Delfina Bilello

Delfina Bilello is an ESRC funded PhD student based in the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Birmingham as well as at the Self-Harm research group at the University of Nottingham. Delfina’s research is interested in understanding the role of friendships in the experience of self-harm in young people.   

Supervisors:

Dr Maria Michail 

Before starting her PhD, Delfina obtained her BSc Honours degree in Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast. She then completed her MSc in Psychology of Childhood Adversity at the same university, in which she particularly focused on personality, resilience and mental toughness. During her studies, she has also worked as a research assistant in the Centre for Identity and Intergroup Relations – focusing on group interrelations in a post-conflict society – and in the School of Nursing assisting in the piloting of an RCT intervention.

Since starting her PhD, Delfina has been a research assistant in a project evaluating a Virtual Reality programme to explore young people’s engagement in risk-taking. 

Self-harm and suicide

Youth Mental health

Friendships and Social Relationships

Personality and Resilience

Perra, O., Wass, S., McNulty, A., Sweet, D., Papageorgiou, K., Johnston, M., Patterson A., Bilello, D. & Alderdice, F. (2020). Training attention control of very preterm infants: protocol for a feasibility study of the Attention Control Training (ACT). Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 6(1), 1-11. 

Papageorgiou, K. A., Gianniou, F. M., Wilson, P., Moneta, G. B., Bilello, D., & Clough, P. J. (2019). The bright side of dark: Exploring the positive effect of narcissism on perceived stress through mental toughness. Personality and Individual Differences, 139, 116-124. 

Papageorgiou, K. A., Benini, E., Bilello, D., Gianniou, F. M., Clough, P. J., & Costantini, G. (2019). Bridging the gap: A network approach to dark triad, mental toughness, the big five, and perceived stress. Journal of personality, 87(6), 1250-1263. 

Curran, W., Beattie, L., Bilello, D., Coulter, L. A., Currie, J. A., & Pimentel Leon, J. M. (2019). The direction after-effect is a global motion phenomenon. Royal Society open science, 6(3), 190114.