Clara is a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology in the School of Health in Social Science and a Fellow of the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Insecurity and the Global Health Academy at The University of Edinburgh. Clara is a Clinical Psychologist who has been working as a researcher and clinician with a wide range of complex clinical problems working in multidisciplinary projects and in translational and applied research. Clara is currently working in international and interdisciplinary research teams expanding her orientation from a local to a global mental health perspective.

Clara's clinical and research work is also characterized by a strong ethical commitment. She is the School Deputy Director of Research Ethics & Integrity in the School of Health in Social Science. Her commitment to ethics brought her to lead this project in order to define and establish the research culture for best practice through a strong process of co-design and partnership in developing an ethics toolkit.