Research
Overview
Exploring the role of sleep in emotion processing and mental health.
Projects
I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate with a passion for understanding the associations between sleep, emotion regulation, and mental health. Specifically, I am interested in the cognitive mechanisms by which sleep supports emotion regulation and mental health. For example, how does sleep support the ability to implement adaptive emotion regulation strategies? And, how does a lack of sleep increase vulnerability to psychological disturbance?
To explore these questions, I use a wide range of methods such as self-report questionnaires, psychophysiology (skin conductance and heart rate), virtual reality, and polysomnography as well as statistical analysis techniques such as linear mixed modelling.
Research group(s)
Grants
- Postgraduate Bursary Award (£100). Awarded by the British Psychological Society. 2023.
- Grindley Grant for EPS conference attendance (£180). Award by the Experimental Psychology Society. 2023.
- Grindley Grant for EPS conference attendance (£161). Award by the Experimental Psychology Society. 2023.
- Travel Grant ($300). Awarded by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment for the 5th Oxford | Berlin Summer School on Open and Responsible Research in the Life Sciences. 2022.
- PhD Scholarship (£42622). Awarded by the University of York, 2020.
Collaborators
- Dr Scott Cairney
- Dr Cade McCall
- Professor Lisa-Marie Henderson
Teaching
Undergraduate
Graduate Teaching Assistant: University of York, Department of Psychology (October 2020- Present)
- Delivery of tutorials to 10-15 students enrolled on the BSc (Hons) in Psychology
- Marking of student essays and practical reports enrolled on the BSc (Hons) in Psychology
Postgraduate
- Supervision of mini projects including an MSci (Hons) Psychology final year project (Using Virtual Reality to Understand the Anxiety Impact of Sleep Deprivation)
Other teaching
Academic Assignment Tutor: University of York (June- July 2021, 2022, 2023)
- Worked with the University Access and Outreach team to provide one-to-one assignment support and feedback to students as they transition from A Level/BTEC to studying in Higher Education