Speaker
Dr Nina Higson-Sweeney
Lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford.
Biography
Dr Nina Higson-Sweeney is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, focused on clinical, health, and developmental psychology. Her main research interests are in child and adolescent mental health, particularly depression, anxiety, and obsessive compulsive disorder, with the overall aim of ensuring that how mental health is addressed in research and practice aligns with young people's wants, needs, and lived experiences. Nina is a mixed methods researcher, with expertise in qualitative methods and a keen interest in co-production and participatory research, including arts-based approaches. Her PhD focused on fatigue as a symptom of adolescent depression, whereas her current postdoctoral role is focused on better understanding young people's attitudes towards and experiences of self-diagnosing with mental health problems.