Francesca Cotier is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology Education at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London.

Dr Cotier joined King’s as a Teaching Fellow and year 2 curriculum coordinator in September 2019. She completed her PhD at the University of Hong Kong in 2016. Her thesis considered the relationship between social defeat and psychosis proneness in a Chinese population. After completing her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Neuropsychology at the University of Hong Kong.

Currently Dr Cotier leads and teaches on modules relating to mental health. Her primary research interests lie in exploring sociocultural risk and projective factors for mental health conditions, in particular, psychosis. She is also interested in identity, in particular, cultural and food identity.

Research interests

• Social and cultural risk and protective factors for mental health conditions, in particular psychosis.
• The relationship between different forms of identity (e.g. cultural, food) and mental health.
• Cross-cultural studies
• Team Based Learning

Teaching

BSc in Psychology: Mental Health modules