Our people
Thirimon Moe Byrne
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Systematic Review, Rapid Review, Scoping Review, Umbrella Review
- Meta-analysis
- Study Within A Trial (SWAT)
Dr Claire Carswell
NIHR Advanced Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Mental and physical multimorbidity
- Severe mental illness
- Mental health in the context of chronic kidney disease
- Mixed-methods research
Dr Trish Darcy
Research Associate
Research interests:
- Nature-Based Interventions, Natural Environments, and Green Social Prescribing
- Health Inequalities
- Community-Based Assets and Place-Based Approaches
- Co-Production, Creative Methodologies and Participatory Approaches
Professor Bernadka Dubicka
Chair of child and adolescent psychiatry and consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist
Dr Harriet Evans Tang
Project Support Officer (Research)
Research interests:
- Dissemination and Communication
- Project Management
Imogen Featherstone
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Qualitative research
- Physical and mental health comorbidity
- Delirium
Greg Forshaw
Research Associate
Research interests:
- Study set-up & management
- Quantitative & qualitative research
- Inflammatory & Infectious Diseases
Professor Paul Galdas
Professor of Men's Health
Research interests:
- Men's Health
- Gender-responsive health systems and policy
- Men's mental health
- Design and evaluation of men’s health interventions
Professor Simon Gilbody
Professor of Psychological Medicine & Psychiatric Epidemiology
Emily Hayward
Research Assistant
Research interests:
- Child and adolescent mental health research across diverse populations and presenting difficulties
- Clinical trial design and delivery, including recruitment and retention of young people
- Co-production and Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in mental health research
- Development and evaluation of behavioural interventions and assessment tools
Dr Pip Hearty
Research Fellow and Programme Manager
Lisa Huddlestone
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Digital mental health
- Health inequalities
- Development and evaluation of complex interventions
- Evidence synthesis
Dr Philip Kerrigan
Project Manager
Research interests:
- Project Management
- Public & Patient Involvement and Engagement (PPIE)
- Children and Young People's Mental Health
Charlotte Kitchen
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Health Inequalities
- Qualitative Research
Dr Liz Littlewood
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Development and evaluation of psychological interventions
- Mental wellbeing and loneliness
- Trial design
- Real-world evaluation and implementation
Professor Dean McMillan
Professor
Research interests:
- Behavioural Activation
- Scaleable psychological interventions
- Systematic reviews
- Randomised Controlled Trials
Dr Andrew Moriarty
NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care
Research interests:
- Primary care mental health
- Relapse prevention
- Risk prediction
- Evidence synthesis
Dr James Myers
Research Associate
Research interests:
- Quantitative analyses for longitudinal data
- Modifiable risk factors for adverse mental health and cognitive outcomes
- Social isolation and loneliness
Dr Lewis Paton
Lecturer in Data Science
Research interests:
- Statistics
- AI & machine learning
- Big data
- Causal modelling
Professor Amanda Perry
Professor, Director Mental Health and Addiction Research Group
Dr Elena Ratschen
Reader (Associate Professor) in Health Services Research
Research interests:
- Applied mental health research across the life span
- Human-animal interaction and mental health
- Tobacco dependence and mental health
- Complementary and alternative treatment approaches
Professor Najma Siddiqi
Professor of Psychiatry
Research interests:
- Mental and physical multimorbidity
- Design and trial evaluation of complex interventions
- Evidence synthesis
- Applied global health research
Dr Jennifer Sweetman
Research Associate
Research interests:
- Patient and Public Involvement
- Delphi Consensus projects
- Mixed methods research
- Systematic reviews
Dr James Tait
Research Associate
Research interests:
- Clinical prediction modelling
- Machine learning and data science
- Psychotherapy outcomes research
- Quantitative mental health research
Olivia Taylor
Research Assistant
Research interests:
- Co-production
- Qualitative Research
- Interventions for schools
Research interests:
- Qualitative research
- Service evaluations
- Prison populations
- Health inequalities
Professor Paul Tiffin
Professor of Psychiatry and Health Data Science
Research interests:
- Psychometrics (including Item Response Theory)
- Data science and predictive modelling
- Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence
- The Health and Social Care Workforce
Dr Lucy Tindall
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Project Management
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Evidence Synthesis
- Qualitative Research
Research interests:
- SCIMITAR-SA and other Global Health projects
Research interests:
- Mental Health and Wellbeing in Prisons
- Impact of Death on Society
- Grief Support in Prison
- Unresolved Loss
Research interests:
- Peer-support in prison
- Gambling
Dr Jerome Wright
Associate Professor
Research interests:
- Qualitative research design
- Mental health in uneven development contexts
- Postcolonial perspectives of Global Mental Health
- Traditional and Indigenous perspectives of mental health & well-being
Honorary appointments
- Christina van der Feltz - Cornelis, Emerita Professor
- Peter Coventry, Honorary Visiting Professor
- David Ekers, Honorary Visiting Professor
- Christine Godfrey, Emeritus Professor
- Ian Hamilton, Honorary Fellow
- Liz Newbronner, Honorary Fellow
- Joe Reilly, Honorary Visiting Professor
Visiting appointments
- Anne Aboaja, Visiting Research Fellow
- Shehzad Ali, Visiting Professor
- Faiza Aslam, Visiting Research Fellow
- Jan Boehnke, Visiting Senior Research Fellow
- Carolyn Chew-Graham, Visiting Professor
- Sumeet Gupta, Visiting Senior Lecturer
- Susan Moore, Visiting Research Fellow
- Pratima Murthy, Visiting Professor
- Krishna Prasad, Visiting Research Fellow
- Gregor Russell, Visiting Senior Lecturer
- Ruth Wadman, Visiting Senior Research Fellow