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Bridget Bryan

Ms Bridget Bryan

PhD student

  • Research Assistant

Biography

Project Title: Experiences of loneliness, isolation and work: an investigation of risk/resilience factors and consequences for health and functional outcomes.

Bridget is a PhD student at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. Her PhD is an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods project investigating the associations between loneliness, social isolation and work, and their implication for mental health and socio-economic outcomes. This project particularly aims to identify gaps in the existing knowledge around loneliness and work, gain detailed insight into experiences of workplace loneliness, and examine the role of loneliness in poor employment outcomes in young adulthood. This project also aims to identify workplace risk factors for loneliness and their implications for workers’ health and wellbeing.

Bridget Bryan joined the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre as a Research Assistant in 2018. After completing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology and Sociology at the University of Sydney, Bridget completed an MSc in Sociology at the University of Oxford. Before joining King’s she worked in research focusing on workplace mental health and the Australian forensic mental health system at the University of New South Wales and Mental Health Commission of New South Wales, as well as on a project examining museum leadership in the United Kingdom at the University of Oxford.

Research interests

  • Workplace mental health 
  • Loneliness
  • Critical whiteness studies
  • Arts-based research methods

    Research

    PALM logo (780 x 440 px)
    Platforms for Longitudinal Mental Health Data (PALM)

    The Platforms for Longitudinal Mental Health Data (PALM) team, led by Professor Louise Arseneault, focuses on increasing the discoverability and accessibility of longitudinal mental health data.

    LILD Header (780 x 440 px)
    Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets

    A global mapping of large-scale longitudinal datasets with the potential for transformative research on depression, anxiety and psychosis.

    Project status: Ongoing

    CMHM Header (780 x 440 px)
    Catalogue of Mental Health Measures

    The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures provides easy access to information about mental health measures to maximise the uptake of existing longitudinal data.

    Project status: Ongoing

    News

    Lonely secondary school students less likely to gain employment in adulthood

    New research has found that there is a direct socioeconomic impact of loneliness in early adolescence.

    School children working

    New report analyses worldwide longitudinal datasets to improve mental health research

    A new report led by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London and commissioned by Wellcome...

    landscaping longitudinal research

    Lonely teenagers at greater risk of poor educational outcomes

    Research from King’s College London finds that loneliness experienced at age 12 increases the risk of finishing school with poor grades, as well as poor...

    ECSTeenboyReadingimg

      Research

      PALM logo (780 x 440 px)
      Platforms for Longitudinal Mental Health Data (PALM)

      The Platforms for Longitudinal Mental Health Data (PALM) team, led by Professor Louise Arseneault, focuses on increasing the discoverability and accessibility of longitudinal mental health data.

      LILD Header (780 x 440 px)
      Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets

      A global mapping of large-scale longitudinal datasets with the potential for transformative research on depression, anxiety and psychosis.

      Project status: Ongoing

      CMHM Header (780 x 440 px)
      Catalogue of Mental Health Measures

      The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures provides easy access to information about mental health measures to maximise the uptake of existing longitudinal data.

      Project status: Ongoing

      News

      Lonely secondary school students less likely to gain employment in adulthood

      New research has found that there is a direct socioeconomic impact of loneliness in early adolescence.

      School children working

      New report analyses worldwide longitudinal datasets to improve mental health research

      A new report led by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London and commissioned by Wellcome...

      landscaping longitudinal research

      Lonely teenagers at greater risk of poor educational outcomes

      Research from King’s College London finds that loneliness experienced at age 12 increases the risk of finishing school with poor grades, as well as poor...

      ECSTeenboyReadingimg