Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh PhD
Research Fellow
Biography
Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh’s research is focused on understanding how common mental health concerns run in families. She is a member of the INHERIT Lab, specialising in genetically informed, intergenerational research.
Dr Ahmadzadeh holds an ESRC Administrative Data Research UK fellowship, to explore links between prenatal exposure to maternal psychiatric illness and offspring developmental outcomes within the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) resource. Dr Ahmadzadeh was Principal Investigator on the ESRC Emerging Minds funded TRADE project, exploring the Transmission of experiences of Racism, Anxiety and DEpression in families.
Dr Ahmadzadeh joined King’s College London as a Research Assistant, helping to set up and run the Children of the Twins Early Development Study (CoTEDS). She completed her PhD part-time alongside this Research Assistant role, exploring familial risk for anxiety and depression: intergenerational effects and genetic transmission.
Prior to working at King’s College London, Dr Ahmadzadeh completed her BSc in Neuroscience with Industrial/Professional Experience at the University of Manchester.
Research interests
- Intergenerational transmission
- Anxiety and depression
- Family interactions
- Genetics
- Child development
- Mental health inequalities
- Anti-racism in mental health research
Teaching
- Nature Nurture 1 module co-lead for the Developmental Psychology & Psychopathology MSc: 2022/23, 2023/34
Expertise and public engagement
- Project manager for Family Footsteps: a parent engagement project, in collaboration with Bethlem Gallery and Centre for Mental Health
- Joint coordinator of the IoPPN Youth Awards
- Member of the SGDP Anti-Racism Working Group
- Blog author (e.g., for The EDIT Lab, The Mental Elf, Centre for Mental Health, and Inspire the Mind blogs)
- Panel member on webinars (e.g., McPin Foundation webinar “Inclusive #MentalHealthResearchMatters: the role of mental health research in tackling inequalities”)
- Podcast guest (e.g., the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, ACAMH, podcast)
- Planned and facilitated “Intergenerational transmission of racial trauma: a day of reflection and learning”, a July 2022 public engagement event at Science Gallery London: involving a gallery exhibition, two artist-led workshops, and a round table research discussion; and “Intergenerational trauma: science, poems, stories, illustration, reflection” October 2022: involving two online public engagement events with a poet, storyteller, and illustrator.
- Available to organise events, workshops and talks with primary and secondary schools
- Available to talk with young people or prospective students about my work and/or university experience
Research
Children of TEDS (CoTEDS) Study
The aim of this project is to explore the origins of the development of emotional disorders.
Project status: Ongoing
Family Footsteps - A Parent Engagement Project
Family Footsteps is a Wellcome Trust funded project exploring parent beliefs and concerns around mental health in families.
Project status: Ongoing
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
Parent and child experiences of racism affect whole family's mental health, according to new study
Parents’ experiences of racism affect their children’s mental health and vice versa, according to a new briefing published today, on World Mental Health Day,...
IoPPN researchers receive the Gottesman-Shields Prize for best PhD theses 2020-2022
Dr Olakunle Oginni and Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh, Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre (SGDP) alumni PhD students at the Institute of Psychiatry,...
IoPPN researchers announced winners of the 2022 ACAMH Awards
Several researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) won awards at the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health...
Anxiety during pregnancy does not pass from mother to baby, finds new King's study
Mothers who experience anxiety during pregnancy do not pass on similar emotional problems to their children, but later exposure to an anxious parent might...
Features
The 2021 IoPPN Youth Awards
This year, the IoPPN Youth Awards were faced with the challenge of making the annual event work during a global pandemic. In this blog, Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh...
Research
Children of TEDS (CoTEDS) Study
The aim of this project is to explore the origins of the development of emotional disorders.
Project status: Ongoing
Family Footsteps - A Parent Engagement Project
Family Footsteps is a Wellcome Trust funded project exploring parent beliefs and concerns around mental health in families.
Project status: Ongoing
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
Parent and child experiences of racism affect whole family's mental health, according to new study
Parents’ experiences of racism affect their children’s mental health and vice versa, according to a new briefing published today, on World Mental Health Day,...
IoPPN researchers receive the Gottesman-Shields Prize for best PhD theses 2020-2022
Dr Olakunle Oginni and Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh, Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre (SGDP) alumni PhD students at the Institute of Psychiatry,...
IoPPN researchers announced winners of the 2022 ACAMH Awards
Several researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) won awards at the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health...
Anxiety during pregnancy does not pass from mother to baby, finds new King's study
Mothers who experience anxiety during pregnancy do not pass on similar emotional problems to their children, but later exposure to an anxious parent might...
Features
The 2021 IoPPN Youth Awards
This year, the IoPPN Youth Awards were faced with the challenge of making the annual event work during a global pandemic. In this blog, Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh...