Lauren Stewart
School of Psychology, Roehampton University
Lauren Stewart
Lauren Stewart’s undergraduate degree was in Physiological Sciences at Balliol College Oxford, where she also studied for an MSc in Neuroscience. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL), followed by postdoctoral positions at Newcastle University and a travelling fellowship to Harvard Medical School. Prior to starting at Roehampton, she was at Goldsmiths, University of London where she founded the MSc programme in the Music, Mind and Brain lab. Her research has focused on topics including congenital amusia, musical training as a model of plasticity, and spontaneous musical imagery while her current projects focus on the application of participatory music-based interventions to support perinatal mental health, particularly in the Global South.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Gambia; Lesotho; South Africa; |
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| Topics | Perinatal mental health; |
| Methods | Assessment tool development; Co-production methods; Creative research methods; Ethnography; Knowledge-exchange; Practice-based approaches; Qualitative studies; Quantitative data analysis; Questionnaire; Theory of Change; Translation and cultural adaptation of instruments; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Global Perinatal Mental Health; |
| Website | https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/lauren-stewart |
| ORC.ID | 0000-0002-6221-6064 |
| GOOGLE SCHOLAR | https://g.co/kgs/LDHV9z6 |
| Other 1 | http://www.chimeproject.com; |
| Research interests | Perinatal Mental Health Participatory and arts-based approaches to health Cognitive neuroscience of music Social synchrony |
| Key publications | Sanfilippo, K. R. M., McConnell, B., Darboe, B., Huma, H. B., Glover, V., & Stewart, L. (2023). The experience of maternal mental distress in The Gambia: A qualitative study identifying idioms of distress, perceptions of contributing factors and the supporting role of existing cultural practices. PLOS Global Public Health, 3(9),e0002329. Stewart, L., McConnell, B. B., Darboe, B., Glover, V., Huma, H. B., Sanfilippo, K. R. M., … & Cornelius, V. (2022). Social singing, culture and health: interdisciplinary insights from the CHIME project for perinatal mental health in The Gambia. Health Promotion International, 37(Supplement_1), i18-i25. Sanfilippo, K. R. M., Stewart, L., & Glover, V. (2021). How music may support perinatal mental health: an overview. Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 1-9. |