Associate Professor Katie Douglas

Immediate Past Chair

Katie is an Associate Professor and a Registered Clinical Psychologist. Her research explores the cognitive, psychological, and hormonal aspects of mood disorders, and how to target these directly, including with cognitive training programmes, psychological therapies, and environmental interventions (e.g., light therapy). She has extensive experience leading clinical trials of novel interventions, including large-scale randomised controlled trials of cognitive remediation programmes for people with depression and bipolar disorder. Katie has been awarded 10 major research grants as Principal Investigator, including the prestigious Sir Charles Hercus Fellowship from the Health Research Council of New Zealand (2018), and has more than 100 publications in high-impact journals.