Dr. Lorraine Dacre Pool

Lorraine is a Chartered Psychologist and Principal Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She designed and published the CareerEDGE model of graduate employability and later developed the Employability Development Profile, both of which are in use in many universities nationally and internationally. She has particular expertise in the subject of Emotional Intelligence, which was the topic of her PhD research. Lorraine has published a number of articles on the subjects of graduate employability and EI and has co-edited a new textbook for the British Psychological Society publishers, Wiley-Blackwell, called ‘An Introduction to Emotional Intelligence’.