Research Interests

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of psychology, supervised by Prof Robin Goodwin. My research focuses on the psychosocial consequences of disasters and mass events, for vulnerable populations. My research uses a variety of methodologies including reanalysis of existing data, as well as the collection of new data through surveys.

We are working on a systematic review of the literature as it relates to the mental health impacts disaster events for people with disabilities. We have recently published on the mental health and behavioural impacts of the removal of legally mandated coronavirus mitigations, for people with disabilities in England.

Following the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in 2022 we use quantitative approaches to understand the mental health impacts of the conflict on individuals with disabilities. This work is in collaboration with Drs Michael Head and Ken Brackstone [Clinical Informatics Research Unit, University of Southampton].

Finally, together with Professor Joseph T.F. Lau [Chinese University of Hong Kong] and Dr Yanqui Yu [Fudan University, China] we are leading an international collaboration to understand differing attitudes to the Omicron variant of COVID-19, to continue engagement with protective behaviours, and nationally variable policies for living with the virus.

I am also broadly interested in modern approaches to statistical data analysis using R especially mixture models, and linear mixed models.

Prior to joining the Department at Warwick as a Ph.D. student, I conducted Masters' research at the University of Durham on linguistic laws in mammal communication. This project focused on Zipf's Law of Abbreviation, which posits that more frequently used words are shorter in duration than rarer counterparts. My project aimed to extend this to nonhuman mammal vocalisations, and make use of phylogenetic comparative methods.

Tarandeep Kang