I am a Lecturer in Quantitative Research Methods in the School of Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast. My background is in social and personality psychology, with expertise in assessment, psychometrics, and latent variable modelling applied to various domains, primarily mental health and psychopathology. Since 2016, I have been researching and teaching psychology, psychometrics and statistics at different faculties and higher education institutions across the UK. I am an experienced and enthusiastic R user and instructor.

My research focusses on the intersections between personality and identity, answering the questions as to how individuals differ in their identity perceptions and to what extent that influences their capacity to deal with adversities and affects their mental health. I am also interested and actively researching in the area of psychological assessment, including scale development and the study of the cross-cultural adaptability and invariance of measures.

I a member of the following bodies and research centres: InteRRact Lab;  Research Centre for Stress, Trauma, and Related Conditions Research Group (STARC); the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID); the Affect, Personality, and the Embodied Brain Research Network (APE); and the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP), for which I also act as mentor for early-career researchers; I serve as Public Engagement and Dissemination Officer and am a Member of the Executive Committee of the British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences (BSPID)

I am an Editorial Board member Personality and Individual Differences, Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, and BMC Psychology.

I teach on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules, supervise BSc, MSc, and PhD students’ research, and act as Module Coordinator for PSY7093 Methods Design, and Analysis in Psychology.