Research Programme
How does resilience emerge within relationships? My research examines how everyday interactions shape the capacity of individuals, parent–child relationships, couples and teams to navigate stress and adapt over time.
How do people regulate and adapt within their relational environments?
People encounter stress within relationships and social environments that shape their opportunities to cope. My research examines how individuals appraise challenges, regulate emotions, select coping strategies and adapt their behaviour within these contexts.
I investigate how personal capacities and relational experiences jointly influence responses to stress, including how people seek, receive and use support. This work also explores how digital interventions can help individuals develop coping skills that are relevant to their everyday lives.
Key research themes
Stress, coping and emotional regulation
Cognitive load and behavioural adaptation
Social support and relational environments
Digital interventions for resilience
Personalised and context-sensitive support
Resilient Individuals
Resilient Parent-Child Relationships
How do parents and children sustain connection and adapt together under stress?
Parents and children influence one another through everyday exchanges of attention, emotion and behaviour. These interactions unfold alongside caregiving demands, work pressures and developmental changes that can affect their capacity to connect.
My research examines how parents and children co-regulate emotions, coordinate during shared activities and reconnect following disruption. Using behavioural observation, physiological measures and brain imaging, including hyperscanning, I investigate how stress and relational experiences shape these processes and their development over time. The aim is to inform approaches that support caregivers, strengthen parent–child interactions and promote resilience across generations.
Key research themes
Parenting stress and cognitive overload
Parent–child co-regulation and coordination
Interbrain synchrony and interaction dynamics
Work–family spillover
Parental intervention and parent-child resilience
Resilient Couples
How do partners sustain mutual support as demands change?
Couples navigate the combined pressures of work, caregiving and everyday life. Their capacity to support one another can vary with the demands they face, the resources available to them and their shared experiences.
This area examines how partners regulate emotions together, coordinate responsibilities and repair disruptions in connection. I investigate how these interactional processes relate to the capacity to manage stress, including when support becomes difficult to provide or receive.
The aim is to understand how couples maintain and restore adaptive functioning, and how repeated interactions shape their capacity to face future challenges together.
Key research themes
Dyadic coping and mutual support
Co-regulation and stress transmission
Coordination of shared demands
Conflict, reconnection and repair
Marital and relational satisfaction
Resilient Teams
How do teams sustain effective collaboration under challenge and change?
Teams must coordinate attention and action, communicate effectively and adjust as tasks and relationships evolve. My research examines the behavioural and neural processes that support this adaptation in professional and learning environments.
I investigate how communication, interpersonal coordination and shared neural dynamics relate to collaborative learning, problem solving and performance. This includes examining how interaction patterns change with experience, and how teams respond to disruption and recover effective collaboration.
Drawing on neuroscience, behavioural science and artificial intelligence, the aim is to develop useful approaches to analysing interactions and supporting team resilience.
Key research themes
Team resilience and adaptation
Communication sentiments
Collaborative learning and problem solving
Interbrain synchrony and evolving interaction patterns
AI-supported interaction analytics