Asha Ladwa is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Mood Disorders Centre in the Psychology department at the University of Exeter. Asha’s research focuses on understanding how to improve access, engagement, and psychological treatments for adult depression. In her PhD at the University of Exeter she focused on understanding how psychological therapy works to reduce depression symptoms, and she is building on this in an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship to explore how to increase access, treatment engagement and outcomes for people from Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority (BAME) backgrounds.