Speaker
Aja Murray
Professor of Developmental Psychology of Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Biography
I joined the Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh as a Lecturer in 2018. My research focuses on developmental aspects of mental health, especially ADHD, internalising problems, and their co-occurrence. A second area of focus is on quantitative methodology, especially longitudinal, ecological momentary assessment, and measurement burst methodologies. Current projects include the Mental Health in the Moment (MHIM) study of adolescent mental health, the MHIM-ADHD study of mental health in adolescent ADHD, the DigiCAT project focused on making counterfactual analysis more accessible, and the development of a digital health intervention for emotion dysregulation in ADHD.
Prior to joining the department, I was a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge where I researched developmental trajectories of mental health issues and their co-occurrence. I also previously worked as a Research Associate in the Violence Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. There I worked on developmental trajectories of ADHD symptoms and conduct problems in the Zurich Project on Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood (z-proso) and later on the Evidence for Better Lives Study.