Karen Rodham is a Professor of Health Psychology at Staffordshire University. Her research focuses on understanding how people cope with difficult health-related situations. She has more than twenty years' experience of working as an academic in different universities. In addition, from 2006-2013 alongside her academic job, she worked as a practising health psychologist and led the Complex Regional Pain Syndrome psychology service for adults at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases. In her spare time she enjoys hill walking and uses her mountain leader qualification to teach young people about walking and camping safely in the hills. Karen Rodham is a Professor of Health Psychology at Staffordshire University. Her research focuses on understanding how people cope with difficult health-related situations. She has more than twenty years' experience of working as an academic in different universities. In addition, from 2006-2013 alongside her academic job, she worked as a practising health psychologist and led the Complex Regional Pain Syndrome psychology service for adults at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases. In her spare time she enjoys hill walking and uses her mountain leader qualification to teach young people about walking and camping safely in the hills. ...more