People
People at the Centre for Applied Developmental Psychology.
Centre Directors
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| Name | Position | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
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Centre Director |
Child and adolescent health and mental health, children's understanding of biology and health, developmental disabilities, and children's interactions with animals | |
| Dr Vilas Sawrikar | Centre Deputy Director |
Evidence-based early intervention in youth mental health |
| Dr. Jessica Hafetz Mirman | Centre Associate Director |
Centre members: academic staff
| Name | Position | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
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Research Fellow |
Health messaging/educational programming | |
| Dr Timothy Bird | Research Fellow | |
| Dr Simona Di Folio | Research Fellow | |
| Dr Fiona Duffy | Lecturer | The development and treatment of adolescent eating disorders and the use of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) and mentalization in depressed or impulsive adolescents |
| Dr Karri Gillespie-Smith | Lecturer | |
| Dr Lisa-Christine Girard | Lecturer | |
| Dr Karen Goodall | Lecturer | Childhood adversity, attachment, emotion regulation and metacognition in relation to well-being. Positive psychology. |
| Dr Helen Griffiths | Senior Lecturer | Risk and resilience, particularly the role of attachment and mentalization, for complex psychopathology such as psychosis |
| Dr Rachel Happer | Senior Clinical Fellow | |
| Dr Susannah Johnston |
Teaching Fellow |
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| Dr Monja Knoll | Senior Teaching Fellow | |
| Dr Melina Nicole Kyranides | Early Career Fellow | |
| Dr Angus Macbeth | Lecturer | Perinatal Mental Health, Complex Psychopathology (Psychosis, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Personality Disorder), Developmental psychopathology, Data-linkage, Evidence-based mental health |
| Dr Bradley MacDonald | Postdoctoral Fellow | |
| Dr Charles Marley | Teaching Fellow | Community psychology; discourse analysis; critical perspectives on ADHD; the relation of social inequalities to mental health difficulties |
| Dr Janine Muldoon | Research Fellow | Life transitions (educational, developmental & personal), children's perspectives, emotional wellbeing & relationships, child-animal interactions |
| Dr Ingrid Obsuth | Lecturer | |
| Prof Ethel Quayle | Chair of Forensic Clinical Psychology | Internet sex offending, the role of abuse images in the offending process |
| Prof Matthias Schwannauer | Head of School, Health in Social Science | Attachment theory, affect regulation, mentalisation, reflective functioning and interpersonal stress in the context of the risk and resilience of psychosis and recurrent mood disorders in adults and adolescents |
| Dr Emily Taylor | Senior Lecturer | Psychological factors (e.g. perfectionism, attachment, affect regulation) in clinical interventions for children and adolescents, using scale development and qualitative inquiry |
Centre members: PhD students
| Rowena Piers | Maria Francisca Morales Larrazabal |
| Raahat Manrai | Hamdullah Tunc |
| Joana Esteves Craveiro de Oliveira | Dennis Relojo-Howell |
| Catalina Martin | Kate Leventhal |
| Lucia Dahlby | Jingni (Maggie) Ma |
| Emy Nimbley | Lisa Golds |
| Katherine Porter | Keith Evans |
| Emily Hennessy | Shalhavit Simcha Cohen |
| Aigli Raouna | Yijun Zhao |
| Pelin Lin | Cristian Alcaino |
| Asaly Skrenes | Melanie Phillips |
| Imogen Peebles | Tine Opitz |
| Lilli Clark | Laura Wauthier |
| Unaiza Uqbal | Xiaoshan Yin |
| Hasan Huseyin Ates | Liron Blajwajs |
| Jill Steele | Lucia Dahlby |
| Sarah Jamieson | Elaine Gray |
| Kiyoshi Bhuiyan |
Ercan Özdemir |