Research summary

I am working as a Research  Associate on a Feasibility Study assessing young children within the  Neurodevelopment Assessment Unit (NDAU). The NDAU adopts the RDoC framework to assess each child across a wide range of experimental, psychophysiological and eye-tracking measures examining domains important fo learning and development, including language, cognition, emotional processing, social processing and motor skills. This research data will inform us about the underlying mechanisms inolved in emerging neurodevelopmental difficulties. The NDAU will also use the research data collected to provide a comprehensive developmental profile that is fed back to each child's school.

My main  research interest lies in understanding the development of antisocial behaviour so that we can ultimately develop individualised interventions, and I have  previously used observational, experimental, psychophysiological and  neuroendocrinological techniques to explore  antisocial behaviour. In addition, I am particularly interested in the development of callous/unemotional traits and psychopathy-like behaviours and the associated affective impairments.

My PhD was focused on  examining psychopathic individual’s autonomic responses to emotion across a  range of stimuli (affective scenes, sound-clips and facial expressions), which  I measured using changes in pupil diameter as an indicator of emotional  arousal.

Teaching summary

2015 – 2016:
Diploma tutor:  Took tutorial on scientific report writing and statistics.

2013 – 2016:
First year undergraduate PG tutor; teaching  tutorials, as well as marking assessed practical reports.