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Psychology and Psychiatry

Programmes in Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry offer opportunities to research social, cognitive and emotional psychological processes in both health and in mental disorders.

Oxford has particular strengths in developmental psychology and disorders, language and communication, action selection and decision-making, attention and cognition, and research into psychological illnesses including depression and bipolar disorder, psychoses and its features, anxiety and trauma. The range of opportunities encompasses laboratory methods with the range of techniques offered by contemporary cognitive neuroscience including imaging, brain stimulation, neuropsychology, psychopharmacology and genetics.

Strong ties between Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry in Oxford facilitate opportunties to work on translational projects that apply basic research to answer questions about the mechanisms that sustain and confer risk for psychological problems (across the lifespan) and mechanisms that might allow psychological and pharmacological treatments to work. The multi-disciplinary character of this research ensures that our programmes offer rich and exciting opportunities for post-graduate scientific training.

The Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training runs a 3 year Doctoral course in Clinical Psychology that includes a substantial research programme.

Supervisors in Psychology and Psychiatry

Paul Azzopardi

Departmental Lecturer in Perception and Psychophysics

David Bannerman

Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience

Esther Becker

Professor of Translational Neuroscience

Ageing, Geratology and Degenerative Diseases

Bioinformatics, Statistics and Computational Biology

DNA and protein sequence analysis

Functional genomics

Cancer

Cellular mechanisms (including tumour microenvironment, angiogenesis and metastasis)

Molecular mechanisms (including DNA damage and repair)

Developmental Biology and Stem Cells

Cell commitment

Cell fate specification and differentiation

Embryonic stem cells

Induced pluripotency

Multipotent stem cells

Organogenesis

Genes, Genetics, Epigenetics and Genomics

Gene expression

Genetic disorders and therapies

Biochemistry and chemical biology

Cell biology and microscopy

Membranes, membrane proteins, ion channels and transporters

Signal transduction

Structural biology, protein science and proteomics

Neuroscience

Cellular and molecular neuroscience

Clinical neuroscience

Genes and developmental neuroscience

Neurodegenerative diseases

Psychology, mental health and psychiatry

Systems, cognitive and behavioural neuroscience

Psychology and Psychiatry

Abnormal psychology and mental health

Language development

Translational Medicine and Medical Technology

Drug discovery and pharmacology

Stem cells and cell therapy

Timothy Behrens

Professor of Computational Neuroscience

Rafal Bogacz

Professor of Computational Neuroscience

Lucy Bowes

Professor of Developmental Psychopathology

Sven Braeutigam

MEG Physicist

Holly Bridge

Professor of Neuroscience

Michael Browning

Professor of Computational Psychiatry

Randy Bruno

Professor of Neuroscience

Mark J. Buckley

Professor of Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience

Philip Burnet

Professor of Neuroscience

Biochemistry and chemical biology

Cell biology and microscopy

Cellular and molecular neuroscience

Drug discovery and pharmacology

Gene therapy

Genes and developmental neuroscience

Genes, Genetics, Epigenetics and Genomics

Membranes, membrane proteins, ion channels and transporters

Neuroscience

Psychology and Psychiatry

Psychology, mental health and psychiatry

Signal transduction

Systems, cognitive and behavioural neuroscience

Translational Medicine and Medical Technology

Claire Carson

Associate Professor in Epidemiology

Grant C Churchill

Professor of Chemical Pharmacology

Cardiovascular Sciences

Chemistry

Pharmacology

Diabetes and the metabolic syndrome

Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism

Biochemistry and chemical biology

Membranes, membrane proteins, ion channels and transporters

Signal transduction

Neuroscience

Psychology, mental health and psychiatry

Psychology and Psychiatry

Abnormal psychology and mental health

Translational Medicine and Medical Technology

Drug discovery and pharmacology

Ageing, Geratology and Degenerative Diseases

Motor neuron disease

Parkinson's disease

Cellular and molecular neuroscience

Molecular, Cell, Systems and Structural Biology

Cell biology and microscopy

Cathy Creswell

Professor of Developmental Clinical Psychology

Nele Demeyere

Professor of Neuropsychology

Ageing, Geratology and Degenerative Diseases

Alzheimer's disease

Stroke

Imaging

Vascular disease

Clinical neuroscience

Neuroscience

Neurodegenerative diseases

Psychology, mental health and psychiatry

Stroke

Systems, cognitive and behavioural neuroscience

Psychology and Psychiatry

Abnormal psychology and mental health

Applied psychology

Cognitive neuroscience

Experimental psychology

Translational Medicine and Medical Technology

Biomedical engineering

Benoit Duchet

Klaus Ebmeier

Foundation Chair of Old Age Psychiatry

Abnormal psychology and mental health

Ageing, Geratology and Degenerative Diseases

Clinical neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscience

Evidence-based health care, clinical trials methodology and epidemiology

Experimental psychology

Functional brain imaging

Imaging

Neurodegenerative diseases

Neuroscience

Psychology and Psychiatry

Psychology, mental health and psychiatry

Psychophysics

Translational Medicine and Medical Technology

Mike English

Anti-microbial drugs

Design of patient pathways and clinical support systems

Diagnostics

Epidemiology and population dynamics

Evidence-based health care, clinical trials methodology and epidemiology

Health Experiences Research

Maternal health

Medical Statistics

Microbiology, Infection and Tropical Medicine

Monitoring Chronic Disease

Paediatrics

Patient safety

Primary care and general practice

Psychology and Psychiatry

Reproductive, Genitourinary and Sexual Medicine

Social psychology

Surgical science and practice

Translational Medicine and Medical Technology

Colin Espie

Professor of Sleep Medicine

Seena Fazel

Professor of Forensic Psychiatry

Russell Foster

Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the Sleep and Circadian ...

Daniel Freeman

Professor of Clinical Psychology

John Gallacher

Professor of Cognitive Health; Director, Dementias Platform UK; Director, ...

John Geddes

WA Handley Professor of Psychiatry

Ben Goldacre

Director of Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Evidence-based health care, clinical trials methodology and epidemiology

Evidence-based health care

Health policy and promotion

Primary care and general practice

Design of patient pathways and clinical support systems

Diagnostics

Global health

Health economics

Patient safety

Telemedicine and telecare

Psychology and Psychiatry

Translational Medicine and Medical Technology

Alex Green

Spalding Associate Professor

Clinical neuroscience

Imaging

Neuroscience

Respiratory Sciences

Surgical science and practice

Systems, cognitive and behavioural neuroscience

Translational Medicine and Medical Technology

Ageing, Geratology and Degenerative Diseases

Neurodegenerative diseases

Circadian sciences and sleep

Cognitive neuroscience

Biomedical engineering

Trish Greenhalgh

Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences

Design of patient pathways and clinical support systems

Evidence-based health care, clinical trials methodology and epidemiology

Primary care and general practice

Primary Care, Clinical Epidemiology, and Health Care Delivery

Health Experiences Research

Patient safety

Population, Global, and Public Health

Evidence-based health care

Clinical trials methodology

Epidemiology

Health economics

Social psychology

Health policy and promotion

Health services research

Translational Medicine and Medical Technology

Catherine Harmer

Associate Head of Department (People and Culture), Professor of Cognitive ...

Paul Harrison

Professor of Psychiatry; Associate Head of Department (Research)

Abdelaali Hassaine

Machine Learning Scientist

Laurence Hunt

Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology

Masud Husain

Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience

Andrew King

Director, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience & Wellcome Principal Research ...

Patricia Kingori

Professor of Global Health Ethics

Willem Kuyken

Ritblat Professor of Mindfulness and Psychological Science

Simon Kyle

Professor of Experimental and Clinical Sleep Research

Belinda Lennox

Head of Department

Victoria Bajo Lorenzana

Associate Professor of Neuroscience

Clare Mackay

Professor of Imaging Neuroscience

Sanjay Manohar

Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant

Robin A Murphy

Professor of Experimental Psychology

Neuroscience

Psychology and Psychiatry

Clinical neuroscience

Neurodegenerative diseases

Psychology, mental health and psychiatry

Systems, cognitive and behavioural neuroscience

Abnormal psychology and mental health

Applied psychology

Cognitive neuroscience

Computational modelling

Developmental psychology

Experimental psychology

Language development

Mathematical modeling

Psychophysics

Kate Nation

Professor of Experimental Psychology

Charles Newton

Cheryl & Reece Scott Professor of Psychiatry

Fernando Nodal

Departmental Lecturer

Robyn Norton

Acting Executive Director, The George Institute, UK.

Primary Care, Clinical Epidemiology, and Health Care Delivery

Evidence-based health care, clinical trials methodology and epidemiology

Population, Global, and Public Health

Evidence-based health care

Global health

Ageing, Geratology and Degenerative Diseases

Stroke

Design of patient pathways and clinical support systems

Diagnostics

Health economics

Monitoring Chronic Disease

Patient safety

Primary care and general practice

Psychology, mental health and psychiatry

Stroke

Endometriosis

Gynaecological cancer

Maternal health

Pre-eclampsia

Clinical trials methodology

Epidemiology

Health policy and promotion

Health services research

Musculoskeletal Science

Trauma

Psychology and Psychiatry

Abnormal psychology and mental health

Cardiovascular Sciences

Epidemiology & clinical trials

Health promotion

Vascular disease

Jill O'Reilly

Professor of Psychology

Jacinta O'Shea

Principal Investigator

Neuroscience

Psychology and Psychiatry

Clinical neuroscience

Functional brain imaging

Stroke

Systems, cognitive and behavioural neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscience

Experimental psychology

Imaging

Psychology, mental health and psychiatry

Stroke

Abnormal psychology and mental health

Language development

Chrysanthi Papoutsi

Associate Professor

Rebecca Park

Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist

Brian Parkinson

Professor of Social Psychology

Andrew Peters

Sir Henry Dale Fellow

Catherine Pope

Professor of Medical Sociology

Matthew Rushworth

Watts Chair and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Head of Department

Paul Salkovskis

Director

Primary Care, Clinical Epidemiology, and Health Care Delivery

Design of patient pathways and clinical support systems

Diagnostics

Evidence-based health care, clinical trials methodology and epidemiology

Health Experiences Research

Primary care and general practice

Telemedicine and telecare

Psychology, mental health and psychiatry

Evidence-based health care

Health services research

Psychology and Psychiatry

Abnormal psychology and mental health

Applied psychology

Gaia Scerif

Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Michael Sharpe

Emeritus Professor of Psychological Medicine

Sara Shaw

Professor of Health Policy & Practice

Ilina Singh

Professor of Neuroscience & Society

Stephen Smith

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Hannah Smithson

Professor of Experimental Psychology

Charles Spence

Professor of Experimental Psychology

Charlotte Stagg

Professor of Human Neurophysiology

Ageing, Geratology and Degenerative Diseases

Stroke

Neuroscience

Clinical neuroscience

Stroke

Systems, cognitive and behavioural neuroscience

Psychology and Psychiatry

Imaging

Functional brain imaging

Neurodegenerative diseases

Cognitive neuroscience

Experimental psychology

Biomedical engineering

Alan Stein

Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Simon Stringer

Departmental Lecturer

Christopher Summerfield

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

Pawel Swietach

Professor of Physiology

Cardiovascular Sciences

Respiratory Sciences

Bioinformatics, Statistics and Computational Biology

Mathematical modeling

Molecular, Cell, Systems and Structural Biology

Cell biology and microscopy

Biochemistry and chemical biology

Membranes, membrane proteins, ion channels and transporters

Signal transduction

Structural biology, protein science and proteomics

Systems biology

Integrative physiology

Cancer

Cellular mechanisms (including tumour microenvironment, angiogenesis and metastasis)

Computational modelling

Electrophysiology

Imaging

Myocardial biology & energetics

Pharmacology

Irene Tracey

Professor Anaesthetic Neuroscience

Sridhar Vasudevan

Associate Professor in Pharmacology and Drug Discovery

Cardiovascular Sciences

Chemistry

Pharmacology

Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism

Biochemistry and chemical biology

Membranes, membrane proteins, ion channels and transporters

Signal transduction

Neuroscience

Psychology, mental health and psychiatry

Psychology and Psychiatry

Abnormal psychology and mental health

Translational Medicine and Medical Technology

Drug discovery and pharmacology

Nicole Votruba

Senior Research Fellow in Implementation Science

Psychology, mental health and psychiatry

Systems, cognitive and behavioural neuroscience

Global health

Health policy and promotion

Health services research

Abnormal psychology and mental health

Applied psychology

Cognitive neuroscience

Developmental psychology

Experimental psychology

Social psychology

Maternal health

Health economics

Vladyslav Vyazovskiy

Professor of Sleep Physiology

Abnormal psychology and mental health

Cellular and molecular neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscience

Neurodegenerative diseases

Neuroscience

Psychology and Psychiatry

Psychology, mental health and psychiatry

Systems, cognitive and behavioural neuroscience

Alzheimer's disease

Parkinson's disease

Circadian sciences and sleep

Diabetes and the metabolic syndrome

Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism

Experimental psychology

Kerry Walker

Associate Professor of Neuroscience

Neuroscience

Cellular and molecular neuroscience

Psychology, mental health and psychiatry

Systems, cognitive and behavioural neuroscience

Molecular, Cell, Systems and Structural Biology

Cell biology and microscopy

Systems biology

Psychology and Psychiatry

Computational modelling

Developmental psychology

Experimental psychology

Language development

Psychophysics

Mark Walton

Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience

Kate Watkins

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

Abnormal psychology and mental health

Clinical neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscience

Developmental psychology

Experimental psychology

Functional brain imaging

Language development

Neuroscience

Psychology and Psychiatry

Psychology, mental health and psychiatry

Systems, cognitive and behavioural neuroscience

Stroke

Applied psychology

Psychophysics

Nick Yeung

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience