Dr Eleanor Leigh

Position 

Nicholas Kurti Junior Research Fellow 

Academic Positions

Nicholas Kurti Junior Research Fellow, Brasenose College
Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology and MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow

Qualifications

BSc (Bristol)
DPhil (Oxford)
DClinPsy (King’s College London)

Academic Background and Previous Positions

Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow 2017-2022
Clinical Psychologist South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust 2008-2017

Research Interests

Development and treatment of common mental health problems in young people with a focus on adolescents.

Undergraduate teaching areas

Experimental Psychology Advanced Module: Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.

Graduate teaching areas

MSc and DPhil supervision: Clinical child psychology

Selected publications

Please see for a selection: https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/publications?author=eleanor-leigh

Chiu, K., Stringaris, A., & Leigh, E. (2024). Social anxiety symptoms and their relationship with suicidal ideation and depressive symptoms in adolescents: A prospective study. JCPP Advances, Article e12249. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12249

Lei, J., Leigh, E., Charman, T., Russell, A., & Hollocks, M. J. (2024). Understanding the relationship between social camouflaging in autism and safety behaviours in social anxiety in autistic and non‐autistic adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 65(3), 285–297.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13884

Leigh, E., Percy, R., Clark, D. M., Creswell, C., & Waite, P. (2023). Cognitive and behavioural processes in adolescents with social anxiety disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 170, 1-7.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2023.104416

Leigh E. (2023). Editorial: Treating Social Anxiety Disorder in Children and Young People: Challenges and Opportunities. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 62(6):621-623.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2022.12.002

E-mail

eleanor.leigh@psy.ox.ac.uk

Links

https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/people/eleanor-leigh

CAMY research group site: https://camy.web.ox.ac.uk