Centre for Innovation in Mental Health

Our people

Learn about our researchers and their expertise. Explore research interests, publications, contact details and more.

Dr Gaby Pfeifer CPsychol, FHEA

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Interoception and psychophysiological processes across the lifespan.
  • The relationship between interoception, personality and emotional processing.

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Hanna Kovshoff

Professor

Research interests

  • https://acorns-soton.org.uk
  • Developing and using novel and creative methodologies to access the views and voices of neuro…

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr James Hall CPsychol, AFBPsS, FHEA, FRSA

Associate Prof. Psychology of Education

Research interests

  • Early Childhood Education and Care
  • Developmental Psychopathology
  • Educational Effectiveness

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Jana Kreppner

Professor

Research interests

  • Jana's work focusses on the impact of early experience on development. She is particularly in…
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Dr Jayne Morriss

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Transdiagnostic dimensions (e.g. intolerance of uncertainty, neuroticism)
  • Key processes in anxiety (e.g. safety learning, habituation, interpretation bias)
  • Multimethod approach (e.g. skin conductance, facial electromyography, self-report, action ten…
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Mrs Jennifer Tarabay

Research interests

  • Intergenerational trauma and coping, Family and systemic approaches 
  • Global mental health, Refugee mental health, Homelessness 
  • Culturally informed assessments and interventions
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Mr Juan Mertel Morillo

Senior Teaching Fellow
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Professor Katherine Newman-Taylor

Prof of Clinical Psychology and CBT

Research interests

  • CBT and mindfulness for psychosis
  • Attachment based interventions for psychosis
  • Recovery approaches to living well with severe mental ill-health

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Lasara Kariyawasam PhD, CPsychol

Lecturer in Psychology

Research interests

  • Cross-cultural barriers and seeking mental health support and accessing justice
  • Compassion focussed therapy
  • Adolescent mental health
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