Professor Lucy Bowes
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Professor Lucy Bowes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology and the Principal Investigator of the oRANGE Lab. Lucy graduated with a BA Hons in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University in 2004. She was awarded a PhD in Behavioural Genetics in 2011 from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Lucy is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology, and was appointed as a Fellow of Magdalen College in 2014. She tutors in prelims Psychology and Part 1 Individual Differences and Psychological Disorders. Lucy has received awards from the Medical Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council, UK. Her research on school bullying has been supported by the Jacobs Foundation, and her current work on resilience to harsh, non-supportive parenting is supported by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.
Lucy’s research focuses on the impact of early life stress on psychological and behavioural development. In particular, Lucy has focused on the effects of victimization on young people’s adjustment and wellbeing. Her research integrates methods from social epidemiology, developmental psychology and behavioural genetics in order to understand the complex genetic and environmental influences that promote resilience to victimization and early life stress. The aim of her work is to guide intervention work by identifying protective factors that promote positive outcomes among vulnerable children. Email: lucy.bowes@psy.ox.ac.uk |
Dr. Julia Badger
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Dr Julia Badger is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Experimental Psychology. Julia is also a Lecturer for the Department and the Psychology Tutor for Harris Manchester College. Her work in the oRANGE lab focuses on using virtual reality technologies to investigate how adolescents respond psychologically and physiologically to bullying situations. The work assesses whether adolescents at risk of depression, anxiety and / or psychosis are more likely to exhibit hostile interpretations and heightened reactions. This work forms part of a larger study into factors associated with resilience and mental health. Julia is also part of the first U.K. multi-site KiVa (anti-bullying) programme research study to evaluate the effectiveness of KiVa in reducing bullying & victimisation in primary schools.
Julia also leads a global virtual reality network (Virtual Minds) to link researchers, practitioners and developers working with applied virtual reality. She graduated with a BSc Hons in Human Psychology and an MRes in Psychological Research Methods with a specialisation in Cognitive Neuroscience. In 2011, she was awarded a PhD in Child Development from Aston University. Following her PhD she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in a Family Assessment Service based at the Anna Freud Centre, London, following up the psychological well-being of children who had gone through court proceedings. Since moving to Oxford in 2013, Julia’s work has been primarily focused on co-developing educational tools to identify children’s academic potential and to work with those children who are underachieving at school relative to their potential. Julia (nom de plume Julia Tedd) published her first children's book - Night-time Cat - in 2019 and her second children's book - Box Cat - in 2020. They are the first two books in a planned series which aims to subtly expose children to complex grammar structures to encourage early implicit acquisition (see juliatedd.com). Email: julia.badger@psy.ox.ac.uk Twitter: @JuliaRBadger LinkedIn: JuliaBadger |
Dr. Sînziana Oncioiu
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Dr. Sînziana I. Oncioiu is a Calleva Centre Postdoctoral Research Associate at Magdalen College since December 2020. Her work in the oRANGE lab focuses on using secondary data to better understand the stability and change in peer victimization experiences across childhood and adolescence in relation to both risk and protective factors.
Sînziana obtained a Pharmacist degree from ‘Carol Davila’ University in Romania and a Master of Science in Public Health Epidemiology from Karolinska Institute in Sweden. She was awarded a PhD in Public Health Epidemiology from the University of Bordeaux in France in 2020. Previously she worked as a trainee for the European Commission and the European Society for Prevention Research on projects related to the prevention of substance use at European level. Sînziana has a strong interest in child and adolescent social relationships and their impact on mental health, developmental psychology, life course epidemiology, causal inference, intervention research, and the uptake of scientific evidence into policy-making. E-mail: sinziana-ioana.oncioiu[at]magd.ox.ac.uk Researchgate.net |
Carolina Guzman Holst
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Carolina Guzman Holst is a DPhil student in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University. Her doctoral work focuses on building a contemporary model of risk and resilience for adolescent peer victimisation using longitudinal analysis and experimental design. Specifically, she is interested in understanding how social, emotional and cognitive mechanisms interact with key biological systems to predict functioning in adolescents with a history of childhood bullying. To this end, she is using virtual reality to identify specific risk and protective pathways between bullying and psychological outcomes such as depression and anxiety. Her goal is to establish mechanisms that can be used to promote resilient outcomes across the life course and inform interventions for vulnerable adolescents.
Carolina graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Brown University and a Master of Science in Psychological Research from Oxford University. Her current DPhil work forms part of the “Changing Lives” project funded by the Calleva Foundation, which seeks to understand the life-long impact of early-life adversity and identify risk and protective factors that contribute to resilience across the life-course. Email: carolina.guzmanholst@magd.ox.ac.uk |
Mirela Zaneva
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Mirela Zaneva is a DPhil student in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University. Her doctoral work focuses on applying advanced statistical methods from a range of disciplines, such as social epidemiology, behavioral genetics, and economics in order to investigate the impact of socioeconomic inequalities and material deprivation on health in young people. She is passionate about open science, data visualization, and new quantitative methods. Mirela graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Research Master’s in Psychology from the University of Amsterdam. She enjoys interdisciplinary work and has research experience in neurocriminology, computational linguistics, behavioral ecology, public health and financial consulting. She is always open to collaborations – get in touch! Email: mirela.zaneva@psy.ox.ac.uk |
Emily Mcgann
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Emily Mcgann is the Oxford University administrator for the KiVa (wellbeing and antibullying) programme as part of the Stand Together trial. Her role predominantly centres on recruitment and organising the vast amounts of information required to run a large multi-site study. Emily’s path to the oRANGE lab has been circuitous. Graduating from Cardiff University with a BSc in Biology and completing an MPhil in Biosciences (Genetics) from the same University she was employed as the receptionist for the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Here she was able to learn about the vast array of research being conducted within the department. She is passionate about all forms of research that helps to promote mental well-being, particularly projects that bridge the gap between research and practical interventions or policy changes. Emily volunteers with a local mental health charity and is also looking into training as a psycho-dynamic therapist. Email: emily.butcher@psy.ox.ac.uk |
Naomi Rose
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Naomi Rose is a Research Assistant in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. Within the oRANGE lab, Naomi supports Oxford’s branch of the multi-site Stand Together trial, evaluating the effectiveness of the KiVa anti-bullying programme.
Before joining the oRANGE lab, Naomi was a researcher within the Language, Literacy and Psycholinguistics research group at Nottingham Trent University investigating orthographic awareness and spelling skills of children with Developmental Language Disorder. Naomi is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society following her BSc in Experimental Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Bristol, and a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Alongside her MSc in Speech and Language Therapy at Manchester Metropolitan University, Naomi worked as a Research Assistant at LuCiD (The ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development). Naomi is particularly interested in interdisciplinary projects bridging research and practice. Email: naomi.rose@psy.ox.ac.uk |
Tara Venkatesan
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Tara is a PhD student in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University. Her cross-disciplinary doctoral work investigates the intersection of cognitive science and the arts. She conducts 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 conducts research on why we like sad art with Professor Joshua Knobe (Yale University, Department of Psychology). Prior to moving to Oxford, Tara obtained a Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science from Yale University. While at Yale, she studied folk beliefs about authenticity in music and was also a research assistant with the Yale Infant Cognition Centre. She has also spent three years conducting infant psychology research with the Harvard Laboratory of Developmental Studies with Professor Elizabeth Spelke. When she’s not in the lab, she uses her research insights to consult for music tech companies and is also a professional opera singer. |