Category: PhD


  • Talk at Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland, USA On November 13, Anna Caltabiano delivered a talk at the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland, a US-based outpatient treatment center. She discussed VR-delivered exposure therapy and shared insights from her research in the field. The session included an engaging conversation with clinicians about…

  • Virtual Reality transforming health At the 2024 Great Exhibition Road Festival (15th of June), we had a successful demonstration of our research on VR for health. This event takes place every year across all of the Great Exhibition Road, and we had the pleasure showcasing our research at the Science Museum this year. We had…

  • Congratulations to Anna for winning a poster award! Anna presented a poster of her research at the Winter Gathering of the London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Programme at Kings College London. The research she presented focuses on whether Virtual Reality (VR) can be used to treat anxiety-related disorders such as OCD for individuals who…

  • Huge congrats to Ian Chard for successfully defending his PhD! Ian has successfully defended his thesis “Virtual reality exposure therapy for reducing social anxiety in people who stutter”. His thesis findings have been published in a number of outlets: Virtual reality exposure therapy for reducing social anxiety associated with stuttering: the role of outcome expectancy,…