Our Research
We offer our PhD scholars the opportunity to undertake research across five interlinked discovery themes.
Each theme has a number of projects that supervisors who are experts in this area have proposed. Each theme is led by a 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.
Research Themes
Comorbidities
Understanding co-occurring mental health and physical health symptoms and shared mechanisms.
Theme Lead
Professor Noelle Robertson
Clinical Psychologist, University of Leicester
Implementation
Understanding barriers to seeking early support, engaging with effective care, and what makes interventions work.
Theme Lead
Associate Professor Michelle O'Reilly
Health Psychologist, University of Leicester
Mechanisms
Understanding transdiagnostic aetiological and pathophysiological mechanisms of symptom onset, progression and treatment response.
Theme Lead
Professor Belinda Lennox
Psychiatrist, University of Oxford
Systems Diagnostics
Integrating biomarkers (including imaging, molecular, digital) into biopsychosocial predictive models.
Theme Lead
Associate Professor Benjamin Perry
Psychiatrist, University of Birmingham
Technology
Developing and exploiting advanced technologies (digital, devices, models) to innovate treatment, mitigate barriers, and upscale effective care.
Theme Lead
Associate Professor Grazziela Figueredo
Healthcare Data Scientist, University of Nottingham