Kevin's interests lie within understanding the complexities of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. He wants to develop Genetic Counsellors knowledge in Psychiatric Genetics and investigate how this will benefit people with psychiatric illness and their families.

Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Canada

Jehannine is interested in how people perceive risk in the context of genetics, and the effects of genetic counselling for people with psychiatric disorders and their families.  I am particularly interested in improving outcomes for people with mental illness and their families by helping them to better understand the causes of mental illness.
 

Professor of Reproductive Health, Faculty Health and Social Science, Bournemouth University, UK

In his previous post at the University of Aberdeen, Edwin van Teijlingen was a grant holder on two studies funded by the Wellcome Trust which explored family communication about genetic risk and how young people experienced growing up at risk of late-onset familial disease.

Genetic Councillor, Neurosciences & Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff, UK

Dr Cuthbert is working to improve the understanding of biological mechanisms that underlie major psychiatric disorders such as autism, schizophrenia and ADHD. He is a member of a large team of researchers investigating the impacts of genetic changes associated with learning disability, neuropsychiatric disorders and developmental delay. This work is directly coupled with translational neuroscience research to redefine the nosology psychiatric disorders, transforming patient diagnosis and treatment.

Lecturer, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babes Bolyai University, Romania

Ramona's background is clinical psychology and psychotherapy; she was trained in cognitive and behavioral psychotherapies at the Albert Ellis Insitute, USA. She was trained in genetic counselling at the University of Manchester, UK. Over the last 10 years she participated in or coordinated a number of experimental and clinical trials investigating the predictors of the efficacy of CBT as well as the psychological factors associated with several psychiatric and genetic disorders. One of her current projects is a randomized controlled trial exploring the efficacy of genetic counselling for severe mental disorders.

Consultant Genetic Counsellor, Wessex Clinical Genetics Service (NHS), Southampton, UK

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Institute of Hunan Genetics, University of Bonn, Germany.

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Research assistant / PhD Student, Bournemouth University, UK

Stephen worked full time as a research asssistant, funded by HEIF 5+1 during 2015/16. He continues to work one day per week on this project whilst undertaking his PhD in the Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University. Stephen has 15 years NHS experience and is responsible for the organisation of the HEIF 5+1+1 project.

PhD Student, Bournemouth University, UK

Zara is a BU Studentship holder doing her PhD in statistical genetics enititled “a novel approach for the detection of opint mutation”.  Her main interest is statistical and mathematical genetics, Drosophila’s gene expression signal extraction, change point detection and image processing.

Final year BA Media Production Student

Chelsea is the media producer and creative director for the team. She helps create a media packages and content for the website and team. Her other role include- Editor, art director, web designer etc.

PhD Student, Bournemouth University, UK

Kalon is a PhD researcher at Bournemouth University, supervised by Dr Kevin McGhee and Dr Paul Hartley. His research utilises the popular model organism Drosophila melanogaster to investigate some genetic interactions which are linked to the development of neurological disorders and associated symptoms.”