Anushay joined the lab in September 2020 whilst studying for her MRes Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology, jointly between UCL and Yale University. Anushay has now started a PhD at the University of Oxford but still works as a research assistant in the lab. Anushay’s research interests understanding child development across different cultures, factors that might be affecting it, and devising culture-specific ways to support children’s holistic development through the educational system.

Anushay leads the Theory of Mind – Autism in Pakistan (ToMAP) project which aims to study cognitive differences in autism, within Pakistani and British children. Anushay secured funding through UCL’s Global Engagement Office to extend autism research to Pakistan and has co-supervised a number of Masters student projects in the lab.