Biography
Ashley Brown is a Lecturer in Psychology (Education) in the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and co-lead of the LGBTQ+ Mental Health Research Group. She joined King's College London in 2021 for her PhD and now teaches across the Psychology BSc and Health Psychology MSc. Dr Brown is a Fellow of Advance HE and centres diversity and evidence-based practice in her teaching.
Her research is focused on sexual functioning and distress in minoritised populations, such as people with long term health conditions (LTCs) and who are transgender and gender diverse. She also works in scale development and psychometric assessment.
Most recently, she led An Integrated Psychosexual Intervention for Sexual Difficulties in People with Multiple Sclerosis (PIMS), a NIHR funded feasibility trial assessing a new intervention for managing sexual difficulties in Multiple Sclerosis. She is continuing this work supervising on an MS Society funded DTC grant with the aim of digitalising this initial intervention.
Clinically, Dr Brown works as a counsellor at cliniQ, a clinic for trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse people that works in partnership with King’s College Hospital.
Teaching
- Research Methods and Statistics
- Development of Sexuality and Gender Identity
- Clinical Psychology
- Neuropsychology
Research Interests
- Sexuality in LTCs / disability
- Developing and evaluating interventions for sex and relationship related difficulties
- Paraphilias
- Sexual and gender minority groups
- Psychometric assessment and scale development
Expertise and public engagement
- Training in sexual dysfunction treatment for specialist nurses via the MS Trust
- Talks for NHS sexual health staff about working with gender and sexual minority service users
- Work with cliniQ on development and implementation of wellbeing group programmes and patient resources