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Biography
Elizabeth Kirkham is a psychology researcher with expertise in mental health, affective and cognitive neuroscience, and science communication.
She originally studied for a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at Durham University. During this time she also worked as a research assistant in Criminology, and it was this experience that led her to seek out a career in research.
She later studied for a PhD at the University of Sheffield. During this time she won an award for science writing (PubMED and The British Library's Access to Understanding 2014), and subsequently worked as a freelancer writer for eLife alongside her PhD study. Elizabeth's PhD research was focused on early life stress and its impact on how the (human) brain processes emotional information. She investigated this topic using electroencephalography (EEG) and psychological questionnaires.
Current Research Interests
Elizabeth's current work is focused on participatory research and public engagement for the CoMorMent Horizon 2020 project. This collaborative EU project is led by the University of Oslo and focuses on the relationship between mental health and cardiovascular health, and how this relationship may be influenced by genetic and environmental factors.
She is also interested in extending her previous research on the effects of early life stress on the mental health and the adult brain.
Education/Academic qualification
Cognitive Neuroscience, Master in Science, Durham University
Psychology, Bachelor of Science, Durham University
Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), The Effects of Early Life Stress on Affective Processing: Behavioural and Neural Correlates, University of Sheffield
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Research output
- 8 Article
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Views on sharing mental health data for research purposes: Qualitative analysis of interviews with people with mental illness
Watson, E., Fletcher-Watson, S. & Kirkham, E. J., Dec 2023, In: BMC Medical Ethics. 24, 1, p. 1-12 12 p., 99.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Effect of School Bullying on Pupils' Perceived Stress and Wellbeing During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study
Kirkham, E. J., Huggins, C. F. & C, F-R., 22 Dec 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma. p. 1-8 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Patient satisfaction with mental and physical health services: Findings from a UK-wide online survey
Kirkham, E. J., Fletcher-Watson, S., Beange, I., Chan, S. W. Y. & Lawrie, S. M., 1 Aug 2022, In: Wellcome Open Research. 7, p. 198Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Experience of clinical services shapes attitudes to mental health data sharing: findings from a UK-wide survey
Kirkham, E. J., Lawrie, S. M., Crompton, C. J., Iveson, M. H., Jenkins, N. D., Goerdten, J., Beange, I., Chan, S. W. Y., Mcintosh, A. & Fletcher-watson, S., 19 Feb 2022, In: BMC Public Health. 22, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Co-development of a Best Practice Checklist for Mental Health Data Science: A Delphi Study
Kirkham, E. J., Crompton, C. J., Iveson, M. H., Beange, I., Mcintosh, A. M. & Fletcher-watson, S., 10 Jun 2021, In: Frontiers in psychiatry. 12Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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Consultation group with people with lived experience of mental illness
Elizabeth Kirkham (Host) & Sue Fletcher-Watson (Advisor)
7 Jan 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Evidence submitted to Cross Party Group - Mental Health
Iona Beange (Contributor), Andrew McIntosh (Advisor), Mark Adams (Advisor), Elizabeth Kirkham (Advisor) & Matthew Iveson (Advisor)
Feb 2021Activity: Consultancy types › Providing oral or written evidence for non-academic board, committee, working group or advisory panel
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Prioritising people with mental illness in mental health data science
Elizabeth Kirkham (Assessor)
2021Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Visit from the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland
Matthew Iveson (Contributor), Andrew McIntosh (Host), Iona Beange (Contributor), Elizabeth Kirkham (Contributor), Mat Harris (Contributor), Carys Pugh (Contributor), Sue Fletcher-Watson (Contributor), Robert Stewart (Contributor), Stephen Lawrie (Contributor), Colin Buchanan (Contributor), Peter W Mathieson (Chair), David Porteous (Contributor), James Boardman (Contributor) & Angus Macbeth (Contributor)
16 Jan 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition
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Midlothian science Festival 2019: Big Data Detectives
Matthew Iveson (Presenter), Iona Beange (Organiser), Andrew McIntosh (Advisor), Carys Pugh (Contributor), Mark Adams (Contributor) & Elizabeth Kirkham (Presenter)
13 Oct 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Festival/Exhibition
Prizes
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1st place - Access to Understanding science writing competition
Kirkham, Elizabeth (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Good Research Practice Award
Beange, Iona (Recipient), McIntosh, Andrew (Recipient), Adams, Mark (Recipient), Whalley, Heather (Recipient), Kirkham, Elizabeth (Recipient), Iveson, Matthew (Recipient), Kwong, Alex (Recipient), Lewins, Melissa (Recipient), Chan, Stella (Recipient), MacSweeney, Niamh (Recipient), Barbu, Miruna (Recipient), Romaniuk, Liana (Recipient), Ecks, Stefan (Recipient), Higgins, Charlotte (Recipient), Smith, Daniel (Recipient), Campbell, Morag Allan (Recipient), Goodall, Karen (Recipient), Christie, Hope (Recipient), Happer, Rachel (Recipient) & Boynton, Petra M (Recipient), Dec 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Developing a measure of excessive rationalisation
1/07/23 → …
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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Examination of the potential effect of early life stress on N170 responses to learned danger signals – re-analysis of EEG data
20/12/22 → …
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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Datasets
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A Celebration of Scottish Health Cohort Studies: Participants' attitudes towards data research
Beange, I. (Creator), McIntosh, A. (Creator), Kirkham, E. (Creator), Fletcher-Watson, S. (Creator), Lawrie, S. (Creator), Batty, G. D. (Creator), Boardman, J. (Creator), Black, C. (Creator) & Porteous, D. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 16 Dec 2019
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2728
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Views on sharing mental and physical health data among people with and without experience of mental illness
Fletcher-Watson, S. (Creator), Beange, I. (Creator), Chan, S. (Creator), McIntosh, A. (Creator), Kirkham, E. (Creator), Lawrie, S. (Creator), Crompton, C. (Creator) & Iveson, M. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 11 Jul 2022
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3486, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.02.21251041v1
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Associations between obsessive-compulsive disorder, early life stress, psychological variables and treatment resistance
Kirkham, E. (Creator), Król, M. (Creator) & Cao, Y. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 3 Jan 2024
DOI: 10.7488/ds/7661
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