Clare’s interest in brain imaging using MRI began at the Magnetic Resonance and Image Analysis Research Centre (MARIARC) during her undergraduate degree. Her PhD research (Prof Neil Roberts & Dr John Downes) was to relate structure to function in patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and involved setting up a tertiary clinical service for the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery. She moved to Oxford in 2000 to take up a post-doc position on Prof Tim Crow's MRC program grant to investigate developmental brain correlates of psychosis. In this post she led the acquisition of structural and functional MR data a large cohort of patients with Psychosis (Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder) and co-supervised three DPhil students and several MSc students. In 2002 she was awarded a Young Scientist Award, at the 11th Biennial Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia Research. In 2004 she became Head of Neuroapplication at the Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR). She managed all neuroscience projects, as well as two members of staff and supported set-up, running and analysis of research projects. In 2008 Clare became a Senior Research Fellow in the Dept of Psychiatry and is pursuing her interest in imaging to understand risk factors for psychiatric and neurodegenerative disease.