Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Current project, using 2021/22 Early Career Research Funding. To explore spiritual experiences in all types of epilepsy, and to provide a more discriminating type of categorisation than has previously been undertaken and answer the research question ‘Do individuals with all types of epilepsy report associated anomalous experiences and which experiences do they have?’
Interested in archaeology, visiting musuems and art galleries. Hobbies include learning how to play the ukelele (badly) and wild swimming.
Research Interests
Research interests include mystical, anomalous and transpersonal experiences, clinical parapsychology and spirituality in epilepsy. I am also intersted in researching spirituality in psychotherapy and counselling, transpersonal practices in therapy, and the wounded healer.
Methodologies - narrative (particularly autoethnography), Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Reflexive Thematic Analysis.
External Roles
External Examiner - Alef Trust, MSc Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psycholog
External Examiner - Bishop Grosseteste University, BSc Psychology & Counselling
External Examiner - Wealden College of Counselling & Psychotherapy, Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy
Other Responsibilities
Module Leader - Psychology MSc programmes - Advanced Research Methods & Dissertation
MSc Counselling - Placement Officer
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, A transpersonal exploration of spirituality in epilepsy, University of Northampton
1 May 2014 → 3 Dec 2021
Award Date: 8 Jul 2022
Master, M.A. Philosophy (Aesthetics & Arts), University of Essex
Award Date: 1 Jul 1993
Bachelor, B.A. (Hons) Philosophy, King's College London
Award Date: 1 Jul 1992
External positions
External Examiner, Bishop Grosseteste University
1 Jul 2020 → …
External Examiner, Wealden Psychology Institute
1 Sep 2019 → …
External Examiner, University of East London
1 Oct 2018 → 1 Dec 2019
Keywords
- BF Psychology
- BL Religion
- RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
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Dreamy States and Cosmic Wanderings: An Autoethnographic Narrative of Spiritual Experiences In Epilepsy
Spiers, L., 1 Mar 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. 10, 1, p. 50-77 27 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review
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An autoethnography of a refused story of spiritual experiences of epilepsy
Spiers, L., Moriarty, J. (ed.) & Adamson, R. (ed.), 7 Jul 2020, (Accepted/In press) Storying the Self. Moriarty, J. & Adamson, R. (eds.). Intellect, (Performance and communities).Research output: Contribution to Book/Report › Chapter › peer-review
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Using Autoethnography to Explore the Experience of Spirituality in Epilepsy
Spiers, L., 15 Mar 2020, Spirituality and Wellbeing - Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Religious Experience and Health. 1 ed. United Kingdom: Equinox eBooks Publishing, p. 158-180Research output: Contribution to Book/Report › Chapter › peer-review
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Louise Spiers
Spiers, L., 3 Nov 2019, Mindfield: The Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association, 11, 3, p. 142-143 2 p.Research output: Contribution to Specialist Publication › Magazine
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A transpersonal exploration of epilepsy & its numinous, cosmic states
King, L., Roe, C. A. & Roxburgh, E. C., 22 Jul 2015.Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper
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Transpersonal perspectives of spiritual experiences in epilepsy
King, L., Roe, C. A. & Roxburgh, E. C., 10 Oct 2014.Research output: Contribution to Conference › Poster
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Activities
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'They would think I had some kind of mental illness': an IPA study of anomalous experiences in two mediums with epilepsy
Louise Spiers (Author)
13 May 2022Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation
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“It's given me this heightened sense of awareness, and a higher level of being”: An IPA Study of Spiritual Experiences in Epilepsy
Louise Spiers (Author), Chris Roe (Author) & Melinda Spencer (Author)
30 Sep 2019 → 1 Oct 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation
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Beyond illness: an IPA study of Anomalous experiences in temporal lobe epilepsy
Louise Spiers (Author), Chris Roe (Author) & Melinda Spencer (Author)
22 May 2019 → 23 May 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation
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An IPA Study of Anomalous Experiences in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Louise Spiers (Author), Chris Roe (Author) & Melinda Spencer (Author)
19 Jul 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation
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An autoethnography in poetry of experiences of epilepsy
Louise Spiers (Author)
22 Jul 2019 → 23 Jul 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation
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‘They'd Think You Were a Bit Loopy’: An IPA Study of Spiritual Experiences in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Louise Spiers (Author)
1 Dec 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation
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'This Other Side of Reality’: Epilepsy & Spirituality
Louise Spiers (Author), Chris Roe (Author) & Melinda Spencer (Author)
1 Jun 2019 → 2 Jun 2019Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation
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‘To be able to see things very differently’: preliminary findings of an IPA study into spirituality in epilepsy
Louise Spiers (Author)
26 Jul 2018 → 27 Jul 2018Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation
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