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lydia.munns@psych.ox.ac.uk

Lydia Munns

Postdoctoral Researcher

Biography

Lydia Munns is a Postdoctoral Researcher within the Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry. Lydia supports work aiming to improve access to children with mental health difficulties, as part of the TOPIC research group. Lydia is currently working on the OCD Empower project, which aims to adapt an online intervention to support children with OCD and their parents.

Lydia completed her PhD at the University of York in 2024. Her thesis focused on bodily experiences during pregnancy, and their relationships with mother and infant outcomes including mental health, attachment and breastfeeding experiences. Alongside this work, she worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Bath supporting the development of an app supporting adults with OCD, and as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of York.

Prior to this, Lydia completed her MSc in Clinical Mental Health Research at University College London, following her work as an Assistant Psychologist across multiple child and adolescent NHS services.

Research interests

  • Child & adolescent mental health
  • Neurodiversity 
  • Perinatal mental health and body representation

Publications

2024

  • Munns, L. B., & Preston, C. (2024). The role of bodily experiences during pregnancy on mother and infant outcomes. Journal of neuropsychology, 10.1111/jnp.12370

  • Munns, L. B., Crossland, A. E., McPherson, M., Panagiotopoulou, E., & Preston, C. E. (2024). Developing a new measure of retrospective body dissatisfaction: links to postnatal bonding and psychological well-being. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 1-16. 

  • Munns, L., Spark, N., Crossland, A., & Preston, C. (2024). The effects of yoga-based interventions on postnatal mental health and well-being: A systematic review. Heliyon, 10(3), E25455.

  • Munns, L. B., Demnitz-King, H., André, C., Rehel, S., Ourry, V., de La Sayette, V., ... & Marchant, N. L. (2024). Associations Between Repetitive Negative Thinking and Objective and Subjective Sleep Health in Cognitively Healthy Older Adults. Nature and Science of Sleep, 233-245.

  • Stafford, L., Munns, L., Crossland, A., Kirk, E., & Preston, C. (2024). Bonding with Bump: interoceptive sensibility moderates the relationship between pregnancy body satisfaction and antenatal attachment. Midwifery, 103940

2023

  • Crossland, A. E., Munns, L., Kirk, E., & Preston, C. E. J. (2023). Comparing body image dissatisfaction between pregnant women and non-pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 23(1), 709.

  • Demnitz-King, H., Saba, L., Lau, Y., Munns, L., Zabihi, S., Schlosser, M., ... & Marchant, N. L. (2023). Association between anxiety symptoms and Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in cognitively healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 111159. 

2021

  • Munns, L., Williams, C., Carthigesan, S., Wilson, S. (2021) Is a sleep clinic effective at reducing sleep disturbance in children with complex neurodevelopmental difficulties and does gender influence this? Clinical Psychology Forum (338).