Ms Chantal Gautier
Chantal is a senior lecturer, C Psych (BPS), consultant and sexologist. She teaches on the BSc Psychology and Counselling as well as PG programmes.
Chantal specialises in a two areas.
1) Organisational Psychology covering subject areas including leadership, team building, engagement, workplace bullying, luxury services, job satisfaction, office re-design and workplace romances.
2) Sexology covering subject areas including sexual difficulties, identity, kink, BDSM, sexual health, psychosexual therapy, relationships, FGM, compulsive sexual behaviour (e.g, pornography) and sex education.
Chantal's academic expertise and experience in industry has led to her book publication: The Psychology of Work: Insights into Successful Working Practices, Kogan Page, in which she reminds us in the importance of bringing back the humane to organizational life. Results of her psychological based research on workplace romances in which she suggests that organizations create unwittingly the 'perfect playground' for relationships to flourish, have been widely reported in The Independent, Guardian, Evening Standard, Times, as well international coverage in The USA Today, Herald. She is also on the BBC expert database and Associated Press commentary registrar.
In parallel, she also featured in the Guardian's Finance Banking Blog, where she provided a theoretical analysis of bankers and their attitudes towards work.
A preliminary write up of her research findings on workplace romances was published in the Journal of Employee Assistance - Managing romance in the workplace
She continues to provide sound bites for international media agencies including ABC Radio Australia and Radio Air New Zealand and is available for commentary for TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, TV documentaries, news' broadcasts, talk shows and/or reality shows.