Speaker
Dr. Simona Skripkauskaite
PostDoctoral Researcher working across the departaments of Psychiatry and Experiemntal Psychology at the University of Oxford
Biography
Dr. Simona Skripkauskaite is a PostDoctoral Researcher working across the departaments of Psychiatry and Experiemntal Psychology at the University of Oxford. Specifically, she with the Oxford’s Co-SPACE study (COVID-19: Supporting Parents, Adolescents and Children During Pandemics) and the OxWell Student Survey. Dr. Skripkauskaite is also the UK lead on an ESRC/JSPS funded project on ‘Learning from the trajectories of mental health challenges for children, young people and parents over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic’, which will compare how families have been affected by the pandemic in the UK and Japan. Overall, Dr. Skripkauskaite’s research to date has aimed to identify developmental processes underlying successful functioning, but has ranged across child and adolescent mental health, emotion regulation, and parent-child relationships, as well as neurodiversity, visual attention, and perception.