Dr Ilham Sebah
- ROLE:Senior Lecturer Psychology
- CONTACT:+971 04 367 8100
- EMAIL:[email protected]
Dr Ilham Sebah holds a PhD in Psychology from Greenwich University and a MSc in Clinical Neuroscience from King’s College London. She is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology specialising in the field of resilience and wellbeing.
Her PhD research involved the development of a resilience intervention for students in Higher Education (The Resilience Enhancement Programme ©) and her postdoctoral fellowship extended this research into the medical field, working alongside junior doctors, consultants and GPs. Her breadth of experience and expertise in resilience has led to contributions in both the public and private sectors, including publications, science communication and consultancy.
Dr Sebah teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and covers a broad range of areas in Psychology. Her research interests include health psychology, wellbeing, resilience and the development and evaluation of interventions.
- PhD (Psychology), Greenwich University, UK
- MSc (Clinical Neuroscience), King’s College London, UK
- BSc (Psychology), University of Westminster, UK
- Resilience and Wellbeing Interventions
- Stress, Wellbeing and Performance
- Individual Differences in Wellbeing
- Neuroscience of Resilience
- Wellbeing in the Workplace
- Ravenhill, J. P., Hayes, B., Nodin, N., Ramnani, N., Sebah, I., & Bourne, V. J. (2024). Inclusive pedagogies for learning the psychology of equality, diversity, and inclusion. Psychology Teaching Review, 30(1), 84-95.
- Robinson, O., Sebah, I., & Avram, A. A. (2022). The Resilience Enhancement Programme for Students (REP-S): Evaluating an Online Intervention for Boosting Resilience in Students. In Prescott, J. (Ed.). (2022). Digital Innovations for Mental Health Support. IGI Global.
- Robinson, O., Sebah, I., McNay, I., Field, J., Wragg, J., Stevenson, M., & Newton, P. (2021). Evaluating the REP-S brief resilience intervention for students in Higher Education: A multi-study mixed-methods programme of research. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling.
- Linceviciute, S., Ridge, Damien T., Smyth, N., Cartwright, T., Sebah, I., Bryant, K. and Woolston, J. (2021). Added Value Report: University of Westminster Transformation in Students Project. London University of Westminster.
- Sebah, I (2020). Atlas Men’s Well-being Programme: Evaluation Report Atlas 2.0. University of Westminster Press.
