Contact

• workRoom C24 Institute of Mental Health
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 82 30418
• Katy.Jones@nottingham.ac.uk

Teaching Summary

Undergraduate (A100 Medicine)

• Communication Skills (Years 1 and 2)
• Behavioural Sciences (Years 1 and 2)

Postgraduate (Masters in Mental Health and Forensic Doctorate)

• Dementia
• Alcohol and Substance Use

Professional (MRCPsych)

• Social Psychology

Research Summary

Summary

I am interested in alcohol and substance use, and mental health at different time-points across the lifespan. I am interested in lived experience using qualitative methods. I am also interested in mechanisms that may underlie or maintain such problems including impulse control and decision-making.

Populations

• Offenders and staff in forensic services
• Older adults and retirees
• University students

Research groups

Dementia Operational Group, Institute of Mental Health (older adults)

Current and recently completed projects

• NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (Co-investigator) £219,073 (24 months). Does knowledge of liver fibrosis affect high-risk drinking behaviour (KLIFAD) A feasibility randomised controlled trial. 2020-2023.
• Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Canada (Co-investigator) ($19,665). Duration:18 months. Title: The use of combined Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) and cognitive training to modulate decision-making in healthy people. In progress.
• MRC Confidence in Concept (Joint PI). £99,391 (12 months). Measuring cortical dynamics of inhibitory control before, during and after Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS). Feb 2018-2019.
• Wellcome Trust (consultant) with Professor Ellen Townsend and Professor Joanne Hort (PIs). Using 'Café Connect' as a Public Engagement Tool. Grant supported 4 x studies about alcohol use in people over 65 (October 2016- September 2017). Completed 2017.

Please get in touch by e-mail for any collaboration.

Recent Publications

• TRUNDLE, GRACE, JONES, KATY A., ROPAR, DANIELLE and EGAN, VINCENT, 2023. The forensic implications of camouflaging: a study into victimisation and offending associated with autism and pathological demand avoidance ADVANCES IN AUTISM. 9(2), 116-131
• COOK E, DAVIES EB and JONES KA, 2022. “Drunk People Are on a Different Level”: A Qualitative Study of Reflections From Students About Transitioning and Adapting to United Kingdom University as a Person Who Drinks Little or No Alcohol Frontiers in Psychology.
• SUBHANI, MOHSAN, TALAT, USMAN, KNIGHT, HOLLY, MORLING, JOANNE R., JONES, KATY A., AITHAL, GURUPRASAD P., RYDER, STEPHEN D., LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY, JOY and RENNICK-EGGLESTONE, STEFAN, 2022. CHARACTERISTICS OF ALCOHOL RECOVERY NARRATIVES: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND NARRATIVE SYNTHESIS GUT. 71, A87-A87
• THELU, MADELEINE, WEBSTER, BOBBIE, JONES, KATY and ORRELL, MARTIN, 2022. A cross sectional survey on UK older adult's attitudes to ageing, dementia and positive psychology attributes BMC GERIATRICS. 22(1),

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Past Research

I worked at Swansea University (UK) for 4 years where I attained my PhD in the effects of recreational ecstasy and cannabis use on sleep and cognition. I then completed a postdoctoral position at University of Wollongong (Australia) measuring cognitive deficits in adolescent cannabis users with elevated impulsivity and risk-taking. Moving from New South Wales, I obtained a Senior Research Fellow position at Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre (Melbourne, Australia) where I managed two large Victorian government-funded projects, the first a qualitative and quantitative examination of benzodiazepine abuse and impulsive unplanned crime in long-term heroin addicts and the second, the development of a screening program for alcohol use in GP surgeries.

I have worked across a number of settings, and with different populations. At Nottingham, I am interested in the fluctuation of alcohol and substance use across the lifespan, from adolescence to young adulthood, to mid-life, and into old age. I am now interested in how impulsivity and decision-making has an impact on alcohol and substance use and mental health.

• TRUNDLE, GRACE, JONES, KATY A., ROPAR, DANIELLE and EGAN, VINCENT, 2023. The forensic implications of camouflaging: a study into victimisation and offending associated with autism and pathological demand avoidance ADVANCES IN AUTISM. 9(2), 116-131
• COOK E, DAVIES EB and JONES KA, 2022. “Drunk People Are on a Different Level”: A Qualitative Study of Reflections From Students About Transitioning and Adapting to United Kingdom University as a Person Who Drinks Little or No Alcohol Frontiers in Psychology.
• THELU, MADELEINE, WEBSTER, BOBBIE, JONES, KATY and ORRELL, MARTIN, 2022. A cross sectional survey on UK older adult's attitudes to ageing, dementia and positive psychology attributes BMC GERIATRICS. 22(1),
• KAFADAR, AYSEGUL HUMEYRA, TEKELI, GAMZE GIZEM, JONES, KATY A., STEPHAN, BLOSSOM and DENING, TOM, 2022. Determinants for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the general population: a systematic review of reviews JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH-HEIDELBERG.
• TRUNDLE, GRACE, JONES, KATY A., ROPAR, DANIELLE and EGAN, VINCENT, 2022. Prevalence of Victimisation in Autistic Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis TRAUMA VIOLENCE & ABUSE.
• SUBHANI, MOHSAN, TALAT, USMAN, KNIGHT, HOLLY, MORLING, JOANNE R., JONES, KATY A., AITHAL, GURUPRASAD P., RYDER, STEPHEN D., LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY, JOY and RENNICK-EGGLESTONE, STEFAN, 2022. CHARACTERISTICS OF ALCOHOL RECOVERY NARRATIVES: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND NARRATIVE SYNTHESIS GUT. 71, A87-A87
• SUBHANI M, JONES KA, SPRANGE K, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, KNIGHT H, MORLING JR, ENKI DG, WRAGG A and RYDER SD, 2021. Does knowledge of liver fibrosis affect high-risk drinking behaviour (KLIFAD)? Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial BMJ Open. e054954
• OLIVEIRA, DEBORAH, KNIGHT, HOLLY, JONES, KATY A., OGOLLAH, REUBEN and ORRELL, MARTIN, 2021. Motivation and willingness to increase physical activity for dementia risk reduction: Cross-Sectional UK survey with people aged 50 and over AGING & MENTAL HEALTH.
• RALPH-NEARMAN C, STEWART JL and JONES KA, 2020. The role of negative urgency in risky alcohol drinking and binge-eating in United Kingdom male and female students. Addictive behaviors reports. 11, 100274
• BOSCO A, JONES KA, LORITO CD, STEPHAN BCM, ORRELL M and OLIVEIRA D, 2020. Changing lifestyle for dementia risk reduction: Inductive content analysis of a national UK survey Plos One. 15(12),
• OLIVEIRA, DEBORAH, JONES, KATY A., OGOLLAH, REUBEN, OZUPEK, SEMANUR, HOGERVORST, EEF and ORRELL, MARTIN, 2019. Willingness to Adhere to Current UK Low-Risk Alcohol Guidelines to Potentially Reduce Dementia Risk: A National Survey of People Aged 50 and Over JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE. 69(3), 829-837
• STEPHANIE WHITWHAM and KATY A JONES, 2019. Assessing aggression following Acquired Brain Injury (ABI): a systematic review of assessment measures Brain Injury.
• JONES, KATY A., HEWSON, THOMAS, SALES, CHRISTIAN P. and KHALIFA, NAJAT, 2019. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Decision-Making in Offender Populations with Mental Disorder NEUROPSYCHOLOGY REVIEW. 29(2), 244-258
• RAO, R and JONES, K. A, 2018. Alcohol and substance misuse. In: DENING, T, THOMAS, A, STEWART, R and TAYLOR, J-P, eds., Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry 3rd. Oxford University Press. (In Press.)
• TAYLOR, C., JONES, K.A. and DENING, T., 2014. Detecting alcohol problems in older adults: can we do better? International Psychogeriatrics. 26(11), 1755-1766
• JONES, K. A, CHRYSSANTHAKIS, A and GROOM, M. J, 2014. Impulsivity and drinking motives predict problem behaviours relating to alcohol use in University students Addictive Behaviours.
• SOLOWIJ, N., JONES, K.A., ROZMAN, M.E., DAVIS, S.M., CIARROCHI, J., HEAVEN, P.C.L., PESA, N., LUBMAN, D.I. and YÜCEL, M., 2012. Reflection impulsivity in adolescent cannabis users: a comparison with alcohol-using and non-substance-using adolescents. Psychopharmacology. 219(2), 575-586
• SOLOWIJ, NADIA, JONES, KATY A, ROZMAN, MEGAN E, DAVIS, SASHA M, CIARROCHI, JOSEPH, HEAVEN, PATRICK C L, LUBMAN, DAN I and YÜCEL, MURAT, 2011. Verbal learning and memory in adolescent cannabis users, alcohol users and non-users. Psychopharmacology. 216(1), 131-44
• BLAGROVE, MARK, SEDDON, JENNIFER, GEORGE, SOPHIE, PARROTT, ANDREW C, STICKGOLD, ROBERT, WALKER, MATTHEW P, JONES, KATY A and MORGAN, MICHAEL J, 2011. Procedural and declarative memory task performance, and the memory consolidation function of sleep, in recent and abstinent ecstasy/MDMA users. Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England). 25(4), 465-77
• NIELSEN SUZI, BRUNO RAIMONDO, FREI MATT, LUBMAN DAN I and JONES KATY A, 2011. Benzodiazepines and violence: Their role in aggression and why GPs should prescribe with caution Australian Family Physician. 40, 1-5 (In Press.)
• JONES KATY A, NIELSEN SUZI, BRUNO RAIMONDO, FREI MATTHEW and LUBMAN DAN I, 2011. Benzodiazepines and Violence: Their role in aggression and why GPs should prescribe with caution Australian Family Physician. 40, 1-5 (In Press.)
• JONES, KATY A, BLAGROVE, M and PARROTT, A C, 2009. Cannabis and Ecstasy/ MDMA: empirical measures of creativity in recreational users. Journal of psychoactive drugs. 41(4), 323-9
• JONES KATY A, BLAGROVE MT, PARROTT AC, 2008. Sleep, energy and self rated cognition across 7 nights following recreational ecstasy/MDMA use Sleep and Hypnosis. 10, 16-28