Eileen Brobbin is a Research Associate at the Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience at King's College London.

Eileen is working on an NIHR-funded grant investigating cocaine use with Virtual Reality (VR) enhanced Cue Exposure Therapy (CET), integrated with a wearable device, to improve treatment for people with cocaine dependence.

Eileen joined the Department of Addictions Sciences at King's College London in February 2019 after receiving her MSc in Addiction Studies from King's. Over the years she has worked on various research projects within the department, including the ADAM trial as part of the Alcohol Research Group.

From 2020 and 2024 she completed her PhD at King's. Her thesis is entitled: Harnessing wearable transdermal alcohol sensor devices for clinical use, which investigated wrist-worn transdermal alcohol sensors to measure alcohol consumption with NHS patients accessing alcohol treatment.

Her MSc dissertation (2018) explored smoker’s perceptions on Stop Smoking Support and Stop Smoking Advisors as well as the effect a campaign can have on them.

Prior to this, Eileen has also completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Person Centred Counselling Skills at the University of East Anglia and an Undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Exeter. She completed her dissertation on gambling addiction using inhibition training and a subsequent betting task. This was to explore the possibility of using bottom-up processing as treatment in gambling addiction.

Research Interests

• Wearable technology to monitor drug and alcohol use.