I am a first-year PhD student in the Forensic and Clinical Cognition Lab. I volunteered with the Lab in 2023 before completing my Honours project in 2024 under the supervision of Dr Victoria Bridgland. My Honours thesis investigated the characteristics of self-triggering in people with eating disorder symptoms. Self-triggering is a behaviour where people deliberately seek content or situations that will cause a strong negative emotional response and intensify psychopathological symptoms.

My current research aims to further investigate characteristics of self-triggering, i.e., method, motivation, frequency, level of distress, level of compulsivity. Additionally, I aim to investigate the relationship between self-triggering and eating disorder symptoms, because self-triggering may facilitate the maintenance and development of eating disorders. I am also interested in the role of emotion regulation deficits in self-triggering. Ultimately, I aim to understand how we might reduce the negative consequences of self-triggering behaviours.

In my free time, I’m usually either hiking or at the track with my motorcycle.