Dr. Urška Košir

Dr. Košir completed her DPhil in Experimental Psychology in 2021. Her doctoral work focused on the psychological adaptation of young cancer survivors. Urška explored the mechanisms of psychopathology in young survivors to answer questions such as why some survivors become depressed, anxious, or experience PTSD, and in what ways biology, environment, and personal characteristics interact in the development of mental health disorders. Urška employed mixed methods, from longitudinal data set analyses to qualitative examination of young survivors’ experiences. She hopes that her results will lead to the development of novel screening approaches as well as preventative measures in pediatric oncology settings. 

Website: https://urskakosir.netlify.com/

Emily Mcgann

Emily Mcgann was the Oxford University administrator for the KiVa (wellbeing and antibullying) programme as part of the Stand Together trial. Her role predominantly centered on recruitment and organising the vast amounts of information required to run a large multi-site study.

Naomi Rose

Naomi Rose was a Research Assistant in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. Within the oRANGE lab, Naomi supported Oxford’s branch of the multi-site Stand Together trial, evaluating the effectiveness of the KiVa anti-bullying programme.

Dr. Aoife O'Higgins

Dr Aoife O'Higgins' research focused on understanding the mechanisms which lead to poor educational and psychological outcomes for people who have experience multiple adversities in childhood, including children in care and refugee children. Specifically, she is interested in identifying risk and protective factors to inform the development of evidence based social interventions. Her work draws on methods from social epidemiology, developmental psychology, evaluation and social work. 
You can find her on Twitter @ohigginsaoife, where she leads a monthly chat called #CareConvos.
You can find more information about her work here  A full list of her publications is here

Dr. Michelle Degli Esposti

Michelle completed her DPhil in Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, in 2019.

Her DPhil was part of an innovative interdisciplinary project, combining History and Psychology, and investigating Childhood Adversity and Life-time Resilience. Her particular research focus was on better understanding life-course pathways of resilience following childhood maltreatment. 

Dr. Charlotte Booth

Charlotte completed her DPhil in Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, in 2019.
Her DPhil was based on the individual differences in environmental sensitivity. She was particularly interested in understanding the relationship between environmental stress and mental health outcomes, and the individual difference factors that moderate this relationship including personality factors and genotypic factors. She used data from the CogBIAS longitudinal study to investigate risk and resilience pathways to mental health outcomes in a cohort of 500 adolescents.

Dr. Elizabeth Braithwaite

Elizabeth completed her DPhil in Psychiatry, University of Oxford, in 2015.
Her D.Phil research focused on the effects of maternal depression during pregnancy on fetal and infant development. Her current research focuses on the effects of early life stress on the development of later mental health difficulties, and aims to further understand the biological mechanisms that underpin the development of psychological difficulties following stress exposure, and to identify factors which may protect against the development of such mental health difficulties in the context of early life stress. 

Dr. Tara Venkatesan

Tara was a PhD student in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University. Her cross-disciplinary doctoral work investigated the intersection of cognitive science and the arts. She conducted research with Professor Rhonda Hadi (University of Oxford, Saïd Business School) on how novel entertainment technologies, like haptic wearable devices, influence our sense of psychological connection to musicians. She also conducted research on why we like sad art with Professor Joshua Knobe (Yale University, Department of Psychology).

​ Eva Verhagen
Eva was a research assistant at the Oxford Centre for Children and Young People in Pain (OxCCYP) in association with the University of Oxford (2016), where her research focused on school functioning in children and adolescents with chronic pain. Her research attempted to identify factors that might influence school functioning, such as social relationships and sleep. Another research interest was the wellbeing of school-aged children and possible interventions that can influence wellbeing and associated factors.

Marwa El-Gaby

Marwa El-Gaby has previously been an educator in UK schools and other educational settings with experiences for over eight years. Prior to the MA Education degree at the University of Birmingham, she qualified as a secondary school mathematics teacher, and worked in the West Midlands of England for several years. Marwa has a BSc and MSc in Economics from the universities of Cardiff and Nottingham, respectively. 

As part of the Oxford Risk and Resilience, Genes & Environment (oRANGE) lab, Marwa's role involved  assisting with the research to evaluate the effectiveness of the KiVa programme which aims to reduce bullying in primary schools across the UK.