MPhil/PhD Supervisors

Find out more about our academic staff and their research interests within the Division of Psychiatry who can be approached as potential PhD supervisor(s)

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Supervisors

Researchers are listed in alphabetical order

Supervisor	Research interests
Dr Rick Adams	Causal inference Genetics Electronic medical records Alzheimer’s disease Neurodevelopment Pharmacoepidemiology
Dr Emma Anderson	Genetic and environmental determinants of dementia Alzheimer’s Mendelian randomisation Genetic epidemiology Polygenic risk scores
Dr Becky Appleton	Children and young people’s mental health Health services research Systematic reviews Mixed methods research
Dr Nick Bass	Genetics Psychosis Dementia
Dr Jo Billings	Clinical Psychology Trauma and PTSD Vicarious traumatisation Wellbeing and resilience Evaluating novel treatment interventions Case series design research Qualitative research
Professor Steven Bloch	Communication and conversation in palliative care Communication and conversation in terminal care Conversation analysis Interventions to improve conversation in health and social care
Dr Michael Bloomfield	Neuroimaging Psychopharmacology and psychiatric treatment Psychosis and Schizophrenia Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy PTSD and Complex PTSD Trauma
Professor Elvira Bramon	Schizophrenia Biploar Disorder Psychosis Genetics Neurophysiology Biomarkers
Dr Simon Chen	Environmental epidemiology (air pollution and dementia) Vascular risk factors for dementia Dementia incidence trend and birth cohort effect Clinical prediction model Time-dependent variables in survival analysis
Professor Anthony David	Insight into illness Longitudinal studies of risk for psychosis using the ALSPAC cohort Functional neurological disorders Depersonalisation disorder
Professor Neil Davies	Causal inference Genetics Electronic medical records Alzheimer’s disease Neurodevelopment Pharmacoepidemiology
Dr Jennifer Dykxhoorn	Psychiatric epidemiology Social determinants of mental health Severe mental illness, self-harm, and suicide
Dr Sally-Anne Francis	Palliative care Medication management and pharmacy practice Patient safety Professional and informal systems of care Health services research
Professor Rebecca Gould	Psychological interventions Older people Dementia Physical health conditions Clinical trials Carers
Professor Angela Hassiotis	Health services research Epidemiology Qualitative research Intellectual developmental disabilities Challenging behaviour Borderline intelligence
Dr Joe Hayes	Psychiatric epidemiology Pharmacoepidemiology Prediction and personalisation Ecological momentary assessment Causal Inference methods Psychosis and schizophrenia Mood disorders Physical health-mental health interface
Professor Paul Higgs	Sociology of ageing Cultures of ageing Personhood and later life Medical Sociology
Professor Quentin Huys	Computational psychiatry Treatment mechanisms Neuromodulators Cognition, metacognition and thought choice Relapse mechanisms and prevention Depression, anxiety and substance use disorders
Dr Artemis Igoumenou	Epidemiology and applied research Forensic Psychiatry/Forensic mental health Rehabilitation psychiatry Risk assessment and risk management Prison research Comorbidity of physical and mental health conditions in people with severe mental illness Education evaluation
Dr Sushrut Jadhav	Clinically applied anthropology Cross-cultural psychiatry Psychiatric ethnography Cultural formulations in mental health Caste & mental health in India Mental health of marginalised populations across cultures
Professor Sonia Johnson	Mental health care for people with severe mental health problems, especially for early psychosis, bipolar or people with a “personality disorder” diagnosis Crisis and acute mental health care Loneliness/social connection and mental health
Professor Helen Killaspy	Rehabilitation Psychiatry Health Services Research Complex psychosis
Professor James Kirkbride	Psychiatric epidemiology Psychosis and schizophrenia Social and economic determinants of mental health Immigration and ethnicity in mental health Causal Inference methods
Professor Karoline Kuchenbaecker	Genetics Depression Diverse populations
Dr Nuriye Kupeli	Dementia care End of life care/palliative care Carer wellbeing Compassion/emotion regulation Psychological interventions
Dr Gemma Lewis	The causes, treatment and prevention of depression and anxiety Self-harm and suicidality Young peoples mental health
Professor Glyn Lewis	Epidemiology and aetiology of depression Relationship between reward and punishment mechanisms and the treatment and outcome of affective disorders
Professor Gill Livingston	Dementia Family Carers Neuropsychiatric Symptoms Quality of Life Trials Technology
Dr. Brynmor Lloyd-Evans	Health services research Social care research Process and implementation research
Dr Natalie Marchant	Dementia prevention Psychological risk factors Subjective cognitive decline Behavioural interventions
Professor Andrew McQuillin	Molecular genetics of schizophrenia Molecular genetics of bipolar Disorder Molecular genetics of alcohol Dependence Molecular genetics of Wernicke Korsakov’s syndrome
Dr Kate Merritt	Psychosis Schizophrenia Neuroimaging Brain development Effect of social risk factors on the brain Glutamate
Professor Joanna Moncrieff	Psychiatric drug treatment Decision making in mental health History of psychiatry Critical psychiatry
Dr Nicola Morant	Qualitative research methods Shared decision making for psychiatric medication Experiences of medicine taking for mental health problems PPI and Lived Experience Researcher support in mental health research
Dr Naaheed Mukadam	Dementia – risk factors, prevention, management Ethnic inequalities in health pathways and outcomes Health related behaviours
Dr Vasiliki Orgeta	Dementia prevention, treatment and care Psychological interventions for older people living with and without dementia Depression in late life Traumatic stress and ageing Domestic abuse in older people Family carer well-being Missing with dementia
Professor David Osborn	Epidemiology and randomised trials Cardiovascular health in psychosis Evaluation of interventions in severe mental illness Interface between Mental health and physical health Psychosis including schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder
Dr Alexandra Pitman	Psychiatric epidemiology Suicide and self-harm: risk and protective factors Understanding the suicidal mind Interventions to reduce the risk of suicide Loneliness and social isolation: associations with mental ill-health and suicidality
Dr Penny Rapaport	Dementia care and support interventions Clinical trials in dementia Qualitative research Inclusion health
Dr Sarah Rowe	Self-harm and suicidality Eating disorders Personality disorders Young people’s mental health
Professor Liz Sampson	Delirium End of life care Dementia research Liaison psychiatry for older people Pain
Professor Marc Serfaty	Cognitive behaviour therapy Randomised clinical trials End of life care
Dr Francesca Solmi	Eating disorders and body dissatisfaction Autism and eating disorders, including ARFID Social media and eating disorders Inequalities in eating disorder treatment access and outcomes Policy evaluation Weight stigma and mental health Causal inference methods Epidemiology
Dr Andrew Sommerlad	Dementia Social cognition Social functioning Epidemiology Care home residents
Professor Paddy Stone	Palliative Care Terminal Care Prognosis Symtom Control Cancer-related fatigue Palliative sedation
Dr Vaso Totsika	Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorders Family adaptation and well-being Quality of life and well-being in ID and ASD (adults and children) Challenging behaviours
Dr Bella Vivat	Wellbeing Anthropology Sociology of scientific knowledge Mixed methods Patient-reported outcome measure development
Professor Zuzana Walker	Dementia research Treatment trials Lewy Body Dementia Neuroimaging Subjective cognitive decline
Dr Sarah Yardley	Palliative care for potentially life-limiting illnesses when people are also living with severe and enduring mental illness Interpretivist-constructionist socio-culturally orientated theoretical perspectives Critical qualitative approaches to empirical research, secondary analysis, plus review and synthesis methods for complex interventions (e.g. realist, metanarrative and meta-ethnography methods)