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Anjuli Kaul

Anjuli Kaul

Research Assistant

Biography

Anjuli is a research assistant at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London. She graduated from King’s College London in 2018 with a Neuroscience (Hons) BSc before working as a research assistant at the Wolfson Centre for Age Related Diseases investigating whether TRPA1-mediated regulation of glial cell potassium channels and potassium syphoning affects action potential recovery after burst neuronal activity or ischaemia.

In 2019 she joined the Section of Women’s Mental Health where she has worked on multiple grants including the UKRI Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network, the Modern Slavery Core Outcomes Set (MS-COS) and NIHR RIVA project. In 2022, she worked with the NIHR Global Health Research Group at University College London to develop a training manual for MHPSS service providers in Afghanistan to support women who have experienced trauma and abuse. Her research focuses primarily on the interplay between domestic and sexual violence and mental health.

Research Interests

  • Domestic and sexual violence, coercive control, psychological abuse, human trafficking, trauma.
  • Global mental health research.
  • Psychiatric epidemiology.
  • Mental health service / intervention evaluation

Research Groups

  • The RIVA Study
  • UKRI Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network
  • The Modern Slavery Core Outcomes Set (MS-COS)

Teaching

Anjuli has co-supervised dissertations from Psychology BSc and Mental Health Studies MSc students.

Expertise & Public Engagement

Anjuli has run a variety of public engagement events on the topic of violence, abuse and mental health including webinars, workshops, conferences and art showcases. She has also written three blogs for the Mental Elf.

She also writes the UKRI VAMHN monthly research newsletter which circulates information about state-of-the-art research, ongoing research studies and training and events related to violence, abuse and mental health. She created the online VAMHN forum and online data, expert, network and blog directory resources which aim to connect individuals and organisations working in the field of domestic/sexual violence and mental health to foster cross-sector and interdisciplinary collaboration, and to signpost key datasets and resources relevant to violence researchers.

Key Publications

  • Kaul, A., Mannell, J., Ahmad, A., Saboor, L., & Paphitis, S. (2022). Providing MHPSS support for women in Afghanistan: A Manual for Service Providers. University College London.

  • Lajoso, W., Flower, G., Giacco, V., Kaul, A., La Mache, C., Brăban, A., Roxas, A., & Hamilton, N. B. (2021). Transient receptor potential ankyrin-1 (TRPA1) block protects against loss of white matter function during ischaemia in the mouse optic nerve. Pharmaceuticals, 14(9), [909]. https://doi.org/10.3390/ph14090909

  • Oram S, Fisher HL, Minnis H, Seedat S, Walby S, Hegarty K, et al. The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on intimate partner violence and mental health: advancing mental health services, research, and policy. The Lancet Psychiatry. 2022;9(6):487-524. 

 

 

Research

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Section of Women’s Mental Health

The Section of Women’s Mental Health (SWMH) undertakes mental health services and policy research with a primary focus on women’s mental health. We carry out global research into the gendered determinants of mental health problems and the needs of women with mental health problems using epidemiological and qualitative methods and develop and evaluate interventions to meet those needs and inform health policy. Our work contributes to policymaking and healthcare practice both nationally and internationally.

Research

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Section of Women’s Mental Health

The Section of Women’s Mental Health (SWMH) undertakes mental health services and policy research with a primary focus on women’s mental health. We carry out global research into the gendered determinants of mental health problems and the needs of women with mental health problems using epidemiological and qualitative methods and develop and evaluate interventions to meet those needs and inform health policy. Our work contributes to policymaking and healthcare practice both nationally and internationally.

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