The University Department of Psychiatry is based at the Warneford Hospital. It supports research in four key areas: neurobiology, psychological treatments, developmental psychiatry and social psychiatry.  You can learn more about these research themes by clicking on the topics that interest you.

Our work is an important component of the University’s strategy for neuroscience and the themes of the neurobiology and psychological treatments programmes have always been translational. Thus, our core interest is in the mechanism of action of psychotropic drugs or psychotherapy, understood from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience. By harnessing cognitive neuroscience models often based on brain imaging we can provide surrogates for understanding mechanisms of psychiatric disease, individual differences, and how effective treatments really work. You can search for the work of individual researchers via the neuroscience research directory (http://www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk/about).

Our mission also includes teaching psychiatry to medical students and doctors in training and promoting excellence in clinical practice.

Research opportunities in Neuroscience are available across a range of departments within the Medical Sciences Division and candidates have the opportunity to make a single application to a collection of relevant programmes to undertake research in this area. For further information and details of how to apply for postgraduate research programmes in Neuroscience see Graduate Studies in Neuroscience

The Department is running an extensive, internationally recognised programme of research into the causes, psychological processes and treatment of bipolar disorder.  If you are a patient from Oxfordshire or Buckinghamshire and have bipolar disorder and would be interested in participating in our research, please contact us at oxtext@psych.ox.ac.uk

Volunteers required: Family carers experiences of Community Treatment Orders: We want to hear your story!

Volunteers required: Women with Bipolar-1 disorder

Volunteers required: Study on anorexia nervosa

Volunteers required: Eating disorder research (Further information)

Volunteers required: How does the mind work? (Further information)

Volunteers required: Are you sad?

Volunteers required: Have you wondered why depression sometimes runs in families?