Speaker
Maria Loades
Professor, Department of Psychology at University of Bath, Clinical Psychologist, Researcher.
Biography
Dr. Maria Loades is a Reader/Clinical Tutor for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme at the University of Bath, UK. Maria qualified as a Clinical Psychologist from the University of East Anglia in 2008 and subsequently worked in a variety of NHS mental health services, predominantly community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). She completed a post-graduate diploma in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for children, young people and families at the Anna Freud
Centre/University College London in 2013, and a Postgraduate Certificate in the Supervision of Applied Psychology Practice at the University of Oxford in 2015.
Maria secured an NIHR doctoral research fellowship in 2016 to further her research into depression in paediatric fatigue. Maria subsequently held an NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement award (2022-2023), and now has an NIHR advanced fellowship (2023-2028), focusing on improving access to early help for adolescent depression symptoms. This will include testing online single session interventions as an expansion to current provision in the UK.