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Dr Aatik Arsh

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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

Kerry Cipriano

Project Support Officer (Research)

Dr Karen Coales

Research Fellow

Research interests:

  • Behavioural Activation
  • South Asia

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

Sally Farrell

Research Grants Finance Officer

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

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

Hannah Jennings

Senior Lecturer in Global Mental Health

Dr Philip Kerrigan

Project Manager

Research interests:

  • Project Management
  • Public & Patient Involvement and Engagement (PPIE)
  • Children and Young People's Mental Health

Dr Liz Littlewood

Research Fellow

Research interests:

  • Development and evaluation of psychological interventions
  • Mental wellbeing and loneliness
  • Trial design
  • Real-world evaluation and implementation

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

Jo Orchard

Research Group Administrator

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 Katie Pybus

Lecturer in Mental Health

Dr Elena Ratschen

Reader (Associate Professor) in Health Services Research

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

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

Nicky Traynor

Research Programme Manager

Research interests:

  • SCIMITAR-SA and other Global Health projects

Dr Marion Wilson

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Mental Health and Wellbeing in Prisons
  • Impact of Death on Society
  • Grief Support in Prison
  • Unresolved Loss

Dr Jessica Winterson

Research Associate

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

Visiting appointments