Paolo Canonica

MA(Cantab) MSc PGCE Cpsychol AFBPsS

Paolo has worked in management consulting, in industry, and for the past 18 years has taught in some of the country’s top independent secondary schools. In that time he has been a science teacher, a psychology teacher, school counsellor, and master in charge of learning. He has counselled dozens of children from years 7 to 13. As a chartered Teaching & Research psychologist, Paolo has investigated the relationship between pupils’ study habits, their home environment, and their academic success by conducting extensive surveys in an effort to back up with evidence the advice that parents so desperately want. He regularly runs seminars for parents and children about study skills, good study habits and ways to support children at home.

Paolo has an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and an MSc in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics. He is a qualified teacher and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

He has three children of his own on whom he regularly experiments.