Dr Jessie Baldwin PhD
Visiting Researcher
Biography
Jessie is a Sir Henry Wellcome post-doctoral fellow at UCL and visiting researcher at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre at KCL. After completing an undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Warwick, Jessie joined KCL in 2013 to undertake an ESRC-funded 1+3 MSc + PhD in Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, supervised by Professors Andrea Danese and Louise Arseneault. She then worked as a post-doc at KCL (with Profs Andrea Danese and Terrie Moffitt) and at UCL (with Dr Jean-Baptiste Pingault), before starting a Sir Henry Wellcome Post-doctoral Fellowship in 2019.
Jessie’s research focuses on the role of childhood trauma in mental health. As part of this, she is interested in using quasi-experimental methods (e.g., genetically informative designs) to strengthen causal inference about the effects of childhood trauma. She is also interested in measurement of childhood trauma, and has led meta-analytic research into the agreement between prospective and retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment. Jessie is also enthusiastic about open science and co-leads the ReproducibiliTea journal club at UCL.
Research interests
- Childhood trauma
- Adverse childhood experiences
- Developmental psychopathology
- Causal inference
- Genetically informative methods
- Open science
Publications can be found on Google Scholar.
Research
Danese Lab: Stress & Development
The Stress & Development Lab is led by Andrea Danese, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. The Lab aims to understand how stressful experiences in childhood affect development and later health, and how to best support children who had such traumatic experiences.
INHERIT Lab
Inherit Lab studies large family databases to understand the role of genetic and environmental factors in the intergenerational continuity of mental health problems.
News
Screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has low accuracy for identifying individuals at high risk of developing mental and physical illnesses
New research from King’s College London suggests that screening people for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is not helpful to identify individuals at...
Research
Danese Lab: Stress & Development
The Stress & Development Lab is led by Andrea Danese, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. The Lab aims to understand how stressful experiences in childhood affect development and later health, and how to best support children who had such traumatic experiences.
INHERIT Lab
Inherit Lab studies large family databases to understand the role of genetic and environmental factors in the intergenerational continuity of mental health problems.
News
Screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has low accuracy for identifying individuals at high risk of developing mental and physical illnesses
New research from King’s College London suggests that screening people for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is not helpful to identify individuals at...