Professor Kathryn Greenwood
Professor of Clinical Pyschology
Director of the Sussex Mental Health Research Centre
Email: k.e.greenwood@sussex.ac.uk
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Meet the Sussex Mental Health Research Centre team and members.
Sussex Mental Health Research Centre Team | Psychology members | BSMS members | NHS members | Business School members | Education and SW members | Informatics members | Health Innovation Network members | Wider University members
Sussex Mental Health Research Centre Team
Dr Liat Levita
Deputy Director of Sussex Mental Health Research Centre
Reader in Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience
Email: l.levita@sussex.ac.uk
Dr Emma Howarth
Associate Professor in Child and Family Mental Health
Email: E.H Howarth@sussex.ac.uk
Psychology members
Ellen Thompson
Email: E.thompson@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- population and life course mental health
- mental health development
- anxiety
- depression
- life span development
- generational differences in mental health
- mental health inequalities
- mental and physical health co-morbidity/co-occurrence
- genetic and environment influences
- predictors and outcomes of common mental health problems.
Kathryn Lester
Email: K.lester@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- anxiety disorders (in children)
- emotionally-based school avoidance
- intervention development
- fear learning
- intergenerational transmission
- whole school approach to mental health
- teacher mental health.
Theodoros Karapanagiotidis
Email: t.karapanagiotidis@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- OCD
- PTSD
- anxiety disorders
- psychological therapies
- addictions.
Ryan Scott
Email: r.b.scott@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- how patterns of thought and ongoing experience shape mental health
- the links between maladaptive thinking styles, brain function, and vulnerability to disorders such as depression and anxiety.
Matt Easterbrook
Email: m.j.easterbrook@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- the modification of attentional and interpretational biases to target anxiety and related disorders.
Bryan Singer
Email: b.f.singer@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- social psy interventions to support mental health, especially among disadvantaged groups
- social psy processes that underpin MH.
Elizabeth Dunk
Email: e.dunk@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- parental mental health
- anxiety
- prevention
- parenting.
Abby Dunn
Email: abby.dunn@surrey.ac.uk
Interests:
- digital mental health
- ubiquitous technologies
- digital behaviours
- depression
- healthy ageing.
Elian Fink
Email: e.fink@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- young children’s mental health
- social relationships.
Megan Hurst
Email: m.hurst@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- body image and disordered eating (in general but also links with exercise/physical activity/sport).
Hans Crombag
Email: h.crombag@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- mental health, particularly how it intersects with drug and alcohol intoxication
- cognitive/volitional capacities, and their treatment in criminal law
- doctrines such as intoxicated offences, prior fault, and diminished responsibility, and how these shape assessments of culpability, responsibility, and treatment.
Raquel Nogueira Arjona
Email: R.Nogueira-Arjona@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- substance use and misuse
- shared risk factors underlying other mental health difficulties (e.g. PTSD, psychosis).
Graham Davey
Email: grahamda@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- anxiety disorders
- pathological worrying
- perseverative psychopathologies such as OCD.
Dr Giulia Poerio
Email: g.l.poerio@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- sleep disturbances
- depersonalisation/derealisation
- misophonia
- limerence.
Professor Helga Dittmar
Email: helgad@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- the impact of consumer culture media and values – especially body and materialistic ideals – on well-being, including self-identity, mental health and related behaviours (e.g. eating, exercise, cosmetic surgery, impulsive and compulsive buying and debt).
Maria Hadjimarkou
Email: m.hadjimarkou@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- sleep
- mental health conditions such as insomnia, etc.
Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn
Email: dc307@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- psychopharmacology
- emotion regulation
- models of antidepressant action in anxiety.
Dominique Makowski
Email: D.Makowski@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- neuropsychological assessment test development
- role of interoception and cognitive control deficits
- transdiagnostic models of psychopathology (HiTOP)
- dissociative disorders.
BSMS members
Stephen Naulls
Email: S.Naulls@bsms.ac.uk
Interests:
- addiction (specifically chemsex, poly substance use)
- psychosis
- neuroimaging
- public mental health
- sexualised drug use
- behavioural addictions.
Lisa Quadt
Email: l.quadt@bsms.ac.uk
Interests:
- brain-body interactions in mental health conditions.
Georgia Bell
Email: g.bell@bsms.ac.uk
Interests:
- mental health in older adults and people living with dementia.
Claire Lanaster
Email: c.lancaster@bsms.ac.uk
Interests:
- mental health during menopause
- the role this plays in cognitive and biological symptoms.
Sara Donetto
Email: s.donetto@bsms.ac.uk
Interests:
- participatory research and co-design in mental health.
Richard de Visser
Email: r.o.devisser@bsms.ac.uk
Interests:
- wellbeing and use of health services
- gender and cross-cultural analysis (incuding cultural adaptation).
Hugo Critchley
Email: h.critchley@bsms.ac.uk
Interests:
- neuropsychiatry and psychiatry of neurodevelopmental conditions, emotional dysregulation, and the expression of common psychological (anxiety depression, dissociation, insomnia) and somatic symptoms including pain fatigue
- translational development of novel bio-behavioral therapeutic interventions
- academic careers in psychiatry and mental health
- mental health policy.
Hussien Elkholy
Email: h.elkholy2@bsms.ac.uk
Interests:
- general adult psychiatry
- behavioural addiction
- neurodivergence
- women’s mental health.
Elizabeth Ford
Email: e.m.ford@bsms.ac.uk
Interests:
- mental health epidemiology
- risk prediction
- health inequalities
- mental health care in general practice.
Kate Alford
Email: K.Alford3@bsms.ac.uk
Interests:
- mental health in HIV populations
- stigma in health settings.
Carrie Llewellyn
Email: c.d.llewellyn@bsms.ac.uk
Interests:
- general mental health and wellbeing
- outcome measures.
NHS members
Oliver Dale
Email: o.dale@nhs.net
Mark Hayward
Email: mark.hayward5@nhs.net
Interests:
- voice hearing across the lifespan
- diagnoses and psychosis.
Dr Nina Lockwood
Email: N.Lockwood@bsms.ac.uk
Interests:
- early engagement strategies to prevent self-harm, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, with a particular focus on social determinants and approaches grounded in intersectionality.
- midlife women’s mental health and psychological wellbeing.
- psychosocial approaches to the prevention and treatment of common mental health conditions, underpinned by systemics and actively incorporating strategies to reduce stigma.
- place/community-based mental health interventions.
Daniel Bowler
Email: daniel.bowler@nhs.net
Dr Sam Robertson
Email: Sam.robertson6@nhs.net
Interests:
- PPI and involvement in research
- peer emotional labour and the peer workforce
- peer researchers in mental health research – inclusion, development, peer supervision
- holistic research (incorporating other research disciplines such as anthropology and sociology), recovery research, social recovery, narrative development and community research
- research management as a PPI co-app and peer research fellow
- process evaluation.
Nik Nikolic
Email: nik.nikolic@nhs.net, n.nikolic1@uni.bsms.ac.uk
Interests:
- psychosis
- neurodevelopmental conditions.
Rachel O’Brien
Email: rachel.obrien13@nhs.net
Interests:
- perinatal mental health
- infant mental health.
Lisa Page
Email: lisa.page22@nhs.net
Interests:
- public mental health
- climate change and mental health
- environment and mental health
- eating disorders.
Mary John
Email: m.john@surrey.ac.uk
Interests:
- child, adolescent and young peoples mental and physical health
- social recovery
- young people who are in care or have left care
- homelessness in young people.
Business School members
Emma Russell
Email: emma.russell@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- digitalisation of work and impact on mental health.
Massimo Contrafatto
Email: massimo.contrafatto@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- the financial and societal implications of mental health interventions, policies, actions and inactions
- the research on ‘accounting for impact’.
George MacKerron
Email: george.mackerron@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- subjective wellbeing (especially in relation to: work, Internet/smartphone use and the natural environment).
Education and SW members
Michelle Lefevre
Email: M.Lefevre@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- the mental health of children, young people and parents
- professionals understanding and working with children, families and adults in psychotherapeutic roles and/or within safeguarding scenarios.
Jeri L. Damman
Email: j.l.damman@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- birth parents in the child welfare system, many of whom are impacted by poor mental health (either contributing to child welfare concerns or as a result of the child welfare experience).
Reima Ana Maglajlic
Email: R.A.Maglajlic@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- supporting survivor research in mental health/foregrounding experiential knowledge of mental distress (informed by Mad Studies)
- community mental health services in conflict and post-conflict contexts
- support for peer initiatives in mental health and links between mental health and housing.
Informatics members
Adam Barrett
Email: adam.barrett@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- psychedelic states of consciousness and their interaction with mental health
- dimensions of experience and brain complexity measures in such states and their interaction with wellbeing.
Health Innovation Network members
Claire Rosten
Email: claire.rosten@nhs.net
Interests:
- anxiety
- depression
- OCD
- psychosis
- digital solutions.
Wider University members
Robin Banerjee
Email: robinb@sussex.ac.uk
Interests:
- social and emotional development of children and young people
- peer relationships
- whole-school and college approach to mental health and social and emotional learning.