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Joanne Newbury is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at King's College London, affiliated with the Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre within the School of Mental Health & Psychological Sciences at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN). She joined KCL in 2013 to pursue a multidisciplinary MSc+PhD and has been funded by an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship since 2018. Her work focuses on understanding how urban environments influence the development of psychotic experiences in children and adolescents, integrating social factors (e.g., crime rates), environmental factors (e.g., air pollution), and genetic confounding variables.
Joanne holds a BA in Combined Honours in Anthropology and Psychology from Durham University. Before her postgraduate studies, she worked for two years as a MENCAP support worker, assisting adults with learning disabilities.
Her research interests include psychosis, city living, neighborhood characteristics, and air pollution's impact on mental health. She is a core member of the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study team, which tracks the development of children born in the 1990s to explore environmental and genetic influences on mental health.
- Teaching: 2018–2019: Teaching Assistant for the MSc Mental Health Studies program's "Social and Community Mental Health" module.
- Public Engagement:
- 2017: Invited roundtable discussant at CityLab Paris on urban policy for youth well-being.
- 2018: Demonstrator for MQ Mental Health Charity event at Parliament.
- 2019: Press briefing at Science Media Centre on air pollution and adolescent mental health.
- 2019: Contributed blogs to ScienceBreaker and Medical Research, and a podcast for Breathific (air quality charity).
- 2019: Panel speaker at Connected Places Catapult conference on "Cities for Future Humans."
Grants: Since 2018, her research has been supported by an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Labs/Teams: Active contributor to the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study team, investigating long-term mental health outcomes in urban environments.
