Irene Gonzalez-Calvo
PhD Student
Irene started her LISS-DTP (ESRC) funded PhD at the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health (Queen Mary, University of London) in October 2022. She is supervised by Dr Georgina Hosang (Primary supervisor) and Prof. Angelica Ronald (University of Surrey, Secondary supervisor).
Her PhD aims to identify the risk factors and long-term mental health and functional (e.g., education) outcomes of adolescent subclinical hypomania. Her project uses data from the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) to assess the degree of genetic and environmental influences in hypomania and bipolar disorder.
In addition to her PhD, Irene currently works as Graduate Teaching Associate at the School of Biological & Behavioural Sciences (Queen Mary). Before starting her PhD, she worked as an assistant psychologist and research assistant with adolescents with emotional disorders in transdiagnostic intervention programmes. She has also experience in neurocognitive rehabilitation and delivering substance misuse interventions in forensic contexts.
Irene gained a BA in Applied Psychology and Sociology at the University of Brighton, an MSc (Distinction) in Forensic Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, and an MSc (Distinction) in Psychopathology, Health and Clinical Interventions at UNED University.