Dorothy is a Research Assistant in the Department of Psychological Medicine, King’s College London. She works on the CONtributions of social NETworks to Community Thriving (CONNECT) study. The CONNECT study uses participatory action research to investigate social capital and networks as resources that benefit (or hinder) marginalised communities and their mental health and wellbeing. Dorothy has additional research experience in perinatal mental healthcare in a low-resource setting and clinical experience in a mental health charity supporting young people and adults who hear voices in both community and secure settings, as well as clinical experience as an assistant psychologist in an NHS complex trauma clinic. Dorothy's interests include global mental health, community mental health and engagement in low-resource settings, culturally informed mental health care, distress in a social context, marginalised groups, intersectionality and disparities in mental health, forced displacement and refugee mental health, and complex and intergenerational trauma.