Personal Statement
Charlotte is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Psychology Department at University of Liverpool, funded by Leverhulme Trust. Within the broader Psychology Department, Charlotte is based in both the Lifespan, Health, and Wellbeing and Forensic, Investigative, and Conflict Psychology research groups. Charlotte's work falls under the field of behavioural analytics. More specifically, her research primarily involves using computational language analysis methods (i.e., analysing the way in which people use words, using sophisticated automated tools) to understand people's motivations, behaviour, and underlying psychology. Charlotte's current work is focused on applying computational linguistic methods to the study of personality, identity, suicide, self-harm, psychopathology, and emotion. During her Fellowship, Charlotte is specifically applying these methods to the study of narrative identity and personality functioning, by computationally analysing how people tell their life stories. Charlotte's general research interests include (but are not limited to): personality psychology; individual differences; mental health; identity; social processes; narrativity; behavioural science.