I completed my integrated Masters degree (MSci) in Psychology at the University of York in 2024, before obtaining departmental funding and starting my PhD at York in September 2024. While completing my integrated masters I held a range of positions such as Research Assistant, Peer Assisted Learning Leader and a play Worker role in a primary school.
My MSci dissertation investigated the relation between social anxiety, catastrophizing and disordered eating behaviours, and was supervised by Dr Alex Pike. Part of this project involved the creation of a questionnaire examining catastrophizing in the context of disordered eating, which I am hoping to validate as part of my PhD. My PhD focuses on the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and eating disorders, from a developmental perspective.
More broadly outside of my PhD I am interested in child development, particularly predictors for poor mental health, body image and current approaches to eating disorder treatment (especially in the UK).
Qualitative study reveals gap between how lived experience individuals and professionals conceptualise anorexia recovery; particularly around weight restoration and residual symptoms.
Do preschoolers who struggle with tolerating uncertainty get more anxious as they grow older? This longitudinal study followed preschool children across three timepoints, and found that the two are strongly related, but the rest of the picture is not as clear cut.
