Growing Great Schools Worldwide Director
Sue Roffey FRSA FBPsS is a psychologist, academic, author, activist and speaker. She holds posts as Honorary Associate Professor at University College, London, and Adjunct Fellow at the Western Sydney University, and is also affiliated to the Wellbeing Institute at Cambridge University. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools.
Sue has spent much of the last twenty years in Australia, where she founded the Wellbeing Australia network and developed the Aboriginal Girls Circle – a program for Indigenous young women, based in the Circle Solutions principles and pedagogy, which is proving to be an effective intervention for developing healthy relationships, resilience and student responsibility. Sue is now back in the UK where she is focused on the Growing Great Schools projects to address whole child, whole school wellbeing – including the wellbeing of teachers.
Sue is in demand as an international speaker and consultant. She is a prolific writer and several of her books have been translated. You can see more details on most of the books here.
She is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a past member of the Editorial Board of Educational and Child Psychology, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Follow Sue on Twitter: @SueRoffey. You can read Sue’s blog posts here.