Nora is an NIHR Doctoral Fellowship funded PhD student within the Re:Spect Research group (2022/2023 and onwards), supervised by Dr Silia Vitoratou, Prof Francesca Happé, and Dr Hannah Belcher.

Her research focus is on addressing measurement bias in the assessment of autism presentation in women and developing a novel psychometric tool for the evaluation of autism in women.

Nora holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, a PGDip in Applied Statistical Modelling & Health Informatics, and an MSc in Clinical Neuropsychiatry, all of which she earned at King’s College London. Before her Doctoral Fellowship, she was an NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Psychometrics & Measurement Lab (King’s College London), where she studied gender bias in autism assessments using psychometric methods. She also worked as a research assistant at the same lab, contributing to the development of a new questionnaire for measuring misophonia

When she’s not studying, Nora can be found across various bouldering gyms in London or baking.

Research Interests:

• Autism in women
• Psychometrics

 

Teaching:

Nora supports the teaching of ‘Introduction to Applied Statistical Methods’ for two MSc programs in Affective Disorders and Clinical Neuropsychiatry.

She also assists in the teaching of ‘Contemporary Psychometrics’ for the MSc program in Applied Statistical Modelling & Health Informatics.