Laura Renshaw-Vuillier

Dr Laura Renshaw-Vuillier

  • Principal Academic
  • Poole House P119, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

Laura completed her PhD in Psychology, Education and Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge in 2014. She then worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Cambridge Prosociality and Well-Being Lab where she looked at the relationship between emotions and well-being.

Laura is now a principal academic at Bournemouth University, where she works on understanding the role of emotions in mental health and illness, including eating disorders. She regularly talks to the radio to disseminate her work. For instance, she co-developed an emotion and well-being series for BBC radio Solent. One of her research projects funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme uses EEG to investigate the neural basis of emotion processing and regulation in eating disorders. She has also received funding by the NIHR to develop an intervention to help people with eating disorders better understand and manage their emotions. She also has a stream of work looking at the link between autism and eating disorders, as well as causes for orthorexia nervosa...

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Journal Articles

  • Vuillier, L., Greville-Harris, M. and Moseley, R.L., 2025. The risk of believing that emotions are bad and uncontrollable: association with orthorexia nervosa. Eating and Weight Disorders, 30 (1).
  • Vuillier, L., Wang, Z., Hassan, S., Harrison, A., Somerville, M.P. and He, X., 2025. Emotional overload in Bulimia Nervosa: an ERP study of emotion processing and regulation. Journal of Eating Disorders, 13 (1).
  • Vuillier, L., Greville-Harris, M. and Moseley, R.L., 2025. Correction to: The risk of believing that emotions are bad and uncontrollable: association with orthorexia nervosa (Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, (2025), 30, 1, (8), 10.1007/s40519-024-01710-3). Eating and Weight Disorders, 30 (1).
  • Greville-Harris, M., Vuillier, L., Goodall, S., Talbot, C.V., Walker, C. and Appleton, K.M., 2024. Striving for the perfect diet? The mediating role of perfectionism in the relationship between obsessive compulsive symptoms and traits of Orthorexia Nervosa. Journal of Eating Disorders, 12 (1).
  • Renshaw-Vuillier, L., 2024. Early evaluation of a DBT-informed online intervention for people with eating disorders. Journal of Eating Disorders.
  • Sun, R., Vuillier, L. et al., 2024. Emotional Experiences and Psychological Well-Being in 51 Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Emotion, 24 (2), 397-411.
  • Moseley, R.L., Atkinson, C., Surman, R., Greville-Harris, M., May, L. and Vuillier, L., 2023. Sex-specific mechanisms for eating disorder risk in men and women with autistic traits: the role of alexithymia. Journal of Eating Disorders, 11 (1).
  • Deplancke, C., Somerville, M.P., Harrison, A. and Vuillier, L., 2023. It’s all about beliefs: Believing emotions are uncontrollable is linked to symptoms of anxiety and depression through cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. Current Psychology, 42 (25), 22004-22012.
  • Greville-harris, M., Talbot, C.V., Moseley, R.L. and Vuillier, L., 2022. Conceptualisations of health in orthorexia nervosa: a mixed-methods study. Eating and Weight Disorders, 27 (8), 3135-3143.
  • Vuillier, L., Joseph, J., Greville-Harris, M., May, L., Somerville, M.P., Harrison, A. and Moseley, R.L., 2022. What about males? Exploring sex differences in the relationship between emotion difficulties and eating disorders. Journal of Eating Disorders, 10 (1).
  • Hui, B.P.H., Parma, L., Kogan, A. and Vuillier, L., 2022. Hot Yoga Leads to Greater Well-being: A Six-week Experience-sampling RCT in Healthy Adults. Psychosocial Intervention, 31 (2), 67-82.
  • Vuillier, L., May, L., Greville-Harris, M., Surman, R. and Moseley, R.L., 2021. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals with eating disorders: the role of emotion regulation and exploration of online treatment experiences. Journal of Eating Disorders, 9 (1).
  • Vuillier, L., Joseph, J., Somerville, M.P. and Harrison, A., 2021. Believing emotions are uncontrollable is linked to eating disorder psychopathology via suppression and reappraisal. Journal of Eating Disorders, 9 (1).
  • Vuillier, L., Carter, Z., Teixeira, A.R. and Moseley, R.L., 2020. Alexithymia may explain the relationship between autistic traits and eating disorder psychopathology. Molecular Autism, 11 (1).
  • Vuillier, L., Robertson, S. and Greville-Harris, M., 2020. Orthorexic tendencies are linked with difficulties with emotion identification and regulation. Journal of Eating Disorders, 8.
  • Sun, R., Vuillier, L., Deakin, J. and Kogan, A., 2020. Oxytocin increases emotional theory of mind, but only for low socioeconomic status individuals. Heliyon, 6 (3).
  • Pauw, L.S., Vu, T., Sun, R., Vuillier, L., Milek, A. and Sauter, D., 2020. Emotion Regulation and Wellbeing: A Cross-Cultural Study During the COVID-19 Outbreak.
  • Pavarini, G., Sun, R., Mahmoud, M., Cross, I., Schnall, S., Fischer, A., Deakin, J., Ziauddeen, H., Kogan, A. and Vuillier, L., 2019. The role of oxytocin in the facial mimicry of affiliative vs. non-affiliative emotions. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 109.
  • Algashami, A., Vuillier, L., Alrobai, A., Phalp, K. and Ali, R., 2019. Gamification risks to enterprise teamwork: Taxonomy, management strategies and modalities of application. Systems, 7 (1).
  • Sun, R., Vuillier, L., Hui, B.P.H. and Kogan, A., 2019. Caring helps: Trait empathy is related to better coping strategies and differs in the poor versus the rich. PLoS ONE, 14 (3).
  • Drosatos, G., Arden-Close, E., Bolat, E., Budka, M., McAlaney, J., Phalp, K., Vuillier, L. et al., 2018. Enabling Responsible Online Gambling by Real-time Persuasive Technologies. Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly.
  • Vuillier, L., Bryce, D., Szücs, D. and Whitebread, D., 2016. The maturation of interference suppression and response inhibition: ERP analysis of a cued Go/Nogo task. PLoS ONE, 11 (11).
  • Pincham, H.L., Wu, C., Killikelly, C., Vuillier, L. and Fearon, R.M.P., 2015. Social provocation modulates decision making and feedback processing: Examining the trajectory of development in adolescent participants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 58-66.
  • Vuillier, L., Hermens, D.F., Chitty, K., Wang, C., Kaur, M., Ward, P.B., Degabriele, R., Hickie, I.B. and Lagopoulos, J., 2015. Emotional processing, P50 sensory gating, and social functioning in bipolar disorder. Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, 46 (2), 81-87.
  • Vuillier, L., Whitebread, D. and Szucs, D., 2015. ERP evidence of cognitive strategy change in motivational conditions with varying level of difficulty. Neuropsychologia, 70, 126-133.
  • Pincham, H.L., Wu, C., Killikelly, C., Vuillier, L. and Fearon, R.M.P., 2015. Social provocation modulates decision making and feedback processing: Examining the trajectory of development in adolescent participants. DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, 15, 58-66.
  • Pincham, H.L., Matejko, A.A., Obersteiner, A., Killikelly, C., Abrahao, K.P., Benavides-Varela, S., Gabriel, F.C., Rato, J.R. and Vuillier, L., 2014. Forging a new path for Educational Neuroscience: An international young-researcher perspective on combining neuroscience and educational practices. Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 3 (1), 28-31.
  • Maheux, J., Vuillier, L., Mahfouz, M., Rouillard, C. and Lévesque, D., 2012. Modulation of haloperidol-induced patterns of the transcription factor Nur77 and Nor-1 expression by serotonergic and adrenergic drugs in the mouse brain. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 15 (4), 509-521.
  • Pincham, H.L., Killikelly, C., Vuillier, L. and Power, A.J., 2012. Examining the Expectation Deficit in Normal Aging. Journal of Neuroscience, 32 (4), 1143-1145.

Chapters

  • Algashami, A., Cham, S., Vuillier, L., Stefanidis, A., Phalp, K. and Ali, R., 2018. Conceptualising Gamification Risks to Teamwork within Enterprise. The Practice of Enterprise Modeling. The Practice of Enterprise Modeling. Springer.
  • Vuillier, L., Sinclair-Harding, L.D. and Whitebread, D., 2017. Neuroscience and Early Childhood Education. The International Handbook for Early Childhood Education & Development. Springer.

Conferences

Reports

Internet Publications

Posters

PhD Students

  • Damla Kuleli, (In progress)
  • Ruya Ilkin Sulutas, (In progress)
  • Abdullah Algashami, 2019. Software Engineering Framework for Agreeable and Evolvable Digital Motivation

Profile of Teaching UG

  • 2016-09 SciTech: L6 - Educational Psychology and Special Educational Needs
  • 2016-09 SciTech: L6 - Eating, Weight and Behaviour Change
  • 2016-09 SciTech: L6 - Applied Clinical Psychology
  • 2016-09 SciTech: L5 - Developmental and Clinical Psychology
  • Cultural Psychology
  • Emotion mental health and affective neursocience

Invited Lectures

  • Emotions in mental health, University of Cambridge, 01 Oct 2015 more
  • Career in Academia: why, when and how, Cambridge, 01 Nov 2014 more

Grants

  • A brief online emotion-based intervention to provide early support for adult patients with binge eating disorders awaiting NHS treatment: intervention acceptability, early feasibility and optimisation. (National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Research for Patient benefits (RfPB), 07 Jan 2025). Awarded
  • Dealing with feelings: disentangling emotional processing from regulation in females with bulimia nervosa (British Academy, 01 Jul 2019). Awarded
  • Exploring Emotion Processing and Sensory Gating in Bipolar Disorder (Australia Endeavour Research Fellowship, 01 Jan 2012). Awarded
  • The relationship between emotion regulation and inhibitory control in children: neural and behavioural analyses (University of Cambridge, 01 Oct 2009). Awarded

Journal Reviewing/Refereeing

  • International Review of Psychiatry, Anonymous peer review, 09 Apr 2019
  • SAGE Open, 01 Jan 2019
  • Brain Research Journal, Anonymous peer review, 20 Jun 2017
  • Human brain mapping, Anonymous peer review, 24 Mar 2017
  • Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, Anonymous peer review, 01 Jan 2014

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Emotions in eating disorders: what we know and what we're doing about it (15 May 2019)
  • Pint of Science coordinator (01 Jan 2013)
  • Service User Lead Teaching Sessions

Conference Presentations

  • ISRE, Alexithymia: the missing link between autism and eating disorders?, 01 Jul 2019, Amsterdam
  • Eating disorder conference, From illness to research: My road to recovery, 01 May 2019, Bournemouth
  • Reading Emotion, . The role of emotional experience and dysregulation in binge eating behaviour, 01 Jun 2016, Reading
  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Emotional Expression Follow Different Life Course Trajectories for Rich versus Poor Nations, 01 Feb 2015, Long Beach, California, USA
  • EARLI SIG metacognition, ., Emotion regulation and executive function: a new model based on strategies, 01 Aug 2014, Turkey
  • EARLI SIG16 Metacognition, The assessment of self-regulation in pre-school children: the validation of an observational instrument across 4 countries, 01 May 2009, Muenster, Germany

Attended Training

  • Limbic Brain Anatomy Course, 03 Apr 2017

Qualifications

  • PhD in Education and Psychology (University of Cambridge, 2014)
  • MSc in Neuropsychology (University of Toulouse, 2008)
  • BSc (Hons) in Molecular and Cellular Biotechnology (University of Toulouse, 2006)

Honours

  • Blitz talk (Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2015)
  • Guarantors of Brain travel grant (2014)
  • Fully funded scholarship to attend the Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Science (2013)
  • British Psychological Society Postgraduate Study Visit Grant (2012)
  • Cambridge Philosophical Society Research Studentship (2012)
  • Charles Slater Funds Research Grant (2012)
  • Experimental Psychology Society Study Visit Grant (2012)
  • University of Cambridge Hardship Fund (2012)
  • Fully funded studentship to attend the Visceral Mind Summer School (2011)
  • Guarantors of Brain travel grant (2011)

Memberships

  • Australian Awards Alumni Network, Member,
  • British Psychological Society, Member,
  • Darwin College Alumni Network, Member,

External Media and Press