Academic staff

Academic staff at the Centre for Applied Developmental Psychology.

Dr Stella Chan - Chancellor's Fellow  stella.chan@ed.ac.uk

Research interests:  Risk and resilience for depression and mood disorders more info

 

Dr Jill Cossar - Lecturer jill.cossar@ed.ac.uk

Research interests:  Research interests: Child protection and maltreatment; neurosequential model of therapeutics more info

 

Dr Fiona Duffy - Senior Teaching Fellow  fiona.duffy@ed.ac.uk

Research interests:  The development and treatment of adolescent eating disorders and the use of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) and mentalization in depressed or impulsive adolescents

 

Dr Nuno Ferreira - Lecturer  nuno.ferreira@ed.ac.uk

Research interests:  Third-wave CBT across all developmental stages more info

 

Dr Helen Griffiths - Senior Teaching Fellow  helen.griffiths@ed.ac.uk

Research interests:  Research interests: Risk and resilience, particularly the role of attachment and mentalization, for complex psychopathology such as psychosis more info

 

Dr Charles Marley - Teaching Fellow  charles.marley@ed.ac.uk

Research interests:  Community psychology; discourse analysis; critical perspectives on ADHD; the relation of social inequalities to mental health difficulties more info

 

Dr Ethel Quayle - Senior Lecturer  ethel.quayle@ed.ac.uk

Research interests:  Internet sex offending, the role of abuse images in the offending process more info

 

Professor Matthias Schwannauer - Head of Clinical & Health Psychology  m.schwannauer@ed.ac.uk

Research interests:  Attachment theory, affect regulation, mentalisation, reflective functioning and interpersonal stress in the context of the risk and resilience of psychosis and recurrent mood disorders in adults and adolescents more info

 

Dr Emily Taylor - Lecturer  emily.taylor@ed.ac.uk

Research interests:  Psychological factors (e.g. perfectionism, attachment, affect regulation) in clinical interventions for children and adolescents, using scale development and qualitative inquiry more info

 

Dr Jo Williams - Senior Lecturer  jo.williams@ed.ac.uk

Research interests:  Child and adolescent health and mental health, children's understanding of biology and health, developmental disabilities, and children's interactions with animals more info

 

Dr Angus MacBeth -  Lecturer   angus.macbeth@ed.ac.uk

Research interests: Perinatal Mental Health, Complex Psychopathology (Psychosis, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Personality Disorder), Developmental psychopathology, Data-linkage, Evidence-based mental health.