Sophie Grant

I’m a PhD student in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. My research focuses on social anxiety and peer relationship difficulties in adolescents. 

I am interested in how social anxiety impacts and is impacted by an individual’s social interactions and relationships with other people, particularly for adolescents whose peers are especially important. 

Using a variety of methods, including conversations with young people and research in schools, I aim to explore what this experience is like for young people and understand the cognitive and behavioural mechanisms that are involved. With this greater understanding I hope to develop and evaluate a brief online treatment for adolescents, to help them feel more socially confident and to make social situations less stressful for people with social anxiety. 

I am working with Dr Eleanor Leigh and Professor Lucy Bowes. 

My project is funded by the Oxford Health BRC. 

Sophie Grant — Department of Experimental Psychology (ox.ac.uk)