Inspiring Careers: Dr Paul Wilkinson
Name: Dr Paul Wilkinson Job title: University Lecturer & Honorary Consultant in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Undergraduate Psychiatry Speciality Director. Paul is both a clinical psychiatrist...
View ArticleInspiring careers: Prof. Peter Jones
Name: Prof. Peter Jones Job title: Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Department. Professor Jones’ research works at the interface of population-based research, neuroscience and clinical psychiatry....
View ArticleInspiring Careers: Dr Sam Chamberlain
Name: Dr Sam Chamberlain, Ph.D. Job title: Psychiatric Trainee (CT2) and academic researcher (Ph.D.) Dr Chamberlain has completed a Ph.D. in the neurochemical and neural substrates of cognition. He is...
View ArticleInspiring Careers: Dr Belinda Lennox
Name: Dr Belinda Lennox Job title: University lecturer and clinical psychiatrist Dr Lennox’s research focuses on the biological basis of psychosis. She is both an academic lecturer and clinical...
View ArticleGraduate funding: testimonial – Tilman Lesch
Tilman Lesch (pictured) is a Ph.D. student supervised by Professor Barbara Sahakian. Here, he provides advice to potential students eligible for the CHESS scholarship. The CHESS scholarship All...
View ArticleGraduate funding: testimonial – Ameera Patel
Wellcome Trust TMAT Programme (PhD) Supervisor: Professor Ed Bullmore I am a MB/PhD student funded by the Wellcome Trust TMAT (Translational Medicine and Therapeutics) Programme. This unique programme...
View ArticleGraduate Funding Testimonial: Caroline Robertson
Gates Cambridge Scholarship (PhD) Supervisors: Professor Simon Baron-Cohen and Dr. Chris Baker The Gates Cambridge Scholarship has really defined my graduate experience at Cambridge. Established by...
View ArticlePostgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2013 (PTES) and Postgraduate Research...
Both the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) 2013 and Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) will shortly be opened to our students to feed back about their experience on our...
View ArticleNew Wellcome Trust PhD Studentships available
New graduate studentships are being advertised by the Wellcome Trust. Please click here for full details. If you are interested in applying to the Department of Psychiatry for a studentship, please...
View ArticleNewnham College Studentships tenable in 2014-15
Newnham hopes to offer a number of Studentships, up to three years duration, in 2014 for female students who are about to embark on an MPhil or PhD at Newnham College. These studentships may be held in...
View ArticleElijah Mak wins award for longitudinal examination of Parkinson’s disease
Congratulations to Elijah Mak, a third-year PhD student in the Department of Psychiatry, who was recently awarded a poster prize by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) at their dementia...
View ArticleAn interview with Amber Ruigrok.
Amber Ruigrok We spoke to Amber Ruigrok, who just finished her PhD with Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, and is currently on the organising committee of the Building Bridges in Medical Sciences (BBMS)...
View Article1st Annual Cambridge Psychiatry Graduate Symposium
On Friday 13 November, Trinity College hosted the inaugural Cambridge Psychiatry Graduate Symposium. This well-attended event was aimed at postgraduate students within the Department, so all MPhil and...
View ArticleElijah Mak and Patricia Vázquez Rodríguez win David Dawbarn Poster Prize
This year Cambridge students swept both of the David Dawbarn Poster Prizes, awarded to the two most outstanding posters each year at the Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) conference. Psychiatry...
View ArticleSuccessful SIRS conference for Cambridge PhD students.
Earlier this month, a delegation of Cambridge researchers attended the 5th Biennial Schizophrenia International Research Society conference in Florence, Italy. The conference was attended my more than...
View ArticleThe curious adventures of a lab fly. An interview with Julia Gottwald on...
Hannah Jongsma interviewed Julia Gottwald. Julia also writes for the Psychiatry News Team, and has just been awarded the Public Communications Prize by the British Association for Psychopharmacology...
View ArticleGraduate funding: testimonial – Tilman Lesch
Tilman Lesch (pictured) is a Ph.D. student supervised by Professor Barbara Sahakian. Here, he provides advice to potential students eligible for the CHESS scholarship. The CHESS scholarship All...
View ArticleGraduate funding: testimonial – Ameera Patel
Wellcome Trust TMAT Programme (PhD) Supervisor: Professor Ed Bullmore I am a MB/PhD student funded by the Wellcome Trust TMAT (Translational Medicine and Therapeutics) Programme. This unique programme...
View Article2nd Annual Cambridge Psychiatry Graduate Symposium
After the success of last year’s inaugural event, Trinity College hosted the 2nd Cambridge Psychiatry Graduate Symposium. The event is aimed at bringing together postgraduate students to present and...
View ArticlePhD retrospective with Sally Jennings
We would like to congratulate Dr. Sally Jennings who recently completed her PhD, which was supervised by Dr Howard Ring and Prof Tony Holland at the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental...
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