Anastasia joined IoPPN Department of Psychosis Studies at KCL in 2023 after working as a Teaching Fellow in Psychology at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). She has completed her PhD Psychology at QMUL in 2022, as well as BSc Psychology (2017) and MSc Clinical Mental Health Sciences (2018) at University College London (UCL).

Anastasia’s PhD research explored cognitive biases, mental health, and discrimination in refugee and ethnic minority groups, highlighting the need to decolonise psychological research and broaden its applicability to non-WEIRD populations. Since then, her work has expanded to examine mental and physical health inequalities across a range of under-researched communities. Anastasia collaborates extensively with grassroots organisations and community partners to co-develop research on social exclusion, housing insecurity, language access, and creative mental health interventions. Her projects often centre on lived experience, participatory methods, and qualitative inquiry.

In her educational role, Anastasia teaches across several MSc modules in statistics, systematic reviews, social and community mental health, and research methods. She is also a personal tutor and dissertation supervisor, committed to making education inclusive, engaging, and responsive to student needs.

She also leads the INSPIRE programme, supporting student-led research on health inequality, and hosts the IoPPN Compass Podcast, a student–staff initiative designed to guide MSc students through their academic journey at King’s. Listen to it here: https://media.kcl.ac.uk/playlist/details/1_0zt337ti

 Research Interests: 

• Mental health inequality
• Non-WEIRD groups
• Discrimination
• Migration
• Cognitive biases
• Health psychology

Teaching: 

Anastasia is currently teaching on 7PCSISTA Introductory Statistics, 7PALMSYS Systematic Review in Mental Health, 7PCSCMH Social and Community Mental Health and 7PCSERME Early Intervention in Psychosis Research Methods modules, as well as supervising master’s dissertation projects across MSc.

Expertise and Public Engagement: 

Anastasia has spent several years working in a charity sector (Refugee Council), where she developed an expertise working with asylum seekers and refugees. She still maintains close working relationship with the organisation and advises on Russia-Ukraine War refugees.

In line with her almshouse research, Anastasia actively collaborates with the Almshouse Association – the largest charity supporting almshouses across the UK, and St Saviour United Charity. She often speaks on almshouses’ positive impact on physical and mental health at public events, as well as a report Anastasia co-authored has been featured in the media, such as pieces in the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/22/almshouse-residents-may-live-up-to-two-and-a-half-years-longer-study-finds) and the Financial Times (https://www.ft.com/content/a63bf568-53e5-4020-98f7-9ae34d526232).

Orchid ID: 

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1781-9082