Assoc. prof. Liz Gulliford (Northampton, UK)

Liz Gulliford is currently Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Northampton, UK. Liz's PhD (Queens' College, University of Cambridge, 2011) established a firm, critical foundation for interdisciplinary theoretical and practical work in positive psychology upon which she has progressively built an international reputation. Since completing her doctorate, she has carried out extensive conceptual and empirical work in positive psychology and moral education. She has a long-standing interest in research on character strengths and virtues, including gratitude, forgiveness, compassion, courage and hope, and her work has been published in a range of journals in psychology, education, and philosophy. She collaborated with David Carr, Kristján Kristjánsson, and others in the field of character education during her time as Research Fellow at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues (2012 – 2018).

A number of her contributions are worthy of mention; however, we narrow your attention to those publicatoins which are particularly related to ethical education in Slovakia:

Recent Work on the Concept of Gratitude in Philosophy and Psychology is one of the leading articles in the field of interdisciplinary virtue emotion research. This paper (Gulliford, Morgan & Kristjánsson, 2013) has been cited over 150 times and has become a key paper in gratitude research. A new approach to measuring moral virtues: The Multi-Component Gratitude Measure (Morgan, Gulliford & Kristjánsson, 2017) serves as an example of how to create a valid instrument to measure virtues in all their complexity. Finally, Phronesis and the knowledge-action gap in moral psychology and moral education: A new synthesis? tries to answer an old question by comparing two prominent models of moral phronesis / moral functioning: neo-Aristotelian and neo-Kohlbergian approaches (Darnell, Gulliford, Kristjánsson & Paris, 2019).

In the last years, alongside her academic publications, Liz has also written four story books for children aged 7 -12 that present the topics of forgiveness, gratitude, courage and hope in a critical yet accessible way https://uk.jkp.com/collections/author-liz-gulliford-pid-209979