Nina Higson-Sweeney

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate within the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, working within the Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research as part of the PANDA Lab.

My main research interests are in child and adolescent mental health, particularly depression, anxiety, and OCD, with the overall aim of ensuring that how mental health is addressed aligns with young people's wants, needs, and lived experiences. I am trained as a mixed methods researcher, with expertise in qualitative methods and a keen interest in co-production and participatory research.

In my current role at Oxford, I am working on a project funded by the Wellcome Accelerator Awards to improve help-seeking for OCD among ethnic minority adolescents. Additional collaborations include working with:

• Dr Lucy Foulkes to explore adolescent attitudes towards self-diagnosing with mental health problems
• Dr Josefien Breedvelt at King's College London to explore young people's attitudes towards risk prediction modelling and personalised prevention
• Dr Bethany Cliffe at the University of Westminster to explore doctoral students' experiences of conducting self-relevant mental health research
• Prof Maria Loades and Dr Jeff Lambert at the University of Bath to explore single-session interventions and student mental health

I am also the co-editor for The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Dungeons & Dragons, which is a book that explores the psychological underpinnings of one of the greatest tabletop roleplaying games of all time.