Rebecca Webb

Dr Rebecca Webb is a Research Fellow at City St George's, University of London, specializing in perinatal mental health, birth trauma, and systematic reviews since 2019. She leads major studies including MATRIx, INTERSECT, and ADORE, focusing on improving mental healthcare access and outcomes for mothers and families.

Her educational background includes:

• PhD in Maternal mental health, processing of emotion and maternal sensitivity, City, University of London (2013-2018)
• BSc Psychology with Clinical Psychology, University of Kent

Dr Webb's research centers on birth trauma assessment, perinatal PTSD, and barriers to mental healthcare access. She developed the City Birth Trauma Scale (BiTS) and City Infant Faces Database, with work spanning cross-cultural validations, intervention studies, and evidence syntheses. Her focus on maternal sensitivity and emotional processing informs clinical practice and policy development in perinatal settings.

Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals dominant trends in birth trauma screening tools, international validation studies, and systematic reviews of perinatal interventions. Key subfields include PTSD assessment in maternity staff, fear-of-childbirth treatments, and pandemic impacts on maternal mental health, demonstrating interdisciplinary collaboration across psychology, obstetrics, and public health.

She actively contributes to three flagship projects:

• MATRIx study: Developing conceptual frameworks for implementing perinatal mental health care
• INTERSECT study: Investigating perinatal mental healthcare systems
• ADORE project: Focusing on depression outcomes in reproductive experiences

Her research is supported by multiple grants enabling large-scale collaborations across UK healthcare institutions and international partners, with future work likely expanding BiTS applications and trauma-informed care models.