Dr Delia Fuhrmann

Principal Investigator

Delia is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at King’s College London and leads the LIFE-MAP Lab. Her research is currently funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and UK Research and Innovation. Prior to joining King’s, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge. She completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University College London and her BSc Hons Psychology at the University of St Andrews.

Dr Kathryn Bates

Research Fellow

Kathryn is a Research Fellow in the lab and a Co-Investigator on the UKRI-funded UNITE Project. Kathryn previously worked on the SDA-SPA Project in the lab. Kathryn also produces The Science or Fiction Podcast and regularly writes for parents, teachers and young people on educational platforms. Kathryn completed her PhD in Psychology at University College London. You can find out more about her work on her personal website.

Dr Laura Riddleston

Visiting Researcher

Laura is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Queen Mary University of London in the Youth Resilience Unit and a Visiting Researcher in the lab. She is currently working on the YLS project, a UKRI-funded project to develop a new measure of loneliness in young people. Before joining Queen Mary, Laura was a Postdoctoral Researcher at KCL, investigating the cognitive correlates of youth loneliness. Laura completed her PhD in Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry at KCL.

Dr Hannah Slack

Affiliate Postdoc

Hannah is a Postdoctoral Quantitative Research Associate at KCL. She is currently part of U-Belong, an MRC-funded project that aims to develop new methods to measure and understand social connection, loneliness and belonging in the student population. Prior to joining King’s, Hannah completed a PhD in Psychology at the University of Nottingham, where she investigated the development of agency across adolescence. You can find more information via hannahslack.com.

Ms Chloe Carrick

PhD Student

Chloe is an MRC-DTP funded PhD student in the lab. She is interested in environmental predictors and mental health outcomes of individual variability in the pace of adolescent brain maturation. Her research will use nonlinear modelling approaches and emerging developmental samples such as ABCD. Chloe previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at UCL. She also holds a Research Master degree in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience from Maastricht University.

Ms Hannah Harwood

DClinPsy Student

Hannah is training as a clinical psychologist with King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. She is researching youth loneliness and socioeconomic marginalisation with the lab for her thesis. Hannah is also an experienced CAMHS cognitive behavioural therapist, having completed a postgraduate diploma at King’s in CBT for children and young people. She also has an MSc in Health Psychology from University College London.

Ms Lauren Turner

Research Assistant

Lauren is a Research Assistant at the QMUL Youth Resilience Unit and a Visiting Researcher in the lab working on the UNITE project. The project investigates how loneliness develops in youth from socio-economically marginalised backgrounds using a multi-method, co-produced approach. Lauren recently completed her MSc in Clinical Mental Health Sciences at University College London, where she also worked on placement as a research assistant. She holds a BA in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford.

Ms Amanah Bokhari

Young Person Co-Researcher

Ms Leandra Gyekye

Young Person Co-Researcher

Lab Alumni

Lara Acosta Siljestrom - NIHR Predoctoral Fellow
Karina Benza - PhD Student
Shengyang Chen - KCL Research Experience Student
Eleonora Contini - KCL Research Experience Student
Afraa Din - Young Person Advisor
Georgina Du Mello Gibbard - DClinPsy Student
Amber Inman - Placement Student
Aria Kazerouni - Visiting Student
Zara Kulbayeva - KCL Research Experience Student
Lea Michel - Visiting PhD Student
Ayla Pollmann - PhD Student
Mariam Shah - Young Person Advisor
Man Shiu Kwok - Placement Student