Erin Lawrence

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I am a postdoctoral research associate based in the Unit for Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing at the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health. I am a mixed methods researcher specialising in physical health inequalities in severe mental illness, with a particular interest in how psychosocial, clinical, lifestyle, and biological factors interact to shape physical multimorbidity outcomes in this population.

I received my PhD titled “Understanding the psychosocial risk factors for physical multimorbidity in severe mental illness: A mixed methods approach” at the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health, funded by LISS-DTP (ESRC). In 2025, I joined the SUPREME (Social Prescribing for People Living with Severe Mental Illness) study team, which aims to test the feasibility, acceptability and uptake of social prescribing among people living with severe mental illness in primary care.

I also support with teaching activities and supervise dissertation students on the MSc Psychological Therapies course.

Postgraduate Teaching

I teach on the Applied Research Method's course for Mental Health: Psychological Therapies MSc.

Research

Publications

• Manoli, A., Otis, M., Shakoor, S., Lawrence, E. G., Bhui, K., Hosang, G. M. (2026). Physical multimorbidity patterns in mood disorders: Comparison of unipolar depression and bipolar disorder. In press.
• Giammanco, A., Lawrence, E.G., […] Zahid, U. (2026). Nature-Based Interventions for Individuals with Psychiatric Disorders: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review with Random-Effects Meta-Analysis of Mental Health and Functional Outcomes. Behavioral Sciences. 2026; 16(6):974. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16060974
• Bhui, K., Mooney, R., Stepney, M., […] Lawrence, E. G. et al. Improving Research Inclusion: Learning from NIHR and Research Council funded studies in England. NIHR Open Res 2025, 5:102 https://doi.org/10.3310/nihropenres.14116.1
• Lawrence, E. G., Zahid, U., […] Hosang, G. M. (2025). Psychosocial and Demographic Factors Associated with Physical Multimorbidity in Severe Mental Illness: A Systematic Review. Schizophrenia Bulletin.https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaf128
• Zahid, U., Lawrence, E. G., de Freitas, D. F., Parri, L. A., Quadros, W., Hua, P., Harriss, E., Oliver, D., Hosang, G. M., & Bhui, K. (2024). Understanding psychosis complexity through a syndemic framework: A systematic review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 159, 105614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105614 
• Thomson, A., Lawrence, E. G., Oliver, B. R., Wright, B., & Hosang, G. M. (2024). Self-directed digital interventions for the improvement of Emotion Regulation—effectiveness for Mental Health and functioning in adolescents: Protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open, 14(4). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-081556 
• Reid, G., Vassilev, P., Irving, J., Ojakäär, T., Jacobson, L., Lawrence, E. G., Barnett, J., Tapparel, M., & Koychev, I. (2024). The usability and reliability of a smartphone application for monitoring future dementia risk in ageing UK adults. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 224(6), 245–251. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.18 
• Dukelow, T. Lawrence E.G., et al. (2023). Modifiable risk factors for dementia, awareness, and barriers to brain health behaviours: Results from the Five Lives Brain Health Ireland Survey (FLBHIS). Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1070259
• Dukelow, T., Vassilev, P., Lawrence, E.G., et al. (2023). Barriers to brain health behaviours: Results from the Five Lives Brain Health Ireland Survey (FLBHIS). Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1101514
• Serfioti, D, Chang-Tave, A., Gribble, R., Lawrence, E.G., Fear, N.T., Burdett, H. (2022). Change in socioeconomic status and the role of transition among those who have left the UK Armed Forces, Forces in Mind Trust.
• Lawrence, E.G., Jones N., Greenberg N., et al. (2021). Mental well-being interventions in the 
  military: The ten key principles. BMJ Mil Health. DOI: 10.1136/bmjmilitary-2020-001740