular interests in the following research areas:

 Topics

• Communications in clinical contexts, e.g:
  • I have a significant strand of research around communication with people with Epilepsy
  • Narratives of managing risk with people with Epilepsy
  • Communication in staff teams
  • Systemic patterns in families and mental health contexts (e.g. with bereaved families)
• Involvement of Experts by Experience
• Staff Development and wellbeing 
• Coaching
• Leadership 
• Selection and recruitment to healthcare contexts and healthcare 

I am support research methods including:

• Qualitative methods, particularly narrative, discourse analysis and conversation analysis
• Psychometrics and Structural Equation Modelling

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Publications

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External Engagement and Impact

Committee/panel activities

• GTiCP (Group of Trainers in Clinical Practice) Research Chair
• DCP BPS  (Division of Clinical Psychology, British Psychological Society) Research Board Representative https://www.bps.org.uk/research-board 
• Organisational Director www.Progect5.com (Executive)

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