Dr Anna Adlam

About me:

Associate Professor Anna Adlam is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist (D.Clin.Psy.) and academic Neuropsychologist (Ph.D.), who specialises in working with individuals who have survived paediatric brain injury. Anna gained her Ph.D., investigating dissociations in memory in developmental amnesia, at the Institute of Child Health, UCL (1999-2003). Following this, Anna worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (2003-2006), investigating the neural correlates of semantic memory. Anna went on to complete her doctoral training in Clinical Psychology at the University of East Anglia (UEA, 2006-2009) before joining the UEA as a Clinical Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. Anna also worked as a clinical psychologist for the Cambridge Centre of Paediatric Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (2009-2012). Anna joined the University of Exeter as a Senior Lecturer in 2012 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. Anna completed a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2015-17), which focused on adapting an online problem-solving intervention for children aged 9 -12 years old who had survived a brain injury (in collaboration with Professor Shari Wade). Anna was the Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research for CEDAR/DClinPsy (2012-2015), then Co-Director of Postgraduate Research for CEDAR/DClinPsy (2017-2019) and is now the Co-Director of Postgraduate Research for Psychology. Anna is also the Research Lead for the Child and Adolescent Neuropsychology group and co-ordinates the Paediatric Neurocognitive Interventions Research Group, an international research network conducting studies in the UK/Europe, USA, and Australia.

Anna is interested in supervising MbyRes/MPhil/PhD students researching the following topics: developing and evaluating neuropsychological/psychological interventions for children/children with neurological conditions; understanding the relationship between neurocognitive function and mood in children. Please email Anna if you wish to discuss further.

Key words: child, brain, mood, memory, executive function, interventions

Interests:

The main focus of Anna's research is to develop and evaluate interventions for young people who experience neuropsychological difficulties (e.g., following an acquired brain injury). Research themes include:

• memory and executive processes
• mood disorders
• social function

Anna is particularly interested in how these processes interact and influence each other. Research techniques include:

• experimental neuropsychology
• neuroimaging
• single case experimental designs
• randomised controlled designs

Qualifications:

Certificate in Higher Education Practice, University of East Anglia, 2011

D.Clin.Psy., University of East Anglia, 2009

Ph.D. (Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience), University College London, 2003

B.Sc. (Psychology, First Class Honours), University of Bristol, 1998