Contact
Email: lhaver01@mail.bbk.ac.uk
Twitter: @HaversLaura
Supervisors
Professor Angelica Ronald
Dr Emma Meaburn
Research
My PhD focuses on the development of psychotic experiences and negative symptoms (PENS) from adolescence to emerging adulthood in the general population. I will look at genetic and environmental influences on this develelopment, with a keen interest in modelling longitudinal data using structural equation modelling.
Funding
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 1+3 studentship
Enhanced funding for Advanced Quantitative Methods
Education
PhD Psychology – Birkbeck, University of London (2017-present)
MSc (distinction) Psychological Research Methods – Birkbeck, University of London (2015-2016)
BSc (first class honours) Psychology – Birkbeck, University of London (2010-2014)
Publications
Havers, L., Cardno, A., Freeman, D., and Ronald, A. The latent structure of negative symptoms in the general population in adolescence and emerging adulthood. (Under review)
Havers, L., Taylor, M. J., and Ronald, A. (2019). Genetic and environmental influences on the stability of psychotic experiences and negative symptoms in adolescence. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 60(7), 784–792. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13045
Presentations
Associations between the subdomains of negative symptoms in the general population and genome-wide polygenic scores for major depressive disorder and schizophrenia. (June, 2021). Behavior Genetics Association, online conference. Poster presentation.
The latent structure of negative symptoms in the general population in adolescence and emerging adulthood and associations with genome-wide polygenic scores for major depressive disorder and schizophrenia. (June, 2021). British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences, online conference. Oral presentation.