Luna Clara Muñoz, PhD FRSA FHEA

Experience

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  National Audubon Society

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1992

  Fundraiser

  Fundraising for fisheries department

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  Warner Bros. Entertainment

  Oct 1996 - Aug 1998

  Legal Assistant

  Build and maintain relationships with producers, record executives, and artists as well as reporting to managers and Vice President. Licensing of songs for record compilations commissioned by Time Life etc.

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  University of New Orleans

  Aug 2002 - Jul 2005

  Research Assistant and Clinical Consultant

  Clinical Consultant- Jefferson Parish Juvenile Services Continuum of Care Committee & Jefferson Community School, Metairie, LA.; Clinical Placement- Jefferson Parish Juvenile Court; Clinical Assistant - New Orleans School-Age Assessment Service; Assistant Clinical Consultant and Project Coordinator - Department of Health and Hospitals/Office of Mental Health; Assistant Project Coordinator NIH Grant -Early Growth and Development Study

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  Örebro universitet

  Aug 2005 - Oct 2007

  Postdoctoral Researcher in Developmental Psychology

  Worked with Hakan Stattin and Margaret Kerr on the 10-18 longitudinal cohort of teenagers in Orebro; conducted data analysis on big data sets, managed project materials, wrote scientific reports for peer review, database management, teaching international students from all over Europe, and supervised undergraduate research projects.

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  University of Central Lancashire

  Oct 2007 - Jan 2011

  Lecturer in Psychology
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  Durham University

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2014

  Assistant Professor in Forensic/Developmental Psychopathology

  • Trained practising psychologists in the UK, via liaisons with the Ministry of Justice. • Consult with Forensic Adolescent Mental Health in Teeside, and they have now started assessing callous-unemotional traits within their patient groups based on my input. • Taught Forensic Psychology (BSc) and Developmental Psychopathology (MSc)

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  Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy

  Aug 2013 - Jun 2022

  Treasurer-Elect

  * Report to President and engage in executive committee meetings; produce financial reports; manage non-profit reporting to the IRS; create various bank accounting systems according to organizational needs; liaise with accountant; ensure PCI compliance and cybersafety as well as maintaining liability insurance for all directors.* Managed the following: Twitter and Facebook accounts and social media, accounting, non-profit NGO tax form submissions, liability, fund raising, event planning with 200+ attendees - international events with research-expert plenary sessions.Key achievements* Doubled the revenue to over £50,000 while tripling the number of members and associated fellows for SSSP. Show less

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  Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council

  Feb 2014 - Feb 2016

  Evaluation and Impact Consultant, Troubled Families Programme

  Commissioned to assess the impact of the "troubled families" programme by creating interview packets and managing a team of researchers. Managed consultancy funds to reach the goal of assessing families' progress and improvements over at least a 6 month period. Wrote end-of-project reports based on survey data involving all members of the family over 9 years of age. Met with interagency teams for multidisciplinary plans to work with families and improve child behaviour, school attendance, parenting interventions, housing, etc. Show less

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  Durham University

  Oct 2014 - Oct 2016

  o Chair of Ethics Committee at faculty levelo Conduct own-directed research projects, apply for funds to support and encourage undergraduates and postgraduates to learn in a research lab;o Review manuscripts for over 30 international and peer-reviewed academic journals;o Write up peer-reviewed research manuscripts and publish in academic journals;o Supervise 4 PhD students, and 1 Clinical Doctoral trainees - all successfully completed;o Promotion of women/diversity in Higher Education by serving as Co-chair of the Athena SWAN committee;o Enrolled in courses for leadership improvement;o Mentored postgraduate students by creating voluntary workshops on publishing, writing tips, and advanced statistics;o Designed and independently managed a course on psychopathy within the final year elective BSc psychology modules. Show less

  • Co-chair of the Athena SWAN committee for promotion of women in science

    Nov 2015 - Oct 2016

  • Associate Professor in Forensic/Developmental Psychopathology

    Oct 2014 - Oct 2016
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  Social Development

  Mar 2015 - Jun 2022

  Editor In Chief

  Editor-in-Chief (shared with 2 co-editors): Social Development (since 2015) - Wiley journal o Strategy/Promotion work with the Publisher and Co-Editors to plan a strategy for the development of the journal. To ensure that the journal fulfils its aims and remains useful and relevant to its users by following trends in the subject area.o Assist the Publishers in promoting the journal by advising on publicity and promoting the Journal wherever possible through contacts and at conferences attended.o Promoting the Journal and its activities through managing the Twitter feed.o Seek contributions to the journal.o Manage contributions to the journal by seeking peer-review by appropriately qualified and experienced persons.o Appoint and renew Editorial Board members for an agreed term and to ensure that the Board’s composition is sufficiently international and broad in scope to establish the journal’s reputation worldwide within its field.o Determine the contents of each issue of the journal.o Key achievements: --Instrumental in increasing the journal impact factor from < 2 to > 2 in two years. --Initiated and coordinated a YouTube channel for posting video abstracts for special issues of Social Development --Helped to create Special Section - Research Methods to increase readership and submissions Show less

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  University of Liverpool

  Apr 2017 - now

  Knowledge Exchange consultant and leader in qualitative analysis of a project to prevent gender-based harassment through intervening in bystander behaviour across universities within 4 LatAm countries. Funded by British Academy and ODA funding streams. * Ensured legacy by engaging in Knowledge Exchange with NGOs and key leaders to continue delivering bystander interventions. This peer-led training ensured the workshops were relevant and relatable for students.* Cocreating a toolkit of bystander interventions that are culturally tailored to share the knowledge with policy makers and community leaders* Co-developed bystander intervention workshop materials, based on prior experience in creating workshops for 4 universities across Ecuador (prior British Embassy-Quito funding). * Invited speaker to report on findings of the projects in Spanish at a Colombian academic conference on gender-based violence.* Delivered events to raise awareness of gender-based violence to groups of students of 50+ with a total over 200.* Analysed survey and qualitative data to publish in scientific journals, including psychometric analysis of surveys.--> Workshops were adopted by students for 8M / International Women's Day in Ecuador -- the "real world" impact Show less o Co-created MANAGING RISK AND VULNERABILITY IN CLINICAL SETTINGS apprenticeship course;o Supervise and direct large-scale research projects; apply for funds; create questionnaires after psychometric testing o Review manuscripts for over 30 international and peer-reviewed academic journals;o Published 100+ academic articles, blogs, opinions, etc;o Supervise 3 PhD students, and 16 Clinical Doctoral trainees - 6 successfully completed PhDs and a dozen completed DClinPsy who now work in the National Health Service;o Research curriculum development leader for all three years of the Clinical Doctorate in Psychology; o Teaching research methods and advanced doctoral-level statistics/ data analysis to Clinical Doctoral candidates; o Perform annual development reviews for trainees; o Personal tutor duties including mentoring; o Research review committee for review of all DClinPsych research proposals; o Selection committee for reviewing doctoral trainee applications, selection of interviewees, and chairing interviews, as well as providing feedback; o Presentations at Open Days and school visits for widening participation;o Internal examiner for DClinPsych vivas;o Consulted with an independent fostering agency (ISP, Kent UK) to enhance their provision of support with foster carers, in relation to my 2016 publication on mind-mindedness. o Invited to present to mental health clinicians about the current research on emotions and psychopathy at Her Majesty’s Prisons.o Invited to present on sexual harassment in universities and what preventions can work - both in Spanish and English. Show less * Led in developing coaching and mentoring programmes.* Led in managing organisational structure changes, creating more cohesion and effective collaboration across teams and monitoring important milestones.* Led Equality, Diversity and Inclusion activities for world-leading organisations with international reach and recognition. * Managed a team of a dozen staff to evaluate staff and student wellbeing across four institutes.* Presented policy changes and their outcomes using institutional data and national data as benchmarks.* Silver Award for Athena SWAN for diversity in higher education. Show less

  • Knowledge Exchange / Honorary Fellow

    Sept 2021 - now

  • Deputy Research Director in Clinical Psychology

    Mar 2020 - Aug 2021

  • Deputy Postgraduate Research Director for Primary Care and Mental Health

    Jan 2020 - Aug 2021

  • Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology

    Oct 2016 - Aug 2021

  • Senior Leadership Team for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion as Chair of the Athena SWAN

    Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
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  CENTRE 63 KIRKBY

  Dec 2018 - Jun 2020

  Evidence and Impact Consultant

  Commissioned to run a funded research project called "Making it better for boys" to understand boys' motivations to stay in school and prevent drop-out. Analysed survey data and wrote end-of-project reports. Met with funders to brief them on progress. Managed sub-project funds.

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  Wellcome Trust

  Jan 2019 - Jul 2019

  Principal Investigator

  Developed and led grant application based on my innovative research on children and families. Collaborated in a multidisciplinary public engagement activity with foster carers to relay knowledge of reparenting strategies.Organised keynote and roundtable discussion with foster carers for a full-day event.This project used storybook-format illustrations of common parenting challenges based on real scenarios narrated to me in prior co-production with foster carers to promote discussion of therapeutic reparenting techniques.This project combined expertise across psychology and English literature to involve foster carers in a public engagement event to give them greater knowledge about child mental health research in relation to parenting techniques.Our 1-day workshop attracted >30 carers, around 4x the number of carers that most of the continuing education workshops at that location attract. Ninety-nine percent of the carers found the workshop to be “very helpful”, giving the highest ratings on most to all aspects of the information provided. Show less

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  University and College Union (UCU)

  Jan 2020 - Aug 2021

  Equalities Team Member/ UCU Committee Rep

  Served on the Equalities team to identify how to build equality into all branch activities including your organising and bargaining strategies.Committee Representative for Psychology, handling all communications with 100+ staff. * Keynote speaker, activist, fundraiser, and campaigner for better working conditions.* Educated in employment laws and Equality Act.* Developed workshop materials on Decolonising research.Key achievements* Speaking engagements with Merseyside Pensioners Association.* Interviewed by Jeremy Corbyn on the future of Higher Education.* International Women’s Day Keynote speaker on the difficulties BIPOC women have in getting promoted within higher education institutes. Show less

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  Cradle to Career

  Oct 2020 - Oct 2021

  Chair of Steering Group for Cradle to Career

  Cradle to Career is an initiative to turn around the lives of families and ensure good outcomes for youths from birth to age 25 years. Funded by Steve Morgan Foundation and Right to Succeed.o Represent the academic expertise on prevention of violence and antisocial behaviouro Coordinate activities following the committee agendao Action on votes to approve expenditure of funds and hiring of staffo Coordinate recruitment of community representatives to serve on the C2C committeeServe as chairperson for monthly meetings to plan strategy and update on progress of each subgroup to track progress in educational areas, youth and family initiatives, and ensure community-led change. Show less

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  Luna Leadership

  Oct 2021 - now

  Founder + Director

  * Innovator in creating the Pivot with Purpose and Life After Academia Blueprint for Academics looking to shift their career direction* Over 8 years' experience in coaching, acceptance and commitment therapy principles, emotional intelligence, and psychological foundations of wellbeing * Invited Speaker for Exploring Equity in Open Scholarship Speaker Series, Colorado, USA* Invited Guest Speaker for a podcast on Discrimination in Clinical Psychology -- a Project by Autonomous Media London UK* Commissioned to deliver workshops on Decolonising Research Methodology for Applied Music Research lab at University of Liverpool UK* Interviewed for Nature on discrimination against women in higher education* Commissioned to deliver workshops on research methods to understand sexual violence against women in Colombia and Guatemala* Invited speaker for leadership training for high achieving women Show less

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  The Black Curriculum

  Nov 2021 - May 2022

  STEM Education Consultant

  Audited, reviewed and consulted regarding primary and secondary school curricula. Wrote reports with sources for teachers about the areas where Black British history and Black history, in general, can be included within maths, biology, chemistry, and physics. I considered inclusivity in all areas of equality, such as gender, disability, as well as body appearance more generally and developmental stages that are often unexplored (menopause). This followed the decolonial praxis to ensure teaching engagement and content is inclusive and accessible to everyone. In that vein, I provided resources that ranged from auditory to visual such as podcasts and videos, in addition to articles and research/ pedagogic papers. Show less

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  The University of the West Indies

  Feb 2022 - Mar 2023

  Honorary Research Fellow
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  The Luminary Group Ltd

  Jul 2022 - Jun 2023

  Co-Founder

  Managed funding portfolios, written executive summaries, and succeeded in generating growth for small companies, startups.Consultant for Local Skills Improvement Plan, writing reports for Secretary of State on the skills gaps that businesses reported. Based on data from SMEs and larger companies as well as apprenticeship enrollments, we compiled recommendations for future training provision within schools and colleges.

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  Durham University

  Apr 2023 - now

  Academic Coach

  + Mentoring academics to create consultancy services, which provide knowledge exchange income to the university+ Providing leadership coaching to aid promotion+ Training academics to create more inclusive teaching and supervision practices