Dr. Andrew Curran MB BaO BCh MRCPaedsI MRCPUK MRCPCH DipCH DRCOG
Andrew Curran completed training as a paediatric neurologist in 2000. His career up to then had encompassed 5 years in adult medicine and a full training in general practice along with his training in general paediatrics. Since 1996 he has trained in paediatric neurology and is at present completing a PhD thesis on traumatic brain injury in children. He works as a consultant paediatric neurologist at the Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool. His special interests in paediatric neurology lie in the fields of chronic neurological disability and autistic spectrum disorders.
In parallel with his medical training, Andrew has been working, initially in conjunction with Mr. Stephen Gill, consultant neurosurgeon, on a unified theory of brain functioning. This, together with his interest in humanist therapy and education methods, has led him to explore the degree to which conventional science, new educational philosophies and psycho-emotional care now merge and to use his knowledge to better understand the neuro-chemical and neuro-anatomical mechanisms of learning and psycho emotional care and how these can be best put into practice in educational and care environments. As a part of this he feels strongly that well conducted and rigorous scientific research into the theories and applications of emotional intelligence are central to producing advances in this field. Towards this aim he is part of a team from Manchester University that has just put forward a proposal to funding bodies to perform the first randomised controlled trial of an emotional intelligence intervention in the classroom.
He lectures widely to professional and lay groups in education and psycho-emotional care and is working on a book with a noted educationalist, Ian Gilbert, which will combine recent theories of neuroscience with modern theories of education and learning in the classroom.
He has also just finished writing a book on the neurobiological understanding of emotional intelligence which has been accepted in principle for publishing by Crowne House Publishers.