Speaker
Lydia Gabriela Speyer
Biography
Dr Lydia Gabriela Speyer’s research focuses on the development of co-occurring mental health problems during childhood and adolescence. She is also interested in quantitative methodology, particularly in relation to longitudinal data analysis. Lydia is currently finishing her PhD at the University of Edinburgh and joined the Blakemore Lab to work on the Cambridge Mind App (CaM-App) study which investigates the mental health trajectories of adolescents and adults around the globe during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic using an innovative smartphone app. The CaM-App study collects data on mental health, as well as phone-based data such as app usage, movement and sleeping data to gain comprehensive insights into which behaviours might exacerbate or mitigate the negative effects of loneliness during social-distancing.