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Ella James

Ella James

2010 - 2013 The Colt Foundation Fellowship (3-year DPhil): Occupational Risk Factors Affecting Mental Health: Developing Theory-Driven Preventative Strategies to Target Flashbacks Relating to Post Traumatic Stress in the Workplace
2008 - 2010 RA with EPACT team
2007 - 2008 Placement student from Bath University with EPACT team
2008 Wellcome Trust Vacation Scholarship with EPACT team
                      

Education: University of Bath

2005- 2009  First Class Honours: BSc Honours in Psychology (BPS Accredited)
   First Class: Final year research project ‘Reducing Negative Intrusive Imagery via Competing Cognitive Tasks, for Trauma-Related Events.

Awards/Scholarships

Wellcome Trust Vacation Scholarship: Modulation of Negative Intrusive Memories: Cognitive Tasks for Therapeutic Application After Trauma. 2008 
Research undertaken in the laboratory of Dr E. Holmes, Warneford Hospital-Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.  

Publications

Holmes, E. A., James, E. L., Killford, E. J., & Deeprose, C. (2010). Key steps in developing a cognitive vaccine against traumatic flashbacks: visuospatial Tetris versus verbal Pub Quiz. PLoS ONE, 5(11), e13706

Holmes, E. A., James, E. L., Coode-Bate, T., & Deeprose, C.(2009). Can Playing the Computer Game 'Tetris' Reduce the Build-up of Flashbacks for Trauma? A Proposal from Cognitive Science. PLoS ONE, 4(1), e4153 doi:4110.1371/journal.pone.0004153.

Holmes, E. A., James, E. L., Blackwell, S., & Hales, S. (2011). “They flash upon that inward eye” Mental imagery in the lab and the clinic The Psychologist. 24(5), 2-5.

Presentations

James, E.L., Deeprose, C, Zhang, S, Holmes, E. A. (July, 2010) Can we dampen down intrusive imagery such as flashbacks soon after a stressful event using simple tasks? In A. Hackmann (chair) ‘More news on the imagery front: Basic processes and new developments’. Symposium conducted at the 38th British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) annual conference. Manchester, 20th – 23rd July, 2010. (Vol. Book of Abstracts, p 26)

Holmes, E. A., Deeprose, C., James, E. L. & Coode-Bate, T. (July, 2009) Can we reduce intrusions people develop of traumatic films by tasks given after they watch them? In P. Hertel (chair) Recent Developments in Clinical Cognition. Annual conference of the International Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Japan, 26th – 30th July 2009.

Holmes, E. A., Deeprose, C., James, E. L. & Coode-Bate, T. (July, 2009) Can we reduce intrusions people develop of traumatic films by tasks given after they watch them? In E. Geraerts (chair) Trauma and Memory: How to Link Cognitive and Clinical Science. Symposium conducted at the annual conference of the International Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Japan, 26th - 30th July 2009.

Deeprose, C., James, E. L., Bossward, H., Acker, L., Coode-Bate, T.  & Holmes, E. A. (July, 2009) Modulation of flashbacks in the aftermath of trauma: An experimental approach using cognitive tasks. In L. Jobson (chair) Cognitive Processes Involved in the Development and Maintenance of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Developments in Basic and Clinical Research. Symposium conducted at the 37th British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies annual conference. Exeter, 15th - 18th July 2009.

Holmes, E. A., Bourne, C., Zhang, S., Chilvers, A., & James, E. L., (September, 2008). The traumatic film paradigm and modulating intrusions with cognitive tasks: Investigating intrusive mental imagery. In J. Krans (Chair), Developments in Experimental Research of Intrusive Memory: From Fundamental Processes to Clinical Application. Symposium conducted at the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy 38th Annual Conference. Helsinki, 10th – 13th September, 2008.

James, E. L., Coode-Bate, T., & Holmes, E. A. (July, 2008). Reducing flashbacks to trauma via a computer game. Poster session Presented at the 36th annual conference of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). Edinburgh, 17th -19th July, 2008 (Vol. Book of Abstracts pp.37)

Holmes, E. A., Chilvers,A., Zhang, S., James, E. L., & Coode-Bate, T. (July, 2008). Can we reduce the intrusions people develop of traumatic films by tasks given after they watch them? In E. Geraerts (chair) Trauma and memory: How to link cognitive and clinical science. Symposium conducted at the 36th annual British Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). Edinburgh, 17th -19th July. (Vol. Book of Abstracts pp.77).

James, E. L., Deeprose, C., Coode-Bate, T., Kilford, E. J. & Holmes, E. A. (August, 2011) Developing Preventative Strategies to Reduce Intrusive Imagery Following Trauma in M. Hagenaars (Chair) ‘Imagining CBT: The role of mental imagery in treatment.’ Symposium conducted at the 41st European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (EABCT) Annual Congress. Reykjavik, Iceland, August 31st – September 3rd, 2011 (Vol. Book of Abstracts pp.27)

Contact

ella.james@psych.ox.ac.uk

 

 

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