My current research focuses on the relationship between sleep and depression, and factors relating to maternal mental illness, such as postnatal depression and postnatal psychosis (including how poor sleep may be implicated in PND). Previous work has additionally explored rural mental health and the use of complementary medication to treat mental illness. Click on a link below to go a more specific page.

• Sleep

Current work includes a PhD project (student: Lauren Kita) exploring the extent that poor sleep may be a risk factor for postnatal depression. Previous work has focused on how subjective sleep satisfaction is perceived in depression, and a postnatal sleep pilot study. Future plans include incorporating sleep hygiene into treatment programmes for depression (in collaboration with Nanterre University, Paris). We are seeking to establish a sleep research group, joining forces with the University of Bristol, Oxford University, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, University of Southampton, and the University of the West of England.