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 Vuillier leads a programme of research focused on emotion‑centred mechanisms and interventions in mental health, with a particular emphasis on eating disorders.

Laura’s research examines how beliefs about emotions, emotion identification, and emotion regulation contribute to the development and maintenance of eating disorders, and how targeting these processes through emotion‑focused interventions can support recovery.

Laura completed her PhD in Psychology, Education and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge in 2014 and subsequently worked as a post‑doctoral researcher in the Cambridge Prosociality and Well‑Being Lab, where she investigated the role of emotions in psychological wellbeing.

She has received funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust to investigate the neural bases of emotion processing and regulation in eating disorders using EEG, and from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to develop and evaluate emotion‑based interventions to help people with eating disorders better understand and manage difficult emotions, particularly during treatment waiting periods...

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Journal Articles

  • Vuillier, L., Greville-Harris, M., 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., 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., 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., 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., Balabanova, A., Bajada, C.J., Liu, Y., Kriuchok, M., Voolma, S.R., Đurić, M., Mayer, C.H., Constantinou, M., Chichua, M., Li, C., Foster-Estwick, A., Borg, K., Hill, C., Kaushal, R., Diwan, K., Vitale, V., Engels, T., Aminudin, R., Ursu, I., Fadhlia, T.N., Wu, Y.J., Sekaja, L., Hadchity, M., Deak, A., Sharaf, S., Figueras, P., Kaziboni, A., Whiston, A., Ioumpa, K., Montelongo, A., Pauw, L., Pavarini, G., Vedernikova, E., Vu, T.V., Nummenmaa, L., Cong, Y.Q., Nikolic, M., Olguin, A., Hou, W.K., Israelashvili, J., Koo, H.J., Khademi, S., Ukachukwu, C.G., Juma, D.O., Kamiloğlu, R.G., Makhmud, A., Lunga, P.S., Rieble, C., Rizwan, M., Helmy, M., Vuillier, L., Manokara, K., Quezada, E.C., Tserendamba, D., Yoshie, M., Du, A.H., Philip-Joe, K., Kúld, P.B., Damani, K., Osei-Tutu, A., Sauter, D., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., Moseley, R.L., 2020. Alexithymia may explain the relationship between autistic traits and eating disorder psychopathology. Molecular Autism, 11 (1).
  • Vuillier, L., Robertson, S., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., Nalbadis, F., Arden-Close, E., Baines, V., Bolat, E., Kostoulas, T., Budka, M., Wasowska, S., Bonelo, M., Brown, J., Corner, T., McAlaney, J., Phalp, K., Ali, R., Vuillier, L., 2018. Enabling Responsible Online Gambling by Real-time Persuasive Technologies. Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly.
  • Vuillier, L., Bryce, D., Szücs, D., 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., 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., Wu, C., Killikelly, C., Vuillier, L., 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., 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., Szucs, D., 2015. ERP evidence of cognitive strategy change in motivational conditions with varying level of difficulty. Neuropsychologia, 70, 126-133.
  • Pincham, H.L., Matejko, A.A., Obersteiner, A., Killikelly, C., Abrahao, K.P., Benavides-Varela, S., Gabriel, F.C., Rato, J.R., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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
  • 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

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)
  • University of Cambridge Hardship Fund (2012)
  • Cambridge Philosophical Society Research Studentship (2012)
  • Experimental Psychology Society Study Visit Grant (2012)
  • British Psychological Society Postgraduate Study Visit Grant (2012)
  • Charles Slater Funds Research Grant (2012)
  • Fully funded studentship to attend the Visceral Mind Summer School (2011)
  • Guarantors of Brain travel grant (2011)

Memberships

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

External Media and Press

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