Anna joined the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health in November 2023 as a Post-doctoral Research Associate. Her work focusses on psychosis, looking at the impact of social isolation on long-term health, and social and community interventions to improve outcomes.

Previously, she worked as a Research Fellow at the NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit at University College London (UCL), producing evidence syntheses to evaluate current mental health care approaches across a number of domains.

Anna completed her PhD at UCL in 2022, researching social cognition across the paranoia continuum, including in psychosis. She has a particular interest in the social determinants of mental health.

Research Interests: 

• Psychosis
• Paranoia
• Social determinants of mental health
• Clinical Psychology
• Translational mental health research
• Co-production in research