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Katy Jones

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Teaching Summary

Undergraduate (A100 Medicine)

  • Communication Skills (Years 1 and 2)
  • Behavioural Sciences (Years 1 and 2)

Postgraduate (Masters in Mental Health and Forensic Doctorate)

  • Dementia
  • Alcohol and Substance Use

Professional (MRCPsych)

  • Social Psychology

Research Summary

Summary

I am interested in alcohol and substance use, and mental health at different time-points across the lifespan. I am interested in lived experience using qualitative methods. I am also interested in mechanisms that may underlie or maintain such problems including impulse control and decision-making.

Populations

  • Offenders and staff in forensic services
  • Older adults and retirees
  • University students

Research groups

Dementia Operational Group, Institute of Mental Health (older adults)

Current and recently completed projects

  • NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (Co-investigator) £219,073 (24 months). Does knowledge of liver fibrosis affect high-risk drinking behaviour (KLIFAD) A feasibility randomised controlled trial. 2020-2023.
  • Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Canada (Co-investigator) ($19,665). Duration:18 months. Title: The use of combined Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) and cognitive training to modulate decision-making in healthy people. In progress.
  • MRC Confidence in Concept (Joint PI). £99,391 (12 months). Measuring cortical dynamics of inhibitory control before, during and after Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS). Feb 2018-2019.
  • Wellcome Trust (consultant) with Professor Ellen Townsend and Professor Joanne Hort (PIs). Using 'Café Connect' as a Public Engagement Tool. Grant supported 4 x studies about alcohol use in people over 65 (October 2016- September 2017). Completed 2017.

Please get in touch by e-mail for any collaboration.

Recent Publications

  • TRUNDLE, GRACE, JONES, KATY A., ROPAR, DANIELLE and EGAN, VINCENT, 2023. The forensic implications of camouflaging: a study into victimisation and offending associated with autism and pathological demand avoidance ADVANCES IN AUTISM. 9(2), 116-131
  • SUBHANI, MOHSAN, TALAT, USMAN, KNIGHT, HOLLY, MORLING, JOANNE R., JONES, KATY A., AITHAL, GURUPRASAD P., RYDER, STEPHEN D., LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY, JOY and RENNICK-EGGLESTONE, STEFAN, 2022. CHARACTERISTICS OF ALCOHOL RECOVERY NARRATIVES: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND NARRATIVE SYNTHESIS GUT. 71, A87-A87
  • THELU, MADELEINE, WEBSTER, BOBBIE, JONES, KATY and ORRELL, MARTIN, 2022. A cross sectional survey on UK older adult's attitudes to ageing, dementia and positive psychology attributes BMC GERIATRICS. 22(1),

Past Research

I worked at Swansea University (UK) for 4 years where I attained my PhD in the effects of recreational ecstasy and cannabis use on sleep and cognition. I then completed a postdoctoral position at University of Wollongong (Australia) measuring cognitive deficits in adolescent cannabis users with elevated impulsivity and risk-taking. Moving from New South Wales, I obtained a Senior Research Fellow position at Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre (Melbourne, Australia) where I managed two large Victorian government-funded projects, the first a qualitative and quantitative examination of benzodiazepine abuse and impulsive unplanned crime in long-term heroin addicts and the second, the development of a screening program for alcohol use in GP surgeries.

I have worked across a number of settings, and with different populations. At Nottingham, I am interested in the fluctuation of alcohol and substance use across the lifespan, from adolescence to young adulthood, to mid-life, and into old age. I am now interested in how impulsivity and decision-making has an impact on alcohol and substance use and mental health.

Centre for Dementia

The University of Nottingham
Institute of Mental Health
Jubilee Campus
Wollaton Road
Nottingham, NG8 1BB


telephone: +44 (0) 115 823 0421
email:tom.dening@nottingham.ac.uk