Miss Semra Worrall BSc(Hons), MSc, GMBPsS

Personal Statement

Semra Worrall is a Doctoral Academic Teacher and PhD Student at the University of Liverpool. She predominantly teaches statistics to first- and second-year Undergraduate students, whilst also providing pastoral and academic support through her role as an Academic Advisor. Her main research interests concern perinatal mental health. Specifically, her work focuses on the impact of preterm birth on subsequent maternal health outcomes.
Semra holds a first-class honours degree in Psychology from the University of Liverpool. Her Undergraduate thesis examined the relationship between maternal mental health and preterm birth. It was the first to use a postpartum-specific measure of anxiety in mothers of premature infants. She graduated with an MSc in Research Methods in Psychology with Distinction, also at the University of Liverpool. Her Master’s thesis further examined the relationship between maternal anxiety and preterm birth, considering the stressful environment of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Semra's PhD research will further build upon this body of work and aims further to explore the relationship between maternal anxiety and preterm birth, whilst creating a robust measure of postpartum anxiety for use in mothers of premature infants.

Prizes or Honours

• Early Career Researcher of the Year (Nominated) (Institute of Population Health Annual Staff Awards, 2023)