Research

My research is mostly focused on child and adolescent eating disorders and gender diversity. ​

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Within eating disorders, this is mostly focused on developing and adapting treatments for young people and their families when things feel stuck or are not progressing in first-line treatments. This has included designing and evaluating novel treatment programmes such as multi-family therapy, adapting Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for adolescents, and integrating Attachment-Based Family Therapy for adolescents with eating disorders. My most recent research has focused on investigating change processes within our current treatments – trying to better understand how they work and for whom - not just whether they do or not. 

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Within gender, my research is focused on better understanding the needs of gender diverse young people and their support networks. 

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If you are interested in doing a research degree (MSc, DClinPsych, PhD) with me, get in touch. See also current PhD opportunities below​