Dr Sophie Sansom

Senior Lecturer

s.sansom@bangor.ac.uk

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Sophie Sansom, PhD is co-director of the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at 58吃瓜. As a senior lecturer Sophie teaches on the聽master's program and聽is passionate about social and environmental initiatives having recently co-developed the Mindfulness-based Climate Resilience program聽(MBCR). Founder of SiTT (Support for Integrity in Teaching and Training)聽Sophie has established frameworks for community development and professional standards in the field. Having collaboratively developed a pioneering approach for the recognition of new MBP curricula Sophie sits on the International Panel of Acknowledgement (IPA) hosted by the European Association of Mindfulness-based Approaches (EAMBA). Leading on the scholarship and development of the Mindfulness-based Interventions -Teaching Assessment Criteria Sophies academic work explores ways of supporting innovation and accessibility while upholding quality and integrity; a key focus in her role as Chair of the British Association of Mindfulness-based Approaches (BAMBA).

Self-funded (inc. agency-funded) projects: I welcome informal enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in projects related to mindfulness. Please submit a draft research proposal (1-2 pages) to the above email address. Funded projects: Studentship opportunities within the school can be found at /studentfinance/postgraduate/funding#psychology

2025

  • Published
    Griffith, G. & Sansom, S., 20 Oct 2025, The Palgrave handbook of third-wave psychotherapies. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 65-83 28 p.
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥� Chapter

2021

  • Published
    Evans, A., Griffith, G., Crane, R. & Sansom, S., 2021, In: Global Advances in Health and Medicine. 10, 6 p., 33614255.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
  • Published
    Evans, A., Griffith, G., Crane, R. & Sansom, S., 2021, In: Global Advances in Health and Medicine. 10, 1, 6 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2020

  • Published
    Crane, R., Koerbel, L., Sansom, S. & Yiangou, A., 2020, In: Global Advances in Health and Medicine. 9, 4 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
  • Published
    Crane, R., Hecht, F. M., Brewer, J., Griffith, G., Hartogensis, W., Koerbel, L., Moran, P., Sansom, S., Yiangou, A. & Kuyken, W., 2020, In: Global Advances in Health and Medicine. 9, 11 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2023

  • Invited workshop for the International Conference on the Application of Mindfulness and Compassion - China (online)

    23 Apr 2023

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2020

  • 2 Jun 2020

    Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)