Michal qualified with an MSc in Clinical Psychology in 2008, and is currently working on her PhD. She has worked in a variety of settings, both in the UK and overseas, in residential care and community settings, as well as leading and implementing national projects overseas.
Michal Herz is the Head of Education and a Senior Lecturer at the Association for Dementia Studies, joining in 2014. Underpinning Michal’s work is the wish to develop an understanding of the complexity and diversity dementia can bring to the person living with it, their relatives and professional care services. She has worked internationally and with people from diverse cultural backgrounds and has experience in developing projects and tools in a cross cultural and international context.
Qualifications
Michal is currently undertaking her PhD at the University of Worcester entitled “And then there were three: A qualitative exploration of incorporating a live-in care-worker into the home of a couple where one spouse has dementia”
2016: Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Educations – University of Worcester
2006: MSc. Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology, Anna Freud Institution, UCL, London
2005: Advanced Mapper Diploma. Bradford University, Dementia Care Mapping
2004: Post-Graduate Diploma, Psychodynamic Approaches to Later Life. Tavistock & Portman Institution, London
2001: BA, Psychology and Jewish Philosophy (Hons.) Bar-Ilan University, Israel. September 2001