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• Interventions for mood and cognitive recovery after stroke: music based interventions; positive psychotherapy
• Sleep difficulties following brain injury
• Implementation of evidence based care 
• Cognitive rehabilitation interventions (eg Goal Management Training) inc. functional imaging of their effects
• Neuropsychological assessment of attention, memory and executive functions in the context of brain injury and healthy ageing

I am analysing subtle symptoms of cerebral SVD in in relation to imaging correlates, which is important in order to translate radiological evidence of ‘silent’ SVD into clinically significant outcomes. I am characterising these symptoms in relation to progression of SVD radiologically based on longitudinal disease progression on MRI. This work will allow us to identify those individuals with early features of SVD, before significant disease progression occurs. Identifying the disease early will be central to future dementia and stroke prevention. I am currently involved in the Mild Stroke Study 3, the R4VaD Study and the LACI-2 Study.

Supervisors: Prof. Joanna Wardlaw and Dr Fergus Doubal

I worked as the SINAPSE Lead Scientist from June 2015 until April 2021. My background is in Psychology with a concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience, through which I gained experience conducting fMRI neuroimaging research.

Since May 2021 I have taken up the role of Senior Project Manager responsible for the Advanced Imaging workstream of the UKRI SiPF Living Laboratory programme.

I'm interested in face perception, recall and recognition and doing computational modelling of it.