Psychological Medicine Research MPhil/PhD, MD(Res)

King's College London, University of London

The Department of Psychological Medicine at King's College London is the largest department in the Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN). It currently has around 20 full-time academics and a total of approximately 100 members of staff. The department has approximately 50 doctoral students. The large number of staff and students in the Department provides an environment which is very beneficial to research students because: of the research and clinical expertise available, of the structures which are in place to help students achieve their goals, of the collegiality and support that is afforded by having other young researchers going through the same experience. There are eight major research groups in the Department. They all have an extensive research portfolios and an established record for obtaining funding and publishing research in high impact journals. The department has a well-developed framework for helping research students to: ind the most suitable supervisors, to integrate into research groups, to develop their projects, to monitor their progress, to obtain specialist help e.g. with data analysis, to obtain pastoral care e.g. to present their data at meetings, to provide guidance with thesis and viva preparation.