Our Research

We offer our PhD scholars the opportunity to undertake research within one of the following five themes:

Children, Young People and Perinatal Mental Health
Common Mental Health
Dementia
Physical Health and Mental Multimorbidity
Severe Mental Health

Each theme has a number of projects that supervisors who are experts in this area have proposed. Each theme also has at least one theme lead, who has an overview of the projects and supervisors within a particular theme.

Applicants can contact the theme leads to discuss potential PhD applications. Theme leads will help you identify potential supervisors at one of our universities.

Given the complexity of mental health and neuroscience, our bio-psycho-social approach to studying the five research themes will enable our PhD scholars to understand mental health issues from different perspectives, and develop diverse solutions, reducing service-user exclusion, addressing wider systemic challenges, and increasing treatment choices. PhD scholars will be able to use one or more of these approaches within their research projects. Each ‘approach’ has at least one lead. Applicants may wish to contact the individuals below to discuss their PhD application.