Matthew Hotton – BSc, MSc, DClinPsy
Research Tutor
Dr Matthew (Matt) Hotton has been a Research Tutor at OXICPTR since August 2020. He also works in the Psychological Medicine Staff Support Service at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
Matt’s clinical and research interests include working with people experiencing visible difference resulting from congenital or acquired physical health conditions. To date, his research in this area has focused on understanding the psychosocial outcomes of people born with cleft lip and/or palate, craniofacial conditions and facial palsy, as well as identifying interventions to improve psychological wellbeing and adjustment to these conditions.
Matt has previously been the recipient of two research grants provided by the Vocational Training Charitable Trust Foundation, supporting his research into improving the psychological wellbeing of people with facial palsy through self-guided psychological interventions, and has chaired an international task-force in collaboration with Facial Palsy UK, focussing on designing clinical guidelines for the psychological support of people with facial palsy.
Matt enjoys being involved in projects to better understand and improve the wellbeing of NHS staff. He is a founder member of the Surgical Psychology and Performance Group, a multidisciplinary group focusing on research into the psychosocial factors involved in surgical performance and ways of improving the wellbeing of surgeons in UK. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic he established the ACP-UK Network for Staff Health and Wellbeing.
