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Oliver Watkeys


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Oliver Watkeys is a PhD student in the School of Psychiatry at NeuRA and the University of New South Wales.

He completed an Honours Degree in Psychology at the University of Newcastle in 2016.

Oliver is currently investigating the epigenetic modification of genes and how this can impact upon the manifestation of severe psychopathologies such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.


Publications

2025, 29 Sep

Criminal justice system contacts of young people who were placed in out-of-home care in childhood: A population-based descriptive study of over 79,000 young people in New South Wales, Australia

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076251379336

2025 Sep

Students’ accumulation of disciplinary school exclusion experiences over time: Prevalence, patterns, and correlates in an Australian population cohort

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108608

2025

Conditions of Birth and Early Childhood Developmental Risk for Mental Disorders

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2025

Cumulative incidence of adolescent mental disorders following childhood maltreatment: An Australian longitudinal population cohort study

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2025

Latent trajectories of mental health service use in an Australian state population cohort of children

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2025

Middle childhood social-emotional competencies mediate the effects of school-entry literacy and numeracy skills on secondary school reading and numeracy attainment

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2025

Promoting effective transitions: Primary school social–emotional competencies predict secondary school reading and numeracy achievement

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2025

Psychiatric diagnoses prior to the first onset of non-affective and affective psychoses

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2025

Research Letter: Cumulative incidence of psychotropic drug prescriptions among children and adolescents in an Australian population cohort

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2024

Alteration of DNA Methylation and Epigenetic Scores Associated With Features of Schizophrenia and Common Variant Genetic Risk

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