Zoë Firth
Research Assistant
Zoë Firth is a Research Assistant at the CAMHS Digital Lab.
After an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Oxford, she completed a MSc in Clinical Linguistics at the Universities of Groningen, Potsdam, and Eastern Finland, with a thesis investigating the relationship between auditory hallucinations and the processing of self-generated speech.
She has worked in inpatient psychiatric care as a Healthcare Assistant at the Hammersmith and Fulham Mental Health Unit, as well as in the nonprofit sector, leading Bloom, an online support service for survivors of gender-based violence. Within the CAMHS Digital Lab, Zoë currently works primarily on the Five Minute Speech Sample project, where data from the longitudinal E-Risk study is being used to analyse if mothers’ speech samples can be used to predict mental illness in their children.
Research interests:
Early detection of mental illness
Innovative interventions in mental healthcare (e.g., digital therapies, neurofeedback)
Self-harm and suicide
Language processing in schizophrenia
Trauma-informed service design
