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Lasara Kariyawasam

Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Criminology

Biography

Lasara Kariyawasam is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Centre for Criminology at University of Oxford, working on the project "3PO, Protecting public-facing professionals and their dependents online". Her main research interests lie within Clinical and Forensic Psychology. She has specific interests in cross-cultural research and protecting vulnerable individuals from online risks and harms and has carried out several published researches on compassion and self-harming in relation to cross-cultural contexts, post-natal depression, and ethics in mental health. She was previously engaged in the "BeGood Project" within the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, where Lasara and her team conducted research on "Adolescents' perspectives on data sharing in the age of predictive psychiatry".

Lasara completed her PhD at the University of Southampton on exploring and evaluating the cross-cultural applicability of compassion-based interventions. She also completed an MSc in Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton and received the Dean's List Awards for the degree average, part average, and dissertation performance in addition to passing her MSc with a Distinction. During her MSc, Lasara also worked as an Honorary Assistant Psychologist for the Learning Disability Team at the Southern Health NHS Trust. 

Featured Publications

Kariyawasam L, Ononaiye M, Irons C, and others, ‘Exploring the Cross-Cultural Applicability of a Brief Compassionate Mind Training: A Study Comparing Sri Lankan and UK People’ (2022) 14(2) Mindfulness 429
Kariyawasam L, Ononaiye M, Irons C, and others, ‘Compassion-Based Interventions in Asian Communities: A Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials’ (2022) 96(1) Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice 148
Pavarini G, Yosifova A, Wang K, and others, ‘Data Sharing in the Age of Predictive Psychiatry: An Adolescent Perspective’ (2022) 25(2) Evidence-Based Mental Health 69
Kariyawasam L, Ononaiye M, Irons C, and others, ‘A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Compassion, and Facilitators and Inhibitors of Compassion in UK and Sri Lankan People’ (2022) 9 Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health 99
Kariyawasam L, Ononaiye M, Irons C, and others, ‘Views and Experiences of Compassion in Sri Lankan Students: An Exploratory Qualitative Study’ (2021) 16(11) PLoS ONE
Pavarini G, Alí S, George L, and others, ‘Gamifying Bioethics: A Case Study of Co-Designing Empirical Tools With Adolescents’ (Association for Computing Machinery 2020)

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