The PhD Research Scholarships we are currently funding are as follows:
Click on the links to read more about each of these projects.
COVID -19 PhD Scholarship 2022
King's College London - Racial inequalities in mental health help-seeking among young people in the covid-19 context.
John Grace QC PhD Scholarship 2022
Cardiff University - New approaches in precision psychiatry: Exploring genomic markers and linked health records to predict symptom improvement and drug response in schizophrenia.
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Eating Disorders in Young People PhD Scholarship 2021
University College London - Exploring the causal role of emotion regulation, internalising and externalising symptoms in the aetiology of eating disorders: a triangulation approach using longitudinal general population, primary care, and genetic data.
Student: Jane Hahn
Fieldrose Charitable Trust PhD Scholarship 2021
Cardiff University - Integrating microarray and sequencing data to identify rare risk and protective genetic variants for schizophrenia.
Student: Sophie Chick
John Grace QC PhD Scholarship 2021
Bath University - Feeling de-humanised by distressing psychotic voices: Developing our understanding and psychological therapy.
Student: Tom Jenkins
Psychological Trauma: Understanding risk, building resiliance PhD Scholarship 2021
King's College London - Understanding risk and building mental health resilience after childhood psychological trauma: focus on the subjective experience.
Student: Oonagh Coleman
Children and Young People’s Mental Health PhD Scholarship 2020
University of Cardiff - Identification of factors promoting sustained good mental health in children of depressed parents
Student: Eglė Padaigaitė
John Grace QC PhD Scholarship 2020
King's College London - Neural mechanisms of positive symptoms in first-episode and prodromal psychosis.
Student: Samuel Knight
Mark Robinson MRCVS PhD Scholarship 2020
University of Manchester - Developing participant-informed methods for acceptable and safe research into suicidal experiences
Student: Kerry Hozhabrafkan
Mental Health Research UK PhD Scholarship 2020
University of Nottingham - Understanding pathways to self-harm and suicide ideation in high risk young people: an unmissable opportunity for suicide prevention.
Student: Katherine Bird
Anxiety and Depression in Older People PhD Scholarship 2019
University of Sussex - Predicting development and treatment of common mental disorders in older adults.
Student: Alexandra Schmidt
Children and Young People PhD Scholarship 2019
King's College, London - Imagine a brighter future: Development of a school-based positive imagery intervention to target anhedonia in adolescents.
Student: Taryn Hutchinson
The Sylvia and Christine Wastall PhD Scholarship 2019
University of Bristol - The association between childhood language development and adolescent psychotic experiences in a general population sample.
Student: Sarah Hemingway
John Grace QC PhD Scholarship 2019
University of Cambridge - Targeting medial prefrontal cortex brain networks implicated in hallucinations.
Student: Samantha Mitchell
Children and Young People's PhD Scholarship 2018
University of Oxford - Understanding the emotional and practical needs of parents with psychosis and those of their children.
Student: Jessica Radley
Children and Young People's PhD Scholarship 2018
University of Edinburgh - Understanding biological and psychosocial risk and resilience factors for adolescent depression.
Student: Niamh McSweeney
John Grace QC PhD Scholarship 2018
University College London - Can genomics enhance care and quality of life in psychosis? Investigating the cost-effectiveness of pharmacogenomics in mental health.
Student: Noushin Saadullah Khani
Mental Health Research PhD Scholarship 2018
University of Cambridge - Understanding the psychological and biological characteristics of Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms in schizophrenia caused by clozapine treatment.
Student: Marjan Biria
Adolescent Mental Health PhD Scholarship 2017
University of Sussex - Pre-morbid school functioning and trajectories of mental health and social disability in adolescence and young adulthood.
Student: Lucie Crowter
The John Grace QC PhD Scholarship 2017
Oxford University - Developing our understanding and treatment of paranoia using virtual reality technology.
Student: Poppy Brown
The Fieldrose Charitable Trust PhD Scholarship 2017
Kings College London - Turning the Curse into a Blessing: Using Mindfulness to Reduce Schizophrenia Vulnerability in Psychosis-Prone Individuals.
Student: Heather McDonald
Publications by MHRUK PhD students, past and present (November 2019)
Application form for open access publication of research results: Open Access publications application form1.docx
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