And I get to do all of this with the best people! I feel so privileged to learn for a living, and grateful for all the opportunities with such wonderful and supportive folk.

Interdisciplinary work is fun, and I’ve been lucky enough to join the team in taking ReaderBank from Edinburgh to Jaipur and back, tell stories on stage, and present to lots of cool groups of people, like the lovely people at Wellcome, ICHR, and the NHS.

I did some cool stuff like attending a Sleep School over in São Paulo, Brazil, where I learned a lot about chronobiology and circadian rhythms. I also broke my hand AND accidentally started a two hour Open Science debate among the ~100 people attending but they’re stories for another time.

My PhD thesis was 'Exploring the association between hallucinations, sleep, and cognitive control' supervised by @petermoseley.bsky.social, Jason Ellis, and @davidesmailes.bsky.social. Loved this experience and will be sharing some in press articles soon!

During this time, I got involved in some amazing qualitative projects around wellbeing and mental health systems. For my undergrad dissertation, I investigated young adults’ experiences of waiting lists in mental health care.

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I'm a research psychologist, and completed my education at Northumbria University in 2024. I was a demonstrator during my postgrad degrees teaching theory, qual and quant methods, and gaining my FHEA.

Firstly, hi, I’m Georgia. I like taking photos, climbing hills and walls, running and walking long distances, and trying not to kill my houseplants. I’m interested in empirically and phenomenologically exploring mental imagery, cognitive control, sleep, and hallucinations.

Since my viva, I’ve been working @durhamimh.bsky.social with @aldersonday.bsky.social to create ReaderBank - an interdisciplinary project looking into reading, the imagination, and mental health along in collaboration with Edinburgh International Book Festival.

readerbank.org

This has been a long time in the making, starting four years ago with an interdisciplinary project at Durham University at the Institute of Advanced Study. Massive thanks to all my collaborators on this. It has been a team effort.

I only wish Simon James, one of our collaborators, was still here to see this out in the real world. I know how enthusiastic he'd have been to see this, as it was his genuine passion for interdisciplinary research that kept us going throughout.

..and you can read the interdisciplinary extravaganza - including perspectives from psychology, philosophy, linguistics, religious studies, anthropology, english & medical humanities - in this collection we did based on the original study. And it's all free to read! 3/3

academic.oup.com/book/44440

You can find the original study here - it focused on the phenomenology and personification of voices in early psychosis 2/3

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33484268/

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