Highlights

Haddi Browne is a former freelance mental health writer, proofreader, and researcher. She has over eight years’ experience working as a professional researcher with a diverse range of clients across the lifespan, including young adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression.

Her main areas of work have included:

• Working with Clinical Psychologists at The Oxford Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (OxCADAT) to co-ordinate a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate an intervention designed to prevent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression in emergency medical workers.

• Setting up and co-ordinating a clinical research program to deliver evidence-based mental health support to NHS staff during COVID-19 (www.shaperecovery.com).

• Administering assessments using interviews to diagnose PTSD and depression in medical staff.

• Delivering evidence-based mental health support to student paramedics and assessing risk.

Miss Browne graduated from King’s College London in 2022 with a Distinction in MSc Mental Health Studies. The modules studied included Social and Community Mental Health and Women’s Mental Health.

Furthermore, she was awarded a Distinction for her dissertation titled ‘In the presence of adversity, how do key coping skills protect against mental health problems in Black British secondary school children?’

She wrote for Simply Psychology between 2023 and 2024, producing mental health articles drawing on this research background.

Publications

Wild, J., McKinnon, A., Wilkins, A., & Browne, H. (2022). Post‐traumatic stress disorder and major depression among frontline healthcare staff working during the COVID‐19 pandemic. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61(3), 859-866. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12340

Professional Experience

• Student Conduct and Appeals Officer (Temporary), King’s College London (2025–2026)
• Freelance Writer and Researcher, self-employed (2023–2025)
• Freelance Psychology Writer, Simply Psychology (2023–2024)
• Mental Health Division Consultant, SISU Vantage (2024)
• Data Quality Assurance Specialist, Purdie Pascoe (2024)
• Senior Research Executive, Ipsos UK (2022–2023)
• Research Assistant, University of Oxford / OxCADAT (2019–2021)
• Researcher and Writer, Which? (2018–2019)
• Research and Data Officer, Magic Breakfast (2017–2018)
• Researcher, Research Institute for Disabled Consumers (2016–2017)

Education

• MSc Mental Health Studies (Distinction), King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (2019–2021)
• BSc Psychology (2:1), Brunel University of London (2009–2013)

Publications