My PhD research focuses on the relationship between different aspects of childhood adversity, brain development, and the emergence of mental health problems in adolescence. Specifically, the developmental underpinnings of anhedonia - a transdiagnostic symptom characterised by a loss of ability to respond to, learn about, and value rewards.

I primarily use behavioural and neuroimaging data from large longitudinal studies to investigate how different dimensions of adversity (i.e., threat vs deprivation) might influence trajectories of brain development and later mental health risk.