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Jessica Bird
BSc(Hons), DClinPsy
Research Clinical Psychologist & NIHR Research Fellow
- The Feeling Safe Study
My research aims to improve the assessment, understanding, and treatment of specific psychotic experiences - with a particular focus on paranoia - in adolescence. This involves developing better assessment tools, talking to young people about their experiences, and identifying the key mechanisms driving psychotic experiences at this age. The aim is to use this knowledge to develop more effective interventions to help young people feel safer, happier, and do more of what is important to them.
I also work as a trial therapist on the Feeling Safe study, a randomised controlled trial of a novel psychological treatment for persecutory delusions, and gameChange, a project aiming to transform services for patients with psychosis by providing psychological therapies using immersive virtual reality.
I am an HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist and completed my doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford in 2016.
Education
Current: DPhil in Psychiatry, Magdalen College, University of Oxford (Expected 2020)
2016 Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford
2010 BSc (1st Hons) Psychology, University of York
Key publications
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Bird JC. et al, (2018), Schizophr Bull
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Bird JC. et al, (2020), Schizophr Res, 220, 116 - 122
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Bird JC. et al, (2017), Psychiatry research, 257, 34 - 39
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Byrne RE. et al, (2020), EClinicalMedicine, 100417 - 100417
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RE B. et al, (2020), EClinicalMedicine, 100421 - 100421
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Freeman D. et al, (2019), Psychol Med, 1 - 10
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Freeman D. et al, (2019), Psychol Med, 1 - 10
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Waite F. et al, (2018), Front Psychiatry, 9
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Freeman D. et al, (2019), BJPsych Open, 5
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Freeman D. et al, (2019), Compr Psychiatry, 93, 41 - 47
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Waite F. et al, (2019), BJPsych Open, 5