So there's the lore drop - I hope to be more than just an academic fly-on-the-wall from this point and actually share some stuff coming up in the new year. 😊

And I get to do all of this with the best people! I feel so privileged to learn for a living, and grateful for all the opportunities with such wonderful and supportive folk.

Interdisciplinary work is fun, and I’ve been lucky enough to join the team in taking ReaderBank from Edinburgh to Jaipur and back, tell stories on stage, and present to lots of cool groups of people, like the lovely people at Wellcome, ICHR, and the NHS.

Since my viva, I’ve been working @durhamimh.bsky.social with @aldersonday.bsky.social to create ReaderBank - an interdisciplinary project looking into reading, the imagination, and mental health along in collaboration with Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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I did some cool stuff like attending a Sleep School over in São Paulo, Brazil, where I learned a lot about chronobiology and circadian rhythms. I also broke my hand AND accidentally started a two hour Open Science debate among the ~100 people attending but they’re stories for another time.

One of these upcoming papers comes from a sleep deprivation project I did with the Northumbria Centre for Sleep Research looking at the effects of acute sleep loss on cognitive control mechanisms associated with cognitive models of hallucinations.

My PhD thesis was 'Exploring the association between hallucinations, sleep, and cognitive control' supervised by @petermoseley.bsky.social, Jason Ellis, and @davidesmailes.bsky.social. Loved this experience and will be sharing some in press articles soon!

During this time, I got involved in some amazing qualitative projects around wellbeing and mental health systems. For my undergrad dissertation, I investigated young adults’ experiences of waiting lists in mental health care.

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I'm a research psychologist, and completed my education at Northumbria University in 2024. I was a demonstrator during my postgrad degrees teaching theory, qual and quant methods, and gaining my FHEA.

Firstly, hi, I’m Georgia. I like taking photos, climbing hills and walls, running and walking long distances, and trying not to kill my houseplants. I’m interested in empirically and phenomenologically exploring mental imagery, cognitive control, sleep, and hallucinations.