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Staff Profile

Ananya Ananthakrishnan

Research Assistant

Background

I am a research assistant at the DEPTH AI Lab within the Translational and Clinical Research Institute at Newcastle University with a background in psychology and engineering. I am also an associate member of Fuse the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health. I joined Newcastle University in November 2023 and have been working on interventional, implementation science-focused research for the past two years. In June 2025, I received funding to develop a PhD funding application from the NIHR Newcastle Patient Safety Research Collaboration.


I am primarily interested in research focusing on helping people with mental health conditions live well, with a particular interest towards tackling health inequities in an intersectional manner. I am keen on co-producing my research, which means I work with people with lived experience across all stages of my research.


Before moving to Newcastle, I was a support worker in residential care in St Albans, Hertfordshire, where I provided emotional and practical support to people with complex mental health conditions and co-created care plans with the service users.


Qualifications


  • MSc Psychology, University of Hertfordshire (Distinction)
  • BA Psychology, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India (2:1 equivalent)
  • BTech Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering Pune, India (First Class equivalent)
Research

I am primarily interested in research focusing on people with mental health conditions, with a view to improving the services that support them. I am skilled in evidence synthesis, qualitative data collection and analysis, and co-design methods.

Publications