Dr Nicole Eisen
Staff details
Nicole is interested in the impact of mindfulness and compassion on mental health, wellbeing, and prosociality
I am a Lecturer in Psychology at Goldsmiths and a mindfulness and compassion teacher and mindfulness teacher-trainer.
Academic qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Psychology, King’s College London
- MA Philosophy of Religion, King’s College London
- BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Bath
Teaching and supervision
I can provide supervision for undergraduate and masters students wishing to undertake projects on mindfulness, compassion, or prosociality. I can supervise quantitative and qualitative projects. I am not currently taking PhD students.
In 2025/26, I am teaching on the following modules:
- Mental Health and Wellbeing 1
- Life and Society 1
- Applications of Psychological Research
- Professional and Personal Development 1
- Mental Health and Wellbeing 2
- Life and Society 2
- Research Methods and Statistics 2
- Clinical Psychology: Common Presentations and Interventions
- Understanding and Treating Psychological Disorders
Research interests
My research and teaching interests include:
• The science of meditation
• Research methods in meditation research
• The science of compassion
• The development of prosociality
• Transdiagnostic and third wave approaches
• Mindfulness as a therapeutic approach
• The mechanisms of mindfulness
• Mindfulness and compassion as foundations for those learning third wave therapeutic approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
• Mindfulness of dream and sleep (including lucid dreaming)
Featured publications
2022:
Effects of kindness- and compassion-based meditation on wellbeing, prosociality, and cognitive functioning in children and adolescents: A systematic r
Systematic Review
2022:
Young children’s conceptualisations of kindness: A thematic analysis.
Thematic Analysis
2023:
Cultivating prosociality in children: The potential of kindness- and compassion-based meditation.
Doctoral thesis
Professional projects
I am currently a trial therapist for the University of Cambridge on the ATTEND trial, a multi-site, large-scale, randomised-controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of an adapted form of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for adolescents with depression and their carers.
I am an Associate Trainer for Mindfulness in Schools Project.
I teach the following mindfulness-based courses:
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living
• The Mindfulness in Schools Project curricula