Emily is a Research Programme Administrator for the iCATS project at the University of Oxford. She is currently a psychology student in her final year of studies at the Open University. Emily is interested in horticultural psychology, positive psychology, minorities, mindfulness and fatphobia. She is a keen advocate of nature as therapy and a close friend of a transgender woman who has had first-hand experience of discrimination.
Emily Day summarises a recent study exploring the effects that transgender discrimination and stigma can have on the mental health of trans people, and what strategies individuals use to cope.