Professor Caroline Edmonds

Professor Caroline Edmonds

Professor of Experimental Psychology

Professor

Health and Wellbeing Research Group

Department of Psychology & Human Development , School of Childhood and Social Care

Caroline Edmonds is Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of East London (UEL) and Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton. Her PhD was at the Department of Psychology at UCL. She then spent 7 years as a Research Fellow at the MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Centre at the Institute of Child Health, UCL, before moving to UEL.

Qualifications

  • 2008 - PG Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Merit, University of East London
  • 2001 - PhD Psychology, University College London
  • 1995 - BSc Psychology, First Class Honours, Goldsmiths' College
Professor Caroline Edmonds

OVERVIEW

I teach on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and enjoy supporting our students on their academic journeys. I supervise research students at all levels.

My academic leadership roles enable the success of others by encouraging a supportive, inclusive environment in the School and University. These roles focus on equality, inclusion and research. I am School Athena SWAN champion, led our recent successful Bronze Award application, and continue to lead the group in its work towards a School Silver application. I have served on the institutional Athena SWAN group since its inception. I also formally and informally mentor staff in both the School and University.

I actively work to build a supportive research environment within which all School research can thrive. For example, I initiated and lead the School’s Writing programme, which has galvanised a change to an enriched research culture in the School and increased journal submissions by participants.

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CURRENT RESEARCH

The focus of my research is to investigate factors that affect cognitive performance in children and adults, including typically developing children in schools, and children who suffered adverse events around birth that could result in brain damage.

Research on hydration aims to explore the effects of drinking water on cognitive performance and mood. This work examines groups "at risk" of dehydration, including children and older adults, and the normal population.  Fundamental work has concentrated on the parameters of the effect of water supplementation on cognitive performance, including the particular cognitive processes affected and mechanistic explanations. This research has provided foundations for applied research, for example the association between fluid availability and students' performance in exams.

Research on long term neurodevelopmental outcome after early difficulties includes the effect of pre- and post-natal nutritional influences on cognition, brain structure and the relationship between the two. Further work includes the investigation of long term neurodevelopmental outcome in children who suffered adverse effects on the peri/neonatal period, or who were born preterm or with intrauterine growth restriction. Current funded projects focus on the long term impact on neurocognitive development in children with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) that was treated with therapeutic hypothermia.

Visit my personal webpage to view my research.

FUNDING

My work is funded currently or previously by Action Medical Research, the Sir Halley Stewart Trust, European Hydration Institute, Nestec and the Nuffield Foundation. 

TEACHING

I contribute to Developmental Psychology modules on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. I supervise research students at all levels, including BSc, MSc, PhD and Professional Doctorates.

EXTERNAL ROLES

Visiting Fellow, Clinical Neuroscience, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton

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