Eileen is a Research Associate working on an NIHR funded grant investigating cocaine use with Virtual Reality (VR) and Cue Exposure Therapy (CET).

Eileen joined the Addiction Department at King’s College London (KCL) in February 2019 after receiving her MSc in Addiction Studies from KCL. Over the years she has worked on various research projects within the department, including the ADAM trial as part of the Alcohol Research Group.

From 2020 and 2024 she completed her PhD at KCL. Her thesis is entitled: Harnessing wearable transdermal alcohol sensor devices for clinical use, investigated wrist-worn sensors which allow alcohol measurement with NHS alcohol patients accessing alcohol treatment.

Her MSc dissertation (2018) explored smoker’s perceptions on Stop Smoking Support and Stop Smoking Advisors as well as the effect a campaign can have on them.

Prior to this, Eileen has also completed a PG Certificate in Person Centred Counselling Skills at the University of East Anglia and an Undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Exeter. She completed her dissertation on gambling addiction using inhibition training and a subsequent betting task. This was to explore the possibility of using bottom-up processing as treatment in gambling addiction, leading on from previous research.

Research Interests

• Wearable technology to monitor drug and alcohol use.