July 2026: Attended the International Society of Research on Emotion Conference in Brisbane (TBC)

May 2026: Wrote a blog post for the McPin Foundation along with my young person advisory group about how we can make traditional sleep studies more accessible.

May 2026:  I wrote (yet) another blog post for Mental Elf, reviewing an article on how sleep changes across the lifespan. 

January 2026: Big life update.. I moved to Melbourne for a new postdoc position in the Functions of Everyday Emotions Lab (Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne), super excited to work on secondary data projects using multiple experience sampling datasets. 

November 2025: Podcast Guest “Sleep, Social Media & Anxiety” for The Research Room. 

November 2025: Keynote speaker on the effects of smartphone and social media use on adolescents' sleep and wellbeing at the CPHVA conference in Bristol (see my talk slides). 

October 2025: Wrote a researcher spotlight blog for the Circadian Mental Health Network discussing my ECR Pilot Project Grant research on the relationship between mood and sleep using both real-world and lab-based methods.

October 2025: Podcast Guest "Your Brain Without Sleep" for Optimism Sci

September 2025: Attended the World Sleep Conference in Singapore and presented my PhD work on sleep and VR (see my talk slides).

July 2025: I presented our preliminary work my Huo Family Foundation Pilot Project Grant, examining the effects of 21 days of smartphone abstinence on sleep and wellbeing in adolescents at the BPS Cyberpsychology conference in Birmingham (see my talk slides). 

June 2025: Attended the Circadian Mental Health Network conference in Edinburgh and presented a poster on my pilot project plans on sleep and emotional inertia (see my poster). 

May 2025: I wrote another blog post for Mental Elf, reviewing an article on smartphone bans in schools and the association with mental wellbeing and screentime outside of school. 

April 2025: I attended the REAL workshop in KU Leuven on Experience Sampling Methods.

December 2024: Grant success 2... I was awarded a £12,450 ECR Pilot Project Grant from the Circadian Mental Health Network to investigate the influence of sleep parameters on emotional inertia. 

December 2024: Grant success 1... I was awarded a £14,512 ECR Pilot Project Grant from the Huo Family Foundation to investigate the impacts of smartphone use on social, emotional and cognitive functioning and sleep in adolescents.

December 2024: I was one of the researchers involved in the Channel 4 documentary "Swiped: The School that Banned Smartphones". Here we explored the effects of a 21-day smartphone ban on 12-year-olds wellbeing, sleep, and cognitive functions. We found some positive preliminary evidence which received coverage from the University. We are in the process of publishing the rest of the findings (stay tuned!). 

October 2024: I wrote a blog post for Mental Elf, reviewing an article on whether sleep interventions delivered by non-expert practitioners are feasible for youth mental health. 

September 2024: I presented my PhD work on sleep and VR at the European Sleep Research Society Conference in Seville (see my talk slides). 

July 2024: I co-organised the Symposium on "Sleep and Mental Health: From Mechanisms to Practice" and presented my PhD work on sleep and VR at the British Association of Psychopharmacology conference at the University of Birmingham (see my talk slides). 

June 2024: I presented my PhD work on sleep and VR as part of the University of York's interdisciplinary Celebrating Spaces event. 

May 2024: I became a co-editor on a special issue in Neuropsychologia on the role of sleep in learning, memory, and emotion processing. 

May 2024: I gave a talk on "Sleep and mental health: regulating emotions in a virtual world" as part of Pint of Science 2024. 

April 2024: I delivered an academic taster session to sixth-formers on Narcissistic Personality Disorder as part of York Next Steps to give them an insight to what a Year 1 Psychology seminar involves. 

February 2024: I delivered workshops to sixth-formers on sleep and emotions as part of a widening participation outreach program (York Next Steps) to give them a flavour of what university lectures and seminars are like. 

January 2024: I passed my viva with no corrections! I had some wonderful discussions with my examiners and overall a positive experience. 

November 2023: I submitted my PhD! Titled "The cognitive mechanisms by which sleep supports emotion regulation and mental health". 

November 2023: Took part in I'm a Scientist Psychology Zone, an online chat hosting platform where students can connect with psychologists, see the report here. 

October 2023: Contributed to an article in The Times on sleep in middle age. 

September 2023: Attended the BPS Cognitive Conference at the University of Bristol. I presented my work on the impact of sleep deprivation on arousal responses to prolonged ambiguous threat (see my talk slides). As the ECR representative of the BPS Cognitive Committee, I also organised an ECR Research Blitz and a pub quiz. 

July 2023: Press release on our latest work examining whether high sleep quality and adaptive emotion regulation promote resilience to depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

July 2023: Attended the British Association of Psychopharmacology conference at the University of Manchester. I presented two posters on my study examining the influence of high sleep quality and adaptive emotion regulation strategies on depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic (see my poster), and also my work on the impact of sleep deprivation on arousal responses to prolonged ambiguous threat (see my poster). 

July 2023: Delivered an interactive workshop on "Sleep what is it good for?" to Year 12 students as part of the York Experience Summer School at the University of York.  

July 2023: Attended the Experimental Psychology Society conference at the University of Swansea. I gave a talk on my virtual reality study examining the impact of sleep deprivation on arousal responses to prolonged ambiguous threat (see my talk).