Dr Catherine Laverty BSc, MSc, PhD

Dr Catherine Laverty

School of Psychology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Catherine Laverty is a research fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham.

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Qualifications

  • 2018 – 2022 PhD Psychology, University of Birmingham
  • 2017 – 2018 MSc Psychology, University of Birmingham
  • 2014 – 2017 BSc (Hons) Psychology, Queens’ University Belfast

Biography

Dr Catherine Laverty is a research fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, working within the Richards Lab. Dr Laverty’s research focuses on improving clinical outcomes in children within ‘at risk’ populations, with a particular current emphasis on self-injury, sleep, and behaviour in autistic children with an intellectual disability. Her PhD work explored social understanding within infants born moderately or late preterm. Dr Laverty’s is passionate about conducting research that aims to improve clinical outcomes for children and their families.

Research

Research interests

  • Intellectual disability (with a particular focus on self-injury and direct measurement techniques of executive functions)
  • Neurodevelopmental disorders and rare genetic syndromes
  • Preterm Birth
  • Open and accessible science practices

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Laverty, C, Surtees, A, Sutherland, D & Richards, C 2024, 'Qualitative interview with mothers of moderately or late preterm infants in the UK: where are the care gaps?', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 7, e076057. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076057

Laverty, C, Agar, G, Sinclair-Burton, L, Oliver, C, Moss, J, Nelson, NTCNN & Richards, C 2023, 'The 10-year trajectory of aggressive behaviours in autistic individuals', Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/jir.13004

Parsons, S, Azevedo, F, Elsherif, MM, Guay, S, Shahim, ON, Govaart, GH, Norris, E, O’Mahony, A, Parker, AJ, Todorovic, A, Pennington, CR, Garcia-Pelegrin, E, Lazić, A, Robertson, O, Middleton, SL, Valentini, B, McCuaig, J, Baker, BJ, Collins, E, Fillon, AA, Lonsdorf, TB, Lim, MC, Vanek, N, Kovacs, M, Roettger, TB, Rishi, S, Miranda, JF, Jaquiery, M, Stewart, SLK, Agostini, V, Stewart, AJ, Izydorczak, K, Ashcroft-Jones, S, Hartmann, H, Ingham, M, Yamada, Y, Vasilev, MR, Dechterenko, F, Albayrak-Aydemir, N, Yang, Y-F, LaPlume, AA, Wolska, JK, Henderson, EL, Zaneva, M, Farrar, BG, Mounce, R, Kalandadze, T, Li, W, Xiao, Q, Ross, RM, Yeung, SK, Liu, M, Vandegrift, ML, Kekecs, Z, Topor, MK, Baum, MA, Williams, EA, Assaneea, AA, Bret, A, Cashin, AG, Ballou, N, Dumbalska, T, Kern, BMJ, Melia, CR, Arendt, B, Vineyard, GH, Pickering, JS, Evans, TR, Laverty, C, Woodward, EA, Moreau, D, Roche, DG, Rinke, EM, Reid, G, Garcia-Garzon, E, Verheyen, S, Kocalar, HE, Blake, AR, Cockcroft, JP, Micheli, L, Bret, BB, Flack, ZM, Szaszi, B, Weinmann, M, Lecuona, O, Schmidt, B, Ngiam, WX, Mendes, AB, Francis, S, Gall, BJ, Paul, M, Keating, CT, Grose-Hodge, M, Bartlett, JE, Iley, BJ, Spitzer, L, Pownall, M, Graham, CJ, Wingen, T, Terry, J, Oliveira, CMF, Millager, RA, Fox, KJ, AlDoh, A, Hart, A, Akker, ORVD, Feldman, G, Kiersz, DA, Pomareda, C, Krautter, K, Al-Hoorie, AH & Aczel, B 2022, 'A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms', Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 312-318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01269-4

Laverty, C, Surtees, A, O'Sullivan, R, Sutherland, D, Jones, C & Richards, C 2021, 'The prevalence and profile of autism in individuals born preterm: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, vol. 13, 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-021-09382-1

Laverty, C, Oliver, C, Moss, J, Nelson, L & Richards, C 2020, 'Persistence and predictors of self-injurious behaviour in autism: a ten-year prospective cohort study', Molecular Autism, vol. 11, 8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-019-0307-z

Comment/debate

Visser, I, Bergmann, C, Byers-Heinlein, K, Dal Ben, R, Duch, W, Forbes, S, Franchin, L, Frank, MC, Geraci, A, Hamlin, JK, Kaldy, Z, Kulke, L, Laverty, C, Lew-Williams, C, Mateu, V, Mayor, J, Moreau, D, Nomikou, I, Schuwerk, T, Simpson, EA, Singh, L, Soderstrom, M, Sullivan, J, van den Heuvel, MI, Westermann, G, Yamada, Y, Zaadnoordijk, L & Zettersten, M 2022, 'Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: the ManyBabies model', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 45, pp. e35-e35. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x21000455

Laverty, C, Surtees, A, O’Sullivan, R, Sutherland, D, Jones, C & Richards, C 2021, 'Correction to: The prevalence and profile of autism in individuals born preterm: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, (2021), 13, 1, (41), 10.1186/s11689-021-09382-1)', Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, vol. 13, no. 1, 62. https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-021-09402-0

Preprint

FORRT 2019 'Introducing a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT)' OSFPREPRINTS. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/bnh7p

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