Hayley is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London. She is currently working on the DISCA project which aims to help parents, carers, and health professionals to manage sleep problems in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Hayley developed the cognitive tasks that are administered to the children with ADHD during the trial.

Hayley completed her MRC-DTP funded PhD at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King's College London. Her PhD focussed on the application of remote measurement technology to identify health behaviours and targets for intervention in individuals with ADHD. Previously, Hayley had been involved in the ADHD Remote Technology (ART) research programme since 2019, where she worked as a Research Assistant on the ART pilot study, which developed a remote monitoring battery to help assess and manage ADHD symptoms and impairments. Hayley was then involved as study co-ordinator of the ADHD Remote Technology study of cardiometabolic risk factors and medication adherence (ART-CARMA), a large EU funded project using remote measurement technology to follow 300 adults with ADHD for 12 months.

Before joining the SGDP, Hayley spent two years working at Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London researching psychiatric risk in children with intellectual disability of known genetic aetiology, and a year researching sleep in children in children with neurodevelopmental disorders at the Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the University of Birmingham. 

Research interests

• Digital technologies
• Sleep
• ADHD

Key Publications

Barnes, A., Denyer, H., Simblett, S., Nordby, E. S., Bilbow, A., Hayashi, W., Hoven, N., Marriott, H., Müller-Sedgwick, U., Rocks, P., Whitwell, S., Larsson, H., Folarin, A., Ramos-Qurioga, J. A., Dobson, R. J., & Kuntsi, J. (2026). Perceptions of adults with ADHD on pharmacological treatment initiation and subsequent adherence: a thematic analysis. Psychiatry research, 356, 116880. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2025.116880

Denyer, H., Carr, E., Deng, Q., Asherson, P., Bilbow, A., Folarin, A., Groom, M. J., Hollis, C., Sankesara, H., Dobson, R. J., & Kuntsi, J. (2025). A 10-week remote monitoring study of sleep features and their variability in individuals with and without ADHD. BMC psychiatry, 25(1), 294. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-025-06729-z