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Meet our Authors

Jenny Fox Eades

Jenny Fox Eades is Programme Director for Schools and Young People at the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology. Jenny trained as a special needs teacher at the University of Manchester and has an MA in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, London and UEL. Her first degree was in Archaeology and Anthropology from Cambridge University and she has a Diploma of Higher Education in Theology from Westminster College in Oxford . She also has qualification in counselling skills and group psychotherapy. She studied on Authentic Happiness 4 with Martin Seligman and is a founder member of the Positive Workplace Alliance.

Jenny has taught children across the age and ability range, including looked after and at risk teenagers. For the past four years she has been applying positive psychology in schools in North Lincolnshire, developing and running the Celebrating Strengths project and working with teachers, parents and children. Her previous books are Listening to Life (2004, Quay Press), a practical guide to spiritual development in the classroom, and Classroom Tales (2006, Jessica Kingsley Publishers) a guide to using stories and story telling for emotional and academic development.

Alex Linley

Alex Linley is a psychologist by training and a social entrepreneur by practice. Alex is the founder and Director of the Centre for Applied Positive Psychology (www.cappeu.org), a not-for-profit membership organisation, focused on the applications of strengths in organisations and schools, and Director of CAPP Press, the publishing arm of CAPP.

Prior to establishing CAPP, Alex was on the Faculty at the School of Psychology, University of Leicester for three years. His first degree in psychology was from the University of Leicester, where he graduated with first class honours and the Sluckin Prize. Alex also holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Warwick.

In the early days of positive psychology, Alex was a Founding Committee Member of the European Network for Positive Psychology, and later served as its Chair. Alex has written, co-written, or edited more than 60 research papers and book chapters, and four books, including Positive Psychology in Practice (edited with Stephen Joseph; Wiley, 2004), Positive Therapy: A Meta-theory for Positive Psychological Practice (co-authored with Stephen Joseph, Routledge, 2006), Trauma, Recovery, and Growth: Positive Psychological Perspectives on Posttraumatic Stress (edited with Stephen Joseph, Wiley, 2007), and Average to A+: Realising Strengths in Yourself and Others (CAPP Press, 2008). He is also the editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work, together with colleagues Sue Harrington and Nicky Page.

Alex is an Associate Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Positive Psychology and the Journal of Positive Psychology, as well as Co-Editor of the International Coaching Psychology Review, and a regular reviewer for numerous journals, publishers, and grant awarding bodies.

Alex’s social entrepreneurship is dedicated to the social applications of positive psychology through CAPP, together with active involvement and support for CAPP’s charity partners, HOPEHIV and The Other Half Project.