Jack Andrews
Wellcome Early-Career Fellow
Developmental Science & Mental Health
Research Summary
I am a developmental psychologist interested in how adolescents navigate their complex social networks, and how these networks impact mental health. In particular, my current programme of work is focused on:
(1) The role of peer influence effects on adolescent mental health (e.g., social contagion and co-rumination)
(2) The application of novel methods to evaluate the success and failure of school-based interventions for mental health (e.g., using social network analysis)
(3) The development of social-cognition during adolescence (e.g., social working memory).
Much of this work draws on a combination of methods, including those from experimental psychology (e.g. behavioural experiments), the computational social sciences (e.g., social network analysis), epidemiology (e.g. longitudinal modelling) and intervention science (e.g., randomised controlled trials).
My research is currently funded by the Wellcome Trust and University College, Oxford, where I hold the Stevenson JRF in Medical Sciences (Psychology). I am also an affiliated Research Fellow at the Matilda Centre for Mental Health and Substance Use at the University of Sydney. Prior to joining Oxford, I read Psychological & Behavioural Sciences at Cambridge and completed my PhD at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. I then spent a couple years in Australia as a postdoc at UNSW and the University of Sydney.
Recent publications
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A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19.
Journal article
Ruggeri K. et al, (2023), Nature
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Measuring and reporting potential harm from universal school-based mental health interventions: Research recommendations for an ethical issue
Preprint
Foulkes L. et al, (2023)
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Evaluating the effectiveness of a universal eHealth school-based prevention programme for depression and anxiety, and the moderating role of friendship network characteristics.
Journal article
Andrews JL. et al, (2023), Psychol Med, 53, 5042 - 5051
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Protocol for a proof-of-principal study comparing engagement with a gamified versus standard affective control training app targeting emotional wellbeing in adolescents
Preprint
Grunewald K. et al, (2023)
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The effect of intolerance of uncertainty on anxiety and depression, and their symptom networks, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal article
Andrews JL. et al, (2023), BMC Psychiatry, 23