Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 

NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Council 

Paul Aveyard

Carmen Piernas

Felicity Waite

Research Interests

I am interested in behavioural interventions for the management of disorders and disease. I have focused marginalised groups including ethnic minorities and people with mental health conditions. My expertise spans qualitative methods, feasibility testing and randomised controlled trials. 

Doctoral Project

My doctoral research aims to develop an intervention to manage obesity in people with serious mental illness. In 2019, I was awarded the Division of Medical Sciences doctoral scholarship. I also serve as a Junior Dean at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Education  

I trained in Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL. I then received two scholarships to study Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. I returned to UCL at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. In 2018, I joined Oxford.

Senior Hulme scholarship (2021), University of Oxford

Doctorate scholarship, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (2019), University of Oxford

Sackler Institute award (2016), King's College London 

Postgraduate scholarship (2015), Leverhulme Trade Charities Trust and King's College London

Co-lead, Individual Differences and Clinical Psychology core practical, BSc Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford (2021-22)

Assistant, Short Courses in Qualitative Research Methods, University of Oxford (2019-2022)