Gabi is a Research Assistant within the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHBA), Department of Psychological Medicine, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London. She is also her Centre’s Culture, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (CEDI) Representative.

Gabi joined the IoPPN in September 2022 when she began her Masters in Mental Health Studies. Shortly after, she joined CHBA, and now works as a Research Assistant, coordinating a portfolio of non-commercial studies and commercial trials, focusing on brain health, brain ageing, and preventing and treating mild cognitive impairment and early dementia.

Gabi also guest lectures at King’s and at other institutions, where she draws on her lived experiences of mental ill health, neurodivergence, and intersectional marginalisation. In addition, she spearheads and coordinates several initiatives centring and championing anti-racism, community outreach and participatory work, student and staff wellbeing, and intersectionality. 

Research Interests

• Mental health and neurodivergence
• Intersectionality and critical theories
• Participatory research and outreach
• Reflexivity and qualitative research with underserved communities

Research Groups

Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing

NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Health

King's Race Research Network (KRRN)

Teaching 

The Lived Experience Perspective (7PCSTLEP)

Expertise and Public Engagement

• Gabi coordinates the Critical Race, Equity, and Education Development (CREED) anti-racist student group at the IoPPN.
• Gabi co-led the creation of two anti-racist and decolonial zines as part of the two seminar series: “Decolonisation In:” and “Racism In:”

Key Publications 

Links to co-created zines: "connect the dots" and "disobedient subjects"