I am a PhD candidate at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) with an interest in personality psychology, specifically antagonistic personality traits (including psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and sadism). My research explores how antagonistic traits interact with resilience, job performance, and various mental health outcomes (such as depression, anxiety, stress, and posttraumatic stress disorder) within high-risk occupational groups and under psychologically demanding conditions.

My membership with QUB's Trauma & Mental Health Group and Interdisciplinary Research in Resilience and Cognition Centre (InteRRaCt) developed my interest in uncovering the mechanisms through which antagonistic traits may help or hinder psychological outcomes. My PhD thesis explores the re-contextualization of such traits to better understand their potential adaptive function, In doing so, my research promotes productive, context-sensitive personality science.

Previous work includes investigating the impact of COVID-19 on personality and resilience (BSc, Loughborough University), and examining influence dynamics between parental and adolescent Dark Triad traits and behavioural outcomes (MSc, Queen’s University Belfast).