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Catalyst Seminar Series - Session six

Children and Young People’s Mental Health – Early Career Researcher Event

The sixth session was the inaugural Early Career Researcher event showcasing the excellent CYP MH science led by early career researchers at ϲ on Wednesday 7th July 2021. 

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    Programme:

    10.00 – 10.05 Welcome – Professor Essi Viding

    10.05 – 11.00 Flash Talks

    Chair: Professor Jon Roiser

    Speakers :

    • Dr Abigail Thompson, Research Associate, Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, ϲ. Talk title: 'The effects of cognitive control training on COVID-19 related mental health outcomes'
    • Dr Louise (Lenny) Neil, Research Associate in Developmental Psychopathology, ϲ Division of Psychology and Language Sciences. Talk title: 'Trust and childhood maltreatment: Evidence of bias in appraisal of unfamiliar faces'
    • Magda Dubois, PhD student, Max Planck ϲ Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research. Talk title: 'Exploration heuristics in development and impulsivity'
    • Dr Jeanne Wolstencroft, Research Fellow, ϲ Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. Talk title: 'New approaches to social skills training: Blended group interventions for girls with social communication difficulties'
    • Dr Sarah Griffiths, Language and Cognition, ϲ Division of Psychology and Language Sciences. Talk title: 'Words for Wellbeing: The role of language development in children’s mental health'
    • Dr Candela Sánchez Bellot, Research Fellow (Andrew MacAskill’s lab), Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, ϲ Division of Bioscience. Talk title: 'Investigating the role of the ventral hippocampus in a rodent model of early life adversity '
    • Madeleine Moses-Payne, PhD student, ϲ Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. Talk title: 'The impact of valence on self-referential processing during adolescence '
    • Dr Mia Eisenstadt, Research Associate, EBPU, a partnership between the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and ϲ and Psychology Lead, Paradym. Talk title: 'An absence of evidence or evidence of absence: the importance of evidence-based practice in child and adolescent mental health'

    11.00-11.20 Socialising & networking - on Gathertown

    11.20-12.00 Panel Discussion - “Where is the CYP MH research heading and what are the challenges and opportunities for ECRs at ϲ?”

    Panel members:

    • Dr Jessie Baldwin, Sir Henry Wellcome Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology
    • Dr Ramya Srinivasan, Wellcome Trust Clinical Training Fellow at ϲ Division of Psychiatry and Honorary Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at East London Foundation Trust
    • Dr Tobias U. Hauser, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Principal Research Fellow, Developmental Computational Psychiatry lab, Max Planck ϲ Centre for Computational Psychiatry & Ageing Research