Nora Uglik-Marucha

Nora started her PhD in 2022 as part of the NIHR Doctoral Fellowship at the Psychometrics & Measurement Lab in the Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics. Her focus is on developing a novel questionnaire to assess autism in women. This research project is supervised by Dr Silia Vitoratou, Prof Francesca Happé, and Dr Hannah Belcher. Prior to this, she was awarded an NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, during which she pursued a PGDip in Applied Statistical Modelling & Health Informatics at King’s College London. As a part of this fellowship, she also investigated gender bias in autism screening, for which she conducted gender-related measurement invariance investigations of different model frameworks of the Autism Quotient. Before her pre-doctoral fellowships, she worked as a research assistant at the Psychometrics & Measurement Lab, where she was trained in contemporary psychometrics methods and was involved in the development of a new questionnaire for measuring misophonia. Alongside her statistical background, she hold an MSc in Clinical Neuropsychiatry and a BSc in Psychology, both obtained from King’s College London.

Research interests

• Autism in women
• Psychometrics
• Questionnaire development
• Misophonia

Key publications

Vitoratou, S., Hayes, C., Uglik-Marucha, N., Pearson, O., Graham, T., & Gregory, J. (2023). Misophonia in the UK: Prevalence and norms from the S-five in a UK representative sample. PLOS ONE, 18(3). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0282777   Vitoratou, S., Uglik-Marucha, N., Hayes, C., & Gregory, J. (2021). Listening to people with misophonia: Exploring the multiple dimensions of sound intolerance using a new psychometric tool, the S-Five, in a large sample of individuals identifying with the condition. Psych, 3(4), 639–662. doi:10.3390/psych3040041   More: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/eleonora.1.uglik-marucha/publications/