WOMHERS's awarded PhD projects
“Gender identity and origin of gender dysphoria in birth-assigned girls – exploring links to chemical exposure, sexual- and neuronal development, social-cultural factors, and epigenetic changes”
Main Supervisor: Joelle Ruegg
Assistant Supervisor: Fotis Papadopoulos, Gabriele Griffin, and Carl-Gustaf Bornehag.
PhD Student: Fatih Özel
“A prospective study on the interplay between maternal mental health, early parenting and child development of self-regulation: A novel multidisciplinary approach”
Main Supervisor: Karin Brocki
Assistant Supervisor: Andreas Frick
PhD Student: Emma Jasperien Heeman and Lilja Kristín Jónsdóttir
“Matching Gametes: Making family and nation through assisted reproduction technologies”
Main Supervisor: Ulrika Dahl
Assistant Supervisor: Evangelia Elenis
PhD Student: Matilda Lindgren
“Improving predictive models of peripartum affective disorder using non-invasive neurophysiological measures”
Main Supervisor: Emma Fransson
Assistant Supervisor: Tomas Furmark, Andreas Frick, and Anna Wikman
PhD Student: Allison Eriksson
“A parenting intervention for fear of childbirth: Development, feasibility and acceptability”
Main Supervisor: Margareta Johansson
Assistant Supervisor: Helena W Henriksson, Joanne Woodford, and Michael Wells
PhD Student: Carita Nordin-Remberger
“Underlying mechanisms for gender specific differences in Major Depression and Migraine and internet supported Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (iCBT) outcome”
Main Supervisor: Jessica Mwinyi
Assistant Supervisor: Monica Buhrman, Gerhard Andersson, and Helgi Schiöth
PhD Student: Oreste Affatato
“Urbanization and the challenges on maternal mental health in lowmiddle income countries”
Main Supervisor: Mats Målqvist
Assistant Supervisor: Hannah Bradby, John Östh, and Yemane Berhane
PhD Student: Kalkidan Yohannes
“Predicting peripartum depression using a smartphone application and digital phenotyping”
Main Supervisor: Fotis Papdopoulos
Assistant Supervisor: Ginevra Castellano, Stavros Iliadis, and Caisa Öster
PhD Student: Ayesha Bilal
“Stories och Rape Trauma: Narratological and Psychotraumatological Perspectives”
Main Supervisor: Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed
Assistant Supervisor: Filip Arnberg
PhD Student: Daniela Lillhannus
“CONNECTED – being a parent with cancer and its consequences for parenting, family functioning and psychological well-being”
Main Supervisor: Anna Wikman
Assistant Supervisor: Lisa Ljungman, Renita Sörensdotter, Pia Enebrink, and Karin Glimskär Stålberg
PhD Student: Maria Romare Strandh
“Developing effective support services for refugee women who have experienced sexual and gender based violence"
Main Supervisor: Georgina Warner
Assistant Supervisor: Anna Sarkadi and Hannah Bradby
PhD Student: Anna Perez-Aronsson
“Evaluating an Intervention to Improve Respectful Maternity Care and Reduce Perinatal Mental Disorder in Bharatpur, Nepal”
Main Supervisor: KC Ashish
Assistant Supervisor: Mats Målqvist, Karin Brocki, and Sibylle Herzig van Wees
PhD Student: Rejina Gurung
“Oral contraceptives, childbirths, and hormone levels – which are causal factors for depression and other mental health disorders?”
Main Supervisor: Åsa Johansson
Assistant Supervisor: Bengt Sennblad and Philip Fowler
PhD Student: Therese Johansson
“Neuroimaging premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and its treatment”
Main Supervisor: Erika Comasco
Assistant Supervisor: Jonas Bergquist and Johan Wikström
PhD Student: Doktorand: Felix Schmidt
“Robot-assisted diagnosis of women’s depression around childbirth”
Main Supervisor: Ginevra Castellano
Assistant Supervisor: Fotis Papadopoulos
PhD Student: Mengyu Zhong
“Sick of becoming a mother: Causes and consequences of mental illhealth related to family formation”
Main Supervisor: Erik Grönqvist
Assistant Supervisor: Emma Fransson, Stavros Iliadis, and Erica Lindahl
PhD Student: Elisavet Iliadi