Profile

I love to crochet and knit as I find them very relaxing activities to do when I am not working or spending time with friends and family. I also love listening to True Crime podcasts, often when I’m crocheting or running!

Metacognition means “thinking about thinking”. Some people who have hallucinations think about and understand their hallucinations quite well. They know that other people cannot hear the voice they hear, for example. They know this is an experience that is unique to them, and not real for other people.

Other people may not understand the voice they are hearing is not real, and get upset that people cannot hear it or say it is not real. These people may have a mental health problem known as Psychosis. My research helps people to understand their thoughts and hallucinations, so they are not upsetting.

When I set up studies I often use online systems, either for questionnaires or memory tests.

When I look at data, I think about what results I expected to find and see if I was correct. I do this using maths (but the computer does most of the hard work for me).

When I have found out if I was correct, I write papers about what we did, what we found, and what this means. These then get published for other researchers to read, so they can see what we did!

I teach about mental health, so my lectures usually talk about mental health problems, how we can identify if someone is unwell, and what we can do to help them.