Research & background

My research interests centre on making neuropsychological assessment more useful in everyday life: understanding individual differences, helping people use their assessment, and exploring exercise in cognitive recovery. These are developing interests, informed by postgraduate study, work with young people and an earlier career in visual effects.

Academic background

Qualification

MSc Psychology · Ulster University

Result

Distinction · completed 2026

Current study

PGDip Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health · University of Warwick · in progress

My MSc dissertation examined neurocognitive predictors and profiles in digitally simulated dual-tasking for scalable fall-risk screening, bringing executive function, inhibition, processing speed and attention into a simulation of everyday demands.

My current postgraduate work at Warwick includes neuroscience and mental health, ADHD, neuroplasticity, developmental adversity, anxiety in children and young people, and evidence-based intervention. I am applying for doctoral training in Clinical Psychology / Clinical Neuropsychology, with research as an important part of that career.

Applied experience

Role

Learning Strategist / Executive Functioning Coach

Focus

Executive function · adolescents and emerging adults

Setting

MindKey · learning strategy and executive-function support

Location

Victoria, British Columbia

I support young people with planning, task initiation, attention and self-management. This work keeps the everyday consequences of executive-function difficulties close to hand: a plan that looks sound on paper still has to survive a Tuesday afternoon.

I also volunteer at Victoria General Hospital in neurorehabilitation and medical imaging, including support for cognitive activities during stroke recovery. These experiences inform the questions I want to bring into research.

Earlier career

First career

Visual effects & computer graphics

Responsibilities

Senior creative and supervisory roles

Experience

Approximately two decades · including DNEG

Current direction

Psychology · neuroscience · neuropsychological assessment

Before psychology, I spent approximately two decades in visual effects and computer graphics, eventually in senior creative and supervisory roles. The work involved complex digital systems, visual information, technology, teams and human performance under demanding conditions.

That experience now forms part of a different set of questions about cognition and assessment. It gives me a practical interest in building digital environments that are useful, intelligible and worth the effort.