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Dr Meg Attwood
PhD, BA, BA, MEd, MA
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Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School of Psychological Science
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Research interests
My research focuses on the interaction between emotion and cognition, and particularly on identifying cognitive mechanisms that underpin the onset and maintenance of maladaptive thinking patterns (e.g., worry, rumination) in young people. My PhD research has investigated how anxiety affects young people's working memory performance, and in particular, their ability to selectively focus their attention and resist interference from distraction. Alongside work to identify behavioural indices of anxiety-related working memory impairment, I have also conducted large-scale surveys of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people's psychological wellbeing and cognitive function. More recently, I've been involved in participatory research projects (co-produced with young people) that sought to creatively explore everyday experiences of repetitive negative thinking and mental health support.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Exploring the Role of Collaborative Creativity in Grief Processing
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
All of us will experience grief in our lifetimes. With counselling services increasingly over-subscribed, there is a turn towards social prescribing initiatives and growing pressure to find new ways to…Managing organisational unit
Department of EnglishDates
01/11/2023 to 31/07/2024
Publications
Recent publications
01/12/2023Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on older adolescents’ psychological wellbeing and self-identified cognitive difficulties
JCPP Advances
Lexical access speed and the development of phonological recoding during immediate serial recall
Journal of Cognition and Development
Multilab Direct Replication of Flavell, Beach, and Chinsky (1966)
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science