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 development with a keen interest in modelling longitudinal data and 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
Conference presentations
Havers, L., Cardno, A., Freeman, D., and Ronald, A. (2021). British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences, online. 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. Oral presentation
Havers, L., Cardno, A., Freeman, D., and Ronald, A. (2021). Behavior Genetics Association, online. Associations between the subdomains of negative symptoms in the general population and genome-wide polygenic scores for major depressive disorder and schizophrenia. Poster presentation
Havers, L., Cardno, A., Freeman, D., and Ronald, A. (2020). London Genetics Network, online. Negative symptoms in the general population from adolescence to early adulthood: Are there subdomain-specific associations with polygenic scores for schizophrenia and major depressive disorder? Poster presentation