To celebrate our 50th year, we will have 3 Guest Lecturers for #BAP2024 , on the history of research and potential future progress in their area: Barbara Franke (ADHD), John Krystal (depression pathophysiology), and Dan Stein (‘Cosmetic’ Psychopharmacology) buff.ly/3PJMb8F

At Birkbeck School of Psychological Sciences, we’re recruiting two new permanent Lecturers. We’re especially interested in recruiting in cognitive neuroscience and/or computational modelling 🧠

If you’d like to know about life & science at Birkbeck - please get in touch!
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lectur…

Interested in a career in Clinical Trial Management?

Clinical trial management professionals from across Medical Sciences share their valuable insights and provide guidance for individuals interested in pursuing a career in trial management.

Learn more 👉 medsci.ox.ac.uk/about-us/who-w…

New PhD studentship in adolescent mental health UCL Psychiatry

Does the mental health inequality between LGBTQ+ and cis/het adolescents vary between schools and, if so, why?

Using four large population-based datasets (epidemiology & statistics), quali & PPI

Apply here 👇

Come and work with us this summer! We are currently advertising for a (paid) summer intern via the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit's internship scheme. Project will be looking at the overlap between reward learning, metabolism & mental health (see below). Link to apply is here: mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/summ…

Are YOU coming to #BAP2024 in Birmingham in July?

Listen to David Baldwin (President of the BAP) and Catherine Harmer (BAP President-Elect & Head of Oxford PERL Lab) preview the Summer Meeting.

youtu.be/t8h9_2qN7KU?si…

I’m honoured and excited to become President of the BAP in July. BAP has been an exceptional support to me from my first days as a PhD student and I hope I can continue it’s exceptional work BAP Oxford Psychiatry

Our People & Culture focus this month has been racial equality.

We asked members of Psychiatry to nominate people in the dept for their:
- positive contributions to psychiatric research
- efforts to improve race equality

Our Race Equality Recognition Award winners are...👇
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Urban Mental Health x EACLIPT conference: I’d love to talk to you about social learning, social dance, and mental health - please come visit our posters (#8 & #9)! #UrbanMentalHealth #eaclipt
#icoumh #UMH_UvA urban.mental.health EACLIPT The Mental Elf Oxford Psychiatry Oxford PERL Lab

⭐️One week left to apply!!⭐️Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition will take place on the beautiful Uni of Birmingham campus 15th-17th July compsoccog.com. Fantastic set of speakers & instructors inc. Wolfram Schultz Cecilia Heyes Christian Ruff.

This is going to be fun! Great meeting, great location, and a topic very close to my heart 🤩

📢📷Abstract deadline for Computational Psychiatry Conf #cpconf 2024 cpconf.org this Wednesday. Spread the word! Send in the facts!

Registration Open!

#FSLCourse2024 will be held in-person, June 17th – 21st in Osaka, Japan. Register now to secure your spot:

open.win.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcours…

The course covers lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.

Job! Grade 7 Research Associate (postdoc) in alcohol and public health. Strong quantitative background needed. Come and work with a great team of people (and me). Closes 19th February. jobs.ac.uk/job/DFM429/res…

🎉New positions!🎉

Postdoc & research technician openings in our lab @yale

Computational psychiatry / neuroeconomics research. Technician a great stepping stone to grad school. Work w/brain scans & big smartphone data: happinessquest.app

More: rutledgelab.org/positions

It’s been a busy year for us Oxford Psychiatry - full of new initiatives, fun and reflection. Thanks to everyone for joining in and making it the wonderful department it is. Special thanks to Belinda Lennox for her inclusive leadership, tireless work and genuine warmth and support

JOB OPPORTUNITY:

Senior Clinical Researcher & Director designate of NIHR Oxford Health BRC

We are looking for a recognised international clinical academic who will provide intellectual leadership in psychiatry.

More info & apply 👇
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Oxford Neuroscience Medical Sciences

My 1st postdoc preprint! iEEG dissociates reward/effort in PFC theta/BG beta during decisions + PFC stim boosts reward effect on choice. Huge thanks: Coralie de Hemptinne & Simon Little for heavy lifting early on & Sarah Wang, Oxford PERL Lab, Matthew Apps, Masud Husain, Philip Starr!🧵⤵️

Funded full-time D.Phil. studentship to work on psychological therapies University of Oxford. Funded through the Oxford Health NIHR Biomedical Research Centre.
=> psy.ox.ac.uk/study/graduate…

Fantastic plenary talk by Megan Skelton today at the Portuguese National Psychiatry Congress on the interplay between genes and environment in the response to psychological treatment in depression EDIT Lab KCL