I am a Lecturer in Quantitative Research Methods in the School of Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast. My background is in personality psychology and quantitative methods, with expertise in psychological assessment, psychometrics, and advanced statistical modelling, including latent variable and network approaches applied to mental health and psychopathology. Since 2016, I have been researching and teaching psychology, psychometrics, and statistics across several higher education institutions in the UK. I am an experienced R user and instructor and regularly develop reproducible analytic workflows for research and teaching.

My research programme examines how personality and identity processes shape individuals’ responses to adversity and influence mental health outcomes. In particular, I investigate the role of individual differences and trauma in vulnerability and recovery across a range of applied contexts, including eating disorders, personality disorders, dissociative disorders (in particular, depersonalisation/derealisation), problematic sex, and sexual risk behaviours. Alongside this work, I conduct research on psychological measurement, including scale development, validation, and the cross cultural equivalence and invariance of psychological instruments.

I serve as Public Engagement and Dissemination Officer and as a member of the Executive Committee of the British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences (BSPID) and a Member of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID). I also serve as a mentor for early career researchers for the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP) and Co-Chair the Data and Outcome Groups for the Personality and Eating Disorders Managed Care Networks in Northern Ireland, UK.