Bonnie Auyeung
Reader

- Psychology
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 3451
- Email: Bonnie.Auyeung@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room S30, Psychology Building
- City
- 7 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JZ
Background
Bonnie Auyeung is Reader and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh where her work is focused around two central themes: 1) the role of prenatal factors on psychological and neural postnatal development and 2) interventions to alleviate the symptoms of developmental difficulties. Prior to her current role, Bonnie worked at the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge where she remains Director of Psychoneuroendocrinology. Before joining Cambridge, Bonnie was a graduate researcher at the University of California (Los Angeles). Her research took place through the Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization Program at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and focused on development of attention measures for young children.
Bonnie is also the School Knowledge Exchange and Impact Director.
For further information search http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/
Undergraduate teaching
Teaching: Year 2 Developmental Psychology
Student consulation by appointment
Areas of interest for supervision
I accept applications from potential PhD students. I also co-supervise students with Dr Nicolas Chevalier and Dr Aja Murray.
Current PhD students supervised
Research summary
Early child development (social and cognitive development), COVID-19 effects on pregnancy and child development, Developmental Disorders, Autism, ADHD, Epilepsy, neural development, sex differences, early deprivation, prenatal development, adolescent development
Research activities
- Risk and protective mechanisms and factors in development
- Prenatal and postnatal hormones in Autism: What are the links?
- Prenatal and postnatal hormone effects in early childhood and in Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Autism Spectrum Disorders: Current conceptualisations
- Sex differences in development, function and disorders of the brain
Current project grants
2022-2027 UK Economic and Social Research Council (PI). The COVID-19 Health Impact on Long-term Child Development in Scotland (CHILDS) study.
2020 Data Driven Innovation Initiative (PI). Born in a pandemic: a linked administrative data study of children born during the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.
2019-2023 Marie Curie Innovative Training Network (UoE PI). Neo-PRISM-C (NEurodevelopmental Optimal-Predictors, Risk factors, and Intervention from a Systems approach to Maladjustment in Children).
2019-2022 Baily Thomas Charitable Fund (PI). Understanding the effects of prenatal maternal infections on developmental outcomes, autism spectrum disorder and learning disabilities.
Past project grants
2017-2019 Research Council of Norway Programme for Environmental Research for a Green Transition (Collaborator). Prenatal exposure to toxicants and childhood neurodevelopmental disorders and cognitive functions (NeuroTox).
2016-2019 Economic & Social Research Council Open Research Area award (Co-Applicant). Supporting cognitive and academic development in children at risk: Metacognitive executive function training in children from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
2015–2016 Child Brain Research Seed Corn funding (Co-Applicant). The structural basis of cognitive impairment associated with early onset childhood epilepsy.
2015–2016 University of Edinburgh Academic Networking Fund (Co-Applicant). Building Bridges Between University of Edinburgh Schools.
2014–2017 Autism Research Trust (Co-Applicant). Investigations of the neurobiology of autism: Genetics, brain and hormones.
2010–2013 Wellcome Trust Project Grant (Co-Applicant). Fetal testosterone effects on brain development.
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Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in Scottish neonates 2020-2022: a national, population-based cohort study
In:
Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2022-324713
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
A population-based matched cohort study of major congenital anomalies following COVID-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection
In:
Nature Communications, vol. 14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35771-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Maternal metabolic syndrome in pregnancy and child development at age 5: Exploring mediating mechanisms using cord blood markers
In:
BMC Medicine, vol. 21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-02835-5
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Pregnancy outcomes following SARS-CoV-2 infection in Delta and Omicron dominant periods in Scotland: A population-based cohort study
In:
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, vol. 10, pp. 1129-1136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(22)00360-5
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Maternal cardiometabolic markers in pregnancy on child emotional and behaviour trajectories
Research output: › Preprint (Published) -
Longitudinal invariance of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire across ages 4 to 16 in the ALSPAC sample
In:
Assessment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911221128948
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
A population-based matched cohort study of early pregnancy outcomes following COVID-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection
In:
Nature Communications, vol. 13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33937-y
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Cohort profile: The Covid-19 in pregnancy in Scotland (COPS) dynamic cohort of pregnant women to assess effects of viral and vaccine exposures on pregnancy
In:
International Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 51, pp. e245-e255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab243
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Publisher Correction: Brain charts for the human lifespan
In:
Nature, vol. 610, pp. E6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05300-0
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Using network analysis to illuminate the intergenerational transmission of adversity
In:
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2022.2101347
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)