Hello!

I'm a research fellow and teacher at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Evidence Based Practice Unit, between University College London and the Anna Freud Centre, and research lead with the CAMHS Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC). I'm also a member of the Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) Outcomes and Evaluation Group and the CAMHS PbR project.

Before coming to London, I worked for three years at the University of Salzburg in Austria, first at the Logic of Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning end of the European Science Foundation LogICCC programme, on how people reason about uncertainty, then on the EU-funded Aniketos project, where I contributed to work on cognitive and social models of trust. I did my PhD (graduated 2009) at the University of Edinburgh Neuroinformatics Doctoral Training Centre on how individual differences in reasoning relate to autistic-like traits in non-clinical populations, supervised by Keith Stenning and Bob Logie, also working with Mary Stewart.

Other info: books I enjoyed (suggestions for others to read would be very welcome; I'm also playing with goodreads); music I'm listening to; a poem inspired by the later stages of the PhD (some advice on which may be found over here); some more; a crumpled note; a blog; some lyrics; links to software I use; some places I like in London; a smile machine :-)

Philip Larkin – Ignorance

Strange to know nothing, never to be sure

Of what is true or right or real,

But forced to qualify or so I feel,

Or Well, it does seem so:

Someone must know.

Strange to be ignorant of the way things work:

Their skill at finding what they need,

Their sense of shape, and punctual spread of seed,

And willingness to change;

Yes, it is strange,

Even to wear such knowledge – for our flesh

Surrounds us with its own decisions –

And yet spend all our life on imprecisions,

That when we start to die

Have no idea why.