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Sarah Halligan is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath and serves as Deputy Head of Department for Culture and Environment. She leads the Addiction and Mental Health Group (AIM) and is actively involved in research on psychological disorders in young people.
- Education: BA in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge; DPhil in Clinical Psychology from the University of Oxford.
Her research focuses on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression in children and adolescents, examining cognitive-behavioral, biological, and social contributors to these disorders. She investigates how parental behaviors and mental health influence child development and identify intervention targets.
The trends in her publications include longitudinal studies on trauma exposure, meta-analyses of PTSD symptom severity, qualitative studies on caregiving in high-risk contexts (e.g., South Africa), and neurodevelopmental links between maternal depression and offspring mental health. Her work contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goal on Education.
Grants and Projects include funding from the Economic and Social Research Council and The Academy of Medical Sciences for studies on parental responses to child trauma, longitudinal impacts of trauma, and online information frameworks for trauma-exposed families. She collaborates internationally, including in South Africa and LMICs.
