Dr Sofie Bager-Charleson is a Senior Fellow (SFHEA) and Senior Lecturer at the Metanoia Institute, London. She specialises in research methodology, research training and supervision, reflexivity, and reflective practice in the mental health related research. She chairs the Metanoia research group “Therapists as Research-informed Practitioners (TRP)” aimed to develop training and policy to support psychotherapists and counselling psychologists in research.
She is the co-founder of the annual Metanoia Research Academy for practitioners and has published 8 textbooks and over 30 peer reviewed articles in the field of research methodology and reflexivity. Some recent textbooks are the complementary Enjoying Research and the Supporting Research books (Bager-Charleson & McBeath Eds 2020; 2022). A third edition of her Reflective Practice book is expected next year. Sofie is also a UKCP registered Psychotherapist, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at City St George’s University, London. She holds a PhD in Education from Lund University, Sweden.
