Miss Pearl Young

Biography

Pearl is a research assistant in the Educational and Developmental Psychology lab, working on the project “Expressive Writing as a Brief Intervention Targeting Stress and Anxiety” with Dr Deborah Bailey-Rodriguez and Dr Gemma Reynolds. She has a first degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford and recently completed her Masters in Language sciences at University College London. She is interested in speech and language research, primarily in the impact of speech/language disorders and mental health, as well as qualitative research involving social media. When she is not working at Middlesex, she is working at UCL, designing an app prototype for children with Developmental Language Disorder to increase their usage of emotion words.