It is the first time that the award, which recognises exceptional achievements in knowledge and innovation, has been awarded for mental health research.
Many congratulations to Amy McCall for winning the Medical Research Council Max Perutz Award, a science communication competition for DPhil students. This year, students had to create a video telling a non-scientific audience why their area of research matters.
The Clarivate Highly Cited list identifies and celebrates researchers who have demonstrated a \"significant and broad influence\" in science or medicine-related disciplines.
Experimental Psychology DPhil Max Klapow recently authored an invited thinkpiece for Global Parenting Initiative, discussing his work on scalable interventions to prevent mental health problems in resource-limited settings, particularly low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Dr Miriam Klein-Fl\u00fcgge has been awarded the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize in Psychology for 2024. This award recognises outstanding researchers who have made significant contributions to their field early in their careers.
Asifa Majid, psychologist, linguist and cognitive scientist, is the 2024 recipient of the International Vigd\u00eds Prize, an award conferred for outstanding contributions to world languages and cultures. The award ceremony will take place in Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland, on October 22, 2024.
With one in five children and young people in England experiencing probable mental ill health, the need for accessible and effective mental health treatments has never been more pressing. Professor Cathy Creswell and her team at the Department, in collaboration with NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Oxford and Thames Valley (ARC OxTV) conceived and developed an innovative online intervention for childhood anxiety.
Professor Ole Jensen has been appointed Chair of Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, working across the Department of Experimental Psychology and the Department of Psychiatry.
Four internet-based therapies developed by our experts are proving helpful for patients with social anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorders and for children with anxiety disorders.
Many congratulations to Dr Lucy Foulkes who has recently published her latest book \u2018Coming of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us\u2019 (Penguin, July 2024)
We are proud to announce that Professor Asifa Majid has been made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2024 in recognition of her distinguished contributions to cognitive sciences.
A team of researchers led by a researcher in RDM, but which also includes researchers in NDCN, Population Health and Experimental Psychology, have found that a single, integrated health check carried out in a primary care setting can accurately predict risks for diseases across multiple organs.
New research from the University of Oxford has revealed that an online programme that empowers parents to apply Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) principles in their child\u2019s day to day lives is just as effective as traditional talking therapies for child anxiety problems.
Selective mutism is an anxiety disorder characterised by a consistent pattern of silence in specific social situations where speech is expected (for example, at school or work) while the person is able to speak comfortably in other situations (such as at home with close family).
A major new survey of trust and mistrust in the UK has revealed worryingly high levels of mistrust in society, with a quarter of respondents mistrustful of other people and a similar proportion keen for help to feel more trusting.
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