Ingrid Boedker
Bio:
My academic career (and life!) started in the United States, where I earned a B.A. in Logic from Smith College in 2010. After moving to Liverpool in 2012, I worked as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology, based at the University of Liverpool, from 2013-2016. It was there that I became interested in psychology, and I earned an M.Sc. in the subject from Liverpool Hope University in 2015. From 2017 to 2022, I was a research assistant to Dr David Giofrè, first at Liverpool John Moores University and then at The University of Genoa. I became a British Citizen in 2020. In 2022, I was awarded the Vice-Chancellor Scholarship Award to become a PhD student at LJMU and I joined the Somaffect Lab.
My PhD focusses on different infant sleep arrangements, their associated outcomes for mothers and infants, and how these outcomes are mediated by touch behaviours. I am also interested specifically in infant feeding outcomes and am a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Infant Feeding. At LJMU, I am honoured to work with an outstanding team of researchers led by my Director of Studies, Dr Sam Roberts (Somaffect). Also on my team are Dr Tina South (Nursing & Midwifery), Professor Francis McGlone (Somaffect), and Professor Helen Ball (University of Durham). My project is also shaped by critical feedback from our lab group; Somaffect is a wonderful research environment in which students and staff challenge and elevate each other’s work through our weekly lab meetings.