I graduated from the American University of Beirut in June 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences with a major in Psychology and a minor in Sociology. I went on to complete a MSc in Research Methods in Psychology at the University of Bristol examining the effects of acute alcohol consumption on the perception of facial cues of emotion. My PhD examined the role of alcohol-related cues (simple, complex) on cognitive bias in social alcohol consumers.

My MSc research focused on the effects of alcohol on perceptual cues of emotional expression and cognitive processes underlying alcohol consumption in social alcohol consumers. During my PhD, my interests were predominately centred on cognitive biases among social drug consumers or among individuals with a psychopathology.  Task development among existing cognitive bias measurement being employed in the research literature such as the modified Stroop and the visual probe task were also an area of research. My postdoctoral work involved providing research support on clinical trials based at the University of Bristol. I moved to North Bristol NHS Trust where I spent several years leading the Facilitation Team in ensuring NHS research was delivered to patients in a timely manner. I joined the Research Governance Team in 2018 in RED and aim to continue to support researchers while ensuring high-quality research is delivered in a pragmatic and proportionate manner.