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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... She is currently looking for PhD students to supervise in these areas.

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Renshaw-Vuillier, L., 2024. Early evaluation of a DBT-informed online intervention for people with eating disorders. Journal of Eating Disorders.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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).
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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).
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Moseley, R. and Vuillier, L., 2020. Link between autism and eating disorders may be due to an inability to identify emotions – new research. The Conversation. Available from: https://theconversation.com/link-between-autism-and-eating-disorders-may-be-due-to-an-inability-to-identify-emotions-new-research-143022.
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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).
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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.
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Vuillier, L., 2020. Clean eaters tend to have difficulty managing their emotions. The Conversation. Available from: https://theconversation.com/clean-eaters-tend-to-have-difficulty-managing-their-emotions-129708.
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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).
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Pauw, L.S., Vu, T.-V., Sun, R., Vuillier, L., Milek, A. and Sauter, D., 2020. Emotion Regulation and Wellbeing: A Cross-Cultural Study During the COVID-19 Outbreak.
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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.
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Altuwairiqi, M., Arden-Close, E., Bolat, E., Renshaw-Vuillier, L. and Ali, R., 2019. When people are problematically attached to social media: How would the design matter? Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2019-October, 4211-4218.
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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).
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Journal Articles

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).
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Renshaw-Vuillier, L., 2024. Early evaluation of a DBT-informed online intervention for people with eating disorders. Journal of Eating Disorders.
- more information
- view in BU repository
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.
- more information
- view in BU repository
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).
- more information
- view in BU repository
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.
- more information
- view in BU repository
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.
- more information
- view in BU repository
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).
- more information
- view in BU repository
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.
- more information
- view in BU repository
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).
- more information
- view in BU repository
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).
- more information
- view in BU repository
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).
- more information
- view in BU repository
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.
- more information
- view in BU repository
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).
- more information
- view in BU repository
Pauw, L.S., Vu, T.-V., Sun, R., Vuillier, L., Milek, A. and Sauter, D., 2020. Emotion Regulation and Wellbeing: A Cross-Cultural Study During the COVID-19 Outbreak.
- more information
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.
- more information
- view in BU repository
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).
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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).
- more information
- view in BU repository
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.
- more information
- view in BU repository
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).
- more information
- view in BU repository
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.
- more information
- view in BU repository
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.
- more information
- view in BU repository
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.
- more information
- view in BU repository
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.
- more information
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.
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- view in BU repository
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.
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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.
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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.
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Vuillier, L., Sinclair-Harding, L.D. and Whitebread, D., 2017. Neuroscience and Early Childhood Education. The International Handbook for Early Childhood Education & Development. Springer.
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Conferences

Kuleli, D., Charles, F., Guo, L., Vuillier, L., Liu, C.H., Gregory, N. and He, X., 2024. Exploring Influence of Social Anxiety on Embodied Face Perception during Affective Social Interactions in VR. In: 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 16-19 September 2024 Glasgow.
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Tsampallas, V., Renshaw-Vuillier, L., Charles, F. and Kostoulas, T., 2023. Emotions and Gambling: Towards a Computational Model of Gambling Experience. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 254-258.
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Arden-Close, E., Bolat, E., Vuillier, L. and Ali, R., 2022. Perceptions of Interactive, Real-Time Persuasive Technology for Managing Online Gambling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13213 LNCS, 28-42.
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Altuwairiqi, M., Arden-Close, E., Bolat, E., Renshaw-Vuillier, L. and Ali, R., 2019. When people are problematically attached to social media: How would the design matter? Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2019-October, 4211-4218.
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- view in BU repository
Drosatos, G., Arden-Close, E., Bolat, E., Vuillier, L., McAlaney, J., Phalp, K. et al., 2018. Empowering responsible online gambling by real-time persuasive information systems. Proceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, 2018-May, 1-11.
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Algashami, A., Cham, S., Vuillier, L., Stefanidis, A., Phalp, K. and Ali, R., 2018. Conceptualising gamification risks to teamwork within enterprise. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 335, 105-120.
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Reports

Drosatos, G., Arden-Close, E., Bolat, E., Vuillier, L. and Ali, R., 2018. Gambling Behaviour Data and Modalities of Persuasive Interaction for Enabling Responsible Online Gambling. Bournemouth University.
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Vuillier, L. and Oakley, B., 2018. Emotional impulsivity drives subthreshold binge-eating in a cross-sectional sample of female students.. NA.
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Vuillier, L., 2017. Amount and diversity of digital emotional expression predicts happiness. NA.
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Internet Publications

Moseley, R. and Vuillier, L., 2020. Link between autism and eating disorders may be due to an inability to identify emotions – new research. The Conversation. Available from: https://theconversation.com/link-between-autism-and-eating-disorders-may-be-due-to-an-inability-to-identify-emotions-new-research-143022.
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Vuillier, L., 2020. Clean eaters tend to have difficulty managing their emotions. The Conversation. Available from: https://theconversation.com/clean-eaters-tend-to-have-difficulty-managing-their-emotions-129708.
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Posters

Vuillier, L., Carter, Z., Texeira, A. and Moseley, R., 2019. Alexithymia: the missing link between autism and eating disorders? In: ISRE.
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Carter, Z., Teixeira, A.R., Moseley, R. and Vuillier, L., 2019. Alexithymia: A Mediator Between Autistic Traits and Eating Disordered Behaviours? In: Emotions in Eating Disorders: What We Know and What We’re Doing About It.
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Drosatos, G., Nalmpantis, F., Baines, V., Bolat, E., Vuillier, L., Kostoulas, T., Arden-Close, E., McAlaney, J., Phalp, K. and Ali, R., 2018. A conceptual architecture for empowering responsible online gambling with predictive, real- time, persuasive and interactive intervention. In: The 13th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (Persuasive’18).
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PhD Students

Abdullah Algashami. 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

Darwin College Seminar series, University of Cambridge
Career in Academia: why, when and how, Cambridge, 01 Nov 2014 more

British Psychological Society Career Advice

Grants

Grants

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 & Press

External Media and Press

Emotion 4-week series, BBC Radio Solent, 01 Jan 2022. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_solent
• Expert view on how to tackle the link between COVID and Obesity, BBC Radio Scotland, 01 Mar 2021. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_scotland_fm
• Link between autism and eating disorders may be due to an inability to identify emotions, The Conversation, 01 Aug 2020. https://theconversation.com/link-between-autism-and-eating-disorders-may-be-due-to-an-inability-to-identify-emotions-new-research-143022
Clean eaters have difficulty managing their emotions, The Conversation, 01 Apr 2020. https://theconversation.com/clean-eaters-tend-to-have-difficulty-managing-their-emotions-129708