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Emma Hill

Graduate Student, Emotion Group

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Emma Hill

Contact details

E-mail address: emma.hill@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 355294 (extension 334)
Direct line: +44 (0)1223 01223 273721
Fax: +44 (0)1223 359062
Address: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15 Chaucer Road,
Cambridge,
CB2 7EF

Research areas

  • I am a 2nd year PhD student with Dr Tim Dalgleish in the emotion group.
  • My interests lie in improving existing therapies for mental health problems, more specifically how changing cognitive processes influence symptomology, emotions and thought processes.
  • My PhD involves developing and testing the effects of a novel perspective broadening training programme with individuals who have suffered with Major Depressive Disorder (during and in-between episodes). The effectiveness is being tested using behavioural measures, experience sampling techniques and fMRI.

Background:

Whilst completing my Applied Psychology degree at the University of Kent at Canterbury, I spent my placement year working in the emotion group here at the CBU. With Dr Philip Barnard I investigated the role of impact and positive affect in attention, and with Dr Tim Dalgleish I worked on life chapters in depression. I then went on to conduct an EEG study as a follow-up to the impact work.

After graduating, I worked as a Research Assistant for Dr Robert Dudas at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. The study investigated the role disgust plays in BPD and MDD. This was in partnership with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and the Complex Cases Service for personality disorders.

Publications:

Murphy, F. C., Hill, E. L., Ramponi, C., Calder, A. J., & Barnard, P. J. (2010). Paying Attention to Emotional Images with Impact. Emotion, 10, 605-614.

Dalgleish, T., Hill, E., Golden, A.J., Morant, N., & Dunn, B.D. (2011). The Structure of Past and Future Lives in Depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 1-15.