Staff Profile

Background

I completed my PhD at Newcastle University in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research.  Following my PhD, I worked in the Market Insights team at University of Sunderland in a quality improvement role, before joining the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University as a Research Associate.  Currently, I am employed as a Lecturer in the School of Psychology, teaching and providing research supervision, as well as managing our undergraduate professional placement programme and coordinating our postgraduate demonstrator provision. 

Previous Positions

• Research Associate on PACT-G, Newcastle University (2016-2019)
• Research Associate on MAGIC, Newcastle University (2015-2016)
• Market Insights Assistant, University of Sunderland (2015)
• Research Assistant, Newcastle University (2014)
• Part Time Research Assistant, University of York (2007-2009)

Qualifications

• PhD Psychology, Newcastle University (2014)
• MSc Cognitive Neuroscience, Durham University (2010)
• BSc Psychology, University of York (2009)

Memberships and Professional Registration

• Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society
• Fellow, Higher Education Academy

University Memberships

• Population Health Sciences Institute
• Behavioural Sciences and Psychology theme, Newcastle University
• Mental Health, Dementia and Neurodegeneration theme, Newcastle University
• Neuroscience, Neurodisability and Neurological Disorders theme, Newcastle University

Research Interests

My MRC-funded PhD investigated the profile, course and predictors of cognition in patients with mitochondrial disease.  As Research Associate, I first worked on MAGIC III to investigate implementation of shared decision making in real world clinical care, then on PACT-G, which investigated whether the PACT-G social communication intervention improved outcomes in children with severe autism and limited language.  I am currently doing research into the mental health impact of sensory processing differences, and the causes and consequences of camouflaging in autistic adults.

My research interests include cognition, adaptive abilities, and predictors of performance in typical and atypical development, with a focus on autism.  

Academic Expertise

• Autism; diagnostic assessments
• Cognitive testing
• Interviewing
• Training
• Project Management
• Patient and public engagement
• Systematic review
• Quantitative analyses

Previous Projects

• The Paediatric Autism Communication Trial-Generalised (PACT-G)
  Chief Investigator(s): Prof Jonathan Green (University of Manchester)
  Site Research Leads: Prof Ann Le Couteur (Newcastle University), Prof Tony Charman (King's College London), Prof Jonathan Green (University of Manchester)
  
  

• Making Good Decisions in Collaboration with Patients (MAGIC)
  Project Leader(s): Prof Richard Thomson
  

  'Magic III: Widening Impact' is a Health Foundation and Health Education North East (HENE) funded project designed to: embed shared decision making (SDM) in clinical care across a range of NHS Trusts; train an SDM workforce, as well as SDM trainers to continue this work; and conduct a training needs analysis to map current delivery of SDM education, identify current practice, and determine gaps.  

• Moore HL, Kelly T, Bright A, Field RH, Schaefer AM, Blain AP, Taylor RW, McFarland R, Turnbull DM, Gorman GS. Cognitive deficits in adult m.3243A>G- and m.8344A>G-related mitochondrial disease: Importance of correcting for baseline intellectual ability. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology 2019, 6(5), 826-836.
• Green J, Aldred C, Charman T, Le Couteur A, Emsley RA, Grahame V, Howlin P, Humphrey N, Leadbitter K, McConachie H, Parr JR, Pickles A, Slonims V, Taylor C, PACT-G Group. Paediatric Autism Communication Therapy-Generalised (PACT-G) against treatment as usual for reducing symptom severity in young children with autism spectrum disorder: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials 2018, 19, 514.
• Moore HL, Blain AP, Turnbull DM, Gorman GS. Systematic review of cognitive deficits in adult mitochondrial disease. European Journal of Neurology 2020, 27(1), 3-17.
• Moore HL, Farnworth A, Watson R, Giles K, Tomson D, Thomson RG. Inclusion of person-centred care in medical and nursing undergraduate curricula in the UK: Interviews and documentary analysis. Patient Education and Counseling 2021, 104(4), 877-886.
• Taylor LJ, Luk SYL, Leadbitter K, Moore HL, Charman T. Are child autism symptoms, developmental level and adaptive function associated with caregiver feelings of wellbeing and efficacy in the parenting role?. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 2021, 83, 101738.
• Moore H, Brice S, Powell L, Ingham B, Freeston M, Parr JR, Rodgers J. The Mediating Effects of Alexithymia, Intolerance of Uncertainty, and Anxiety on the Relationship Between Sensory Processing Differences and Restricted and Repetitive Behaviours in Autistic Adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 2022, 52, 4384-4396.