Valerie West
Research Manager
- I support grant applications within the department and have successfully coordinated applications to a range of funders since 2004 within Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
- I provide support for the REF 2021 exercise for Unit of Assessment 4 (Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience) and have previously provided administrative support for both REF 2014 and RAE 2008.
- I coordinate research within the Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, including planning resourcing, budgets, grant applications and research ethics applications.
Recent publications
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Mitigating the effect of persistent postnatal depression on child outcomes through an intervention to treat depression and improve parenting: a randomised controlled trial.
Journal article
Stein A. et al, (2018), Lancet Psychiatry, 5, 134 - 144
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Maternal postnatal depression and anxiety and their association with child emotional negativity and behavior problems at two years.
Journal article
Prenoveau JM. et al, (2017), Dev Psychol, 53, 50 - 62
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Postpartum GAD is a risk factor for postpartum MDD: The course and longitudinal relationships of postpartum GAD and MDD
Journal article
Prenoveau J. et al, (2013), Depression and Anxiety, 30, 506 - 514
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Six degrees of separation: on the prior probability that schizophrenia susceptibility genes converge on synapses, glutamate and NMDA receptors.
Journal article
Harrison PJ. and West VA., (2006), Mol Psychiatry, 11, 981 - 983