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Professor Louise Arseneault is a Professor of Developmental Psychology at King's College London, based at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) within the Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre. She is a leading researcher in developmental psychology with expertise in mental health, victimization, and longitudinal research approaches.
Her research program investigates how the consequences of violence begin in childhood and persist to mid-life, focusing on bullying victimization and child maltreatment. She also examines the impact of social relationships including social support, loneliness, and social isolation on mental health. Her work combines developmental research, epidemiological methods, and genetically sensitive designs, incorporating social and biological measurements across the life span.
Professor Arseneault completed her PhD in biomedical sciences at the University of Montreal and moved to the UK for post-doctoral training at King's College London. She has extensive experience working with major longitudinal cohorts including the Montreal Longitudinal Cohorts, the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, and the National Child Development Survey (NCDS).
Her recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on longitudinal approaches to understanding mental health development, with particular emphasis on bullying, loneliness, social relationships, and the biological and environmental factors influencing mental health trajectories from childhood to adulthood. Her work frequently employs genetically sensitive designs and twin studies to address causal questions in mental health research.
Key achievements include:
- Elected as Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2018)
- Conferred Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (2019)
- Served as Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Mental Health Leadership Fellow for 5 years
Professor Arseneault has led significant research initiatives including the creation of the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures, a web platform optimizing the uptake of mental health measures from UK-based longitudinal studies. She also led the Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets project, funded by the Wellcome Trust, to identify longitudinal datasets with potential for transformative mental health research.
She leads the Platforms for Longitudinal Mental Health Data (PALM) team and is involved in DATAMIND - The Hub for Mental Health Informatics Research Development, funded by the Medical Research Council. Current research projects include 'Workplace bullying in an evolving landscape' and 'The time of their lives? Developing Concepts and Methods to Understand Loneliness in Students.'
