Meet Our Team
Readers
Dr Hannah Jones : Reader in Forensic Psychology & Mental Health and Unit Co-Lead
Dr Afia Ali : Clinical Reader in Intellectual Disability Psychiatry
Dr Nikolina Jovanović : Clinical Reader in Perinatal Psychiatry
Senior Lecturers
Dr Alexandra Burton: Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Research and Unit Co-Lead
Dr Catherine Carr: Senior Clinical Lecturer in Music Therapy
Dr Lydia Poole: Senior Lecturer in Mental Health
Dr Sania Shakoor: Senior Lecturer in Mental Health
Dr Natalie Shoham: Senior Clinical Lecturer
Dr Maria Turri: Senior Lecturer in Creative Arts and Mental Health
Lecturers
Dr Tanya Bailey: Lecturer in Mental Health
Dr Federica Biotti: Lecturer in Mental Health
Dr Sally Evans: Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and Mental Health
Dr Kate Hodgkin: Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and Mental Health
Dr Jennifer Hopton: Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and Mental Health
Dr Georgina Mathlin: Lecturer in Mental Health
Dr Andrea Palinski: Lecturer in Mental Health
Dr Tessa Roberts: Lecturer in Mental Health
Dr Alan Underwood: Lecturer in Forensic Mental Health
Dr Simpson Wong: Lecturer in Mental Health
Research staff
Dr Henry Aughterson - Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Stacey Jennings - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Erin Lawrence - Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Hannah Lewis - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Anna Ligouri – Research Assistant
Juan Marin – Trial Coordinator
Laura Miller – Programme Manager
Dr Maria Niedernhuber - Postdoctoral Research Associate
Abimbola Oroyinin – Research Assistant
Renata Peppl – Programme Manager
Onaiza Qureshi – Trial Manager
Sana Sajun – Trial Manager
PhD students
Project: Experiences of Postpartum Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence with Serious Mental Health Illness
Project: Domestic Abuse, Mental Health and Recovery Among South Asian Migrant Women in Newham: A Place Based Qualitative Study
Project: Modifiable dementia risk factors and dementia care provision for people living with severe mental illnesses
Abi Kemsley
Project: Exploring the role of facial trauma clinics as ‘reachable ‘moments in improving support and outcomes for survivors of intimate partner violence
Project: For whom does Arts on Prescription work and why?
Project: Which outcomes matter most? Comparing conceptualisations of recovery from psychosis in the Global South: A mixed methods project
Project: Developing the theoretical basis for group art therapy with adults with learning disabilities and mental distress: A mixed-methods approach using co-research with lived experience
Project: Depression and Inflammation in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and End Stage Kidney Failure (ESKF): Integrating Evidence and Lived Experience