Isabella is a Research Officer for the Mental Health research theme. Their work tends to focus on mental health, self-harm and neurodivergence in young people, with a current focus of how this might relate to school attendance.
This comes after a PhD at Cardiff University, affiliated with the Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health at Cardiff and the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Karolinska Institutet, on late or missed ADHD diagnosis in young people, and the sex differences. This involved experiences with various big longitudinal datasets, and collaborative projects including inclusive language use in ADHD, ADHD presentation in girls, and the development of a new gender-inclusive ADHD screening tool.