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Dr. Nicola Byrom is a Reader in Psychology at King's College London, affiliated with the School of Mental Health & Psychological Sciences and the Department of Psychology. She specializes in mental health and wellbeing in emerging adulthood, focusing on institutional, social, and cultural factors influencing mental health in higher education settings. Her work informed the University Mental Health Charter and Advance HE's Education for Mental Health Toolkit. Byrom founded Student Minds (UK's student mental health charity) and led the UKRI-funded SMaRteN network, supporting early-career researchers in mental health research. She advocates interdisciplinary collaboration and has published widely on peer support, curriculum design, and mental health policy.
Education: DPhil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford (supervised by Prof. Robin Murphy), with an MRC Centenary Award. Her research employs mixed methods, blending quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Research Interests: Mental health in emerging adulthood, peer support systems, lived experience perspectives, educational practices in higher education, and clinical applications of learning theory.
Notable Projects: U-Belong initiative (toolkit for student belonging), Nurture-U (multi-university mental health collaboration), and the Education for Mental Health Toolkit. She also led the development of an online resource for universities to support student mental health.
Awards: MRC Centenary Award. Active roles include trustee of Student Minds and organizing committee member for the International Association of Youth Mental Health conference.
Grants and Funding: £4.4 million UKRI MRC funding for IoPPN research projects (2022). SMaRteN supported 19 research projects and over 50 researchers.
Labs/Teams: SMaRteN network, EASY Research Group (Experimental And Social Psychology).
