Laura Havers (1+3 PhD student)

Twitter: @HaversLaura

Laura began her part-time PhD in the GEL lab in 2017 as part of an ESRC 1+3 studentship, supervised by Professor Angelica Ronald. She gained distinction for her MSc in Psychological Research Methods, and achieved the highest first class honours as a BSc student in Psychology at Birkbeck (2014).

Laura has previously worked and volunteered with adolescents and adults experiencing mental health difficulties prior to and throughout her undergraduate degree. Laura is particularly interested in the origins and the development of individual differences in psychological and emotional difficulties, particularly during adolescence and emerging adulthood. Her PhD will focus on psychotic experiences and negative symptoms (PENS) across the lifespan in the general population. She will use a range of psychometric and behavioural genetic methods, with a keen focus on modelling longitudinal data and structural equation modelling.

Funding

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 1+3 studentship

Enhanced funding for Advanced Quantitative Methods

Education

PhD Psychology – Birkbeck, University of London (2017-present)

MSc (distinction) Psychological Research Methods – Birkbeck, University of London (2015-2016)

BSc (first class honours) Psychology – Birkbeck, University of London (2010-2014)

Publications

An up to date list of publications can be found here on the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development website

Conference presentations

Havers, L., Cardno, A., Freeman, D., and Ronald, A. (2021). British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences, online. The latent structure of negative symptoms in the general population in adolescence and emerging adulthood and associations with genome-wide polygenic scores for major depressive disorder and schizophrenia. Oral presentation

Havers, L., Cardno, A., Freeman, D., and Ronald, A. (2021). Behavior Genetics Association, online. Associations between the subdomains of negative symptoms in the general population and genome-wide polygenic scores for major depressive disorder and schizophrenia. Poster presentation

Havers, L., Cardno, A., Freeman, D., and Ronald, A. (2020). London Genetics Network, online. Negative symptoms in the general population from adolescence to early adulthood: Are there subdomain-specific associations with polygenic scores for schizophrenia and major depressive disorder? Poster presentation