2010-2013 Post-doctoral Research Assistant, University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry Experimental Psychopathology and Cognitive Therapies Research Group (EPACT) 2008-2010 Clinical Psychologist, Psychological Services Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust 2005-2008                 Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford Thesis:'A single case series investigation of repeated sessions of positive interpretation training using mental imagery in depression' supervised by Dr Emily Holmes 2004-2005 MSc Research in Psychology, University of Oxford 2002-2004 Healthcare Assistant, Sutton Hospital South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust 1999-2002 BA(Hons) Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge

I am currently working on the development of novel computerised treatments for depression and anxiety that aim to directly modify the cognitive biases implicated in maintaining these disorders and thus improve mood and mental health. This research is funded by a grant awarded by the Lupina Foundation to Dr Emily Holmes.

Our current study is the "OxIGen" study.

Publications:

Davies, C., Malik, A., Pictet, A., Blackwell, S. E., & Holmes, E. A. (in press). Involuntary Memories after a Positive Film are Dampened by a Visuospatial Task: Unhelpful in Depression but Helpful in Mania? Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy.

Lang, T. J., Blackwell, S. E., Harmer, C., Davison, P., & Holmes, E. A. (2012). Cognitive bias modification using mental imagery for depression: developing a novel computerized intervention to change negative thinking styles. European Journal of Personality, 26, 145-157. doi: 10.100/per.855.

Vassilopolous, S. P., Blackwell, S. E., Moberly, N. J., & Karahaliou, E. (2012). Comparing imagery and verbal training instructions for the experimental modification of interpretation and judgmental bias in children. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 43, 594-601.

Holmes, E. A., James, E. L., Blackwell, S. E., & Hales, S. (2011). ‘They flash upon that inward eye’. The Psychologist, 24, 340-343.

Blackwell, S. E., & Holmes, E. A. (2010). Modifying interpretation and imagination in clinical depression: A single case series using cognitive bias modification. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24(3), 338-350.

Podczeck, F., Blackwell, S., Gold, M., & Newton, J.M. (1999). The filling of granules into hard gelatine capsules. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 188, 59-69.
 
Conference presentations:

Blackwell, S. E. & Holmes, E. A. (2011, August). Promoting positive imagery in depression using cognitive bias modification: first steps in the development of a novel treatment. In de Hullu, E. (Chair), How to change the way people see the world: New developments in cognitive bias modification. Symposium at the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 41^st Annual Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Blackwell, S. E., Lang, T. J., Harmer, C. J., Davison, P. & Holmes, E. A. (2011, July). Can we use home computers to change the way that people think? Cognitive Bias Modification using mental imagery in depression. In S. E. Blackwell (Chair), 2011: A CBM Odyssey. Developing Cognitive Bias Modification as a novel computerized intervention. Invited symposium at the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 39th Annual Conference, University of Surrey, UK.

Blackwell, S. E. & Holmes, E. A. (2010, July). Modifying interpretation and imagination in clinical depression: A single case series using cognitive bias modification. In C. Deeprose (Chair), Cognitive Bias Modification: Exploring the Role of Mental Imagery. Symposium conducted at the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 38^th Annual Conference, University of Manchester, UK.

Awards:

British Psychological Society Postdoctoral Study Visit Scheme 2011/2012

Contact:

simon.blackwell@psych.ox.ac.uk