Personal Statement
I am a Psychology lecturer and researcher, interested in social cognitive neuroscience and autism spectrum disorder. I completed a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Geoff Bird at Birkbeck, University of London, and supported by an ESRC studentship in 2014. The PhD research focused on self-other processes in social cognition and used a range of methods including behavioural training and neurostimulation methods.

Following a postdoc position at Aarhus University/ University of Sussex in 2015, I was awarded the prestigious ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellowship, which I completed at the Psychology department, University of Cambridge (2016-2019). In 2020, I took a Lectureship position at Liverpool Hope University.

I joined the psychology department at the University of Liverpool in September 2022.

Research Overview
My research interests lie at the intercept of social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. My work aims to address questions such as:

1) To what extent self and other representations overlap or should be distinguished during social interactions?
2) What role do individual differences play when self-other processes go awry?

To address these questions, my research combines behavioural and cognitive neuroscience methods. My goal is to gain a deeper understanding of key processes underlying social interactions both in typical and atypical populations such as autism and mirror-sensory synaesthesia.

My current work in autism spectrum disorder employs a mixed method approach and relates to issues around late diagnosis, autism in females, masking, mental health and wellbeing of autistic children and adults.

I would welcome enquiries from potential PhD students interested in these areas of research. I am also happy to host visiting students and researchers in our lab.