Teaching & Supervision
My teaching and supervision are organised around a simple aim: helping trainees become thoughtful, independent researchers who can reason clearly with complex and heterogeneous evidence. I teach quantitative methods, supervise research across mental health and population health, and contribute to open and reproducible research training.
Current trainees
PhD students
I currently contribute as secondary supervisor to PhD work spanning neurodevelopment, educational experiences, and inequalities in psychiatric disorders.
| PhD student | Role | Research |
|---|---|---|
| Alua Yeskendir | Secondary Supervisor | Causes of health and social inequalities in psychiatric disorders |
| Vanessa Cieplinska | Secondary Supervisor | School attendance problems and educational attainment in children with neurodevelopmental conditions |
Thesis committees
I also contribute to doctoral research through thesis-committee roles where my methodological or substantive expertise is relevant.
| PhD student | Research |
|---|---|
| Miriam Nyawira | Suicidality in early psychosis and associated risk factors in a multicultural UK area |
| Pip Clery | Understanding the impact of extreme heat on people with severe mental illness |
| Sonya Rudra | Health service use and health characteristics of parents with a learning disability and their children in England: a mixed-methods study of outcomes and experiences |
MSc supervision
| Student | Role | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Kaavya Chakraborthy | Primary Supervisor | Problem gaming harms among neurodivergent children and young people |
Teaching & training
At UCL, I teach epidemiology, statistics, and research methods across postgraduate mental-health programmes. Current and recent teaching includes:
Research design, critical appraisal, and the foundations of mental-health research.
Applied quantitative reasoning and statistical analysis for mental-health research.
Epidemiological designs, measures, inference, and interpretation in psychiatric research.
I have also contributed to curriculum development around open science and public involvement and engagement with research. As a certified instructor with The Carpentries, I teach practical data and computational skills for open and reproducible research. Selected reusable teaching materials are available through Open Research & Resources.
Supervision in practice
The supervision portfolio spans mental health, addiction, neurodivergence, climate and health, health inequalities, public health, and health policy. Several projects have developed into peer-reviewed outputs.
Student work linked to publications
| Student | Degree | Role | Published work |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridha Mahmood | MSc | Secondary Supervisor | Differential impacts of climate change on mental health outcomes in vulnerable groups |
| Madonna Fekry | MSc | Primary Supervisor | Social determinants associated with the advanced stage diagnosis of breast cancer in Egypt in the previous ten years |
| Rutendo Florence Kudenga | MSc | Primary Supervisor | Knowledge and attitude of adolescents regarding electronic cigarettes |
Selected recent supervision
| Student | Degree | Role | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron Tefft | MSc | Primary Supervisor | Psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatment for co-occurring cannabis use disorder and psychotic disorders |
| Thea Nelson | MSc | Primary Supervisor | Variations in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) support and educational outcomes by local and unitary authority |
| Alara Egeli | MSc | Primary Supervisor | Treatment options for co-occurring substance use disorder and severe mental illness |
| Eleanor Edgar | MSc | Secondary Supervisor | Psychopharmacological interventions for rapid cycling bipolar disorder |
| Jasmine Malty | MSc | Secondary Supervisor | How does depression impact physical intimacy in romantic relationships? |
| Jieyu Zan | MSc | Secondary Supervisor | What are the sex differences in the response to antidepressants for depression? |
| Tamara Moon | MSc | Secondary Supervisor | Examining rates and predictors of readmission to acute mental health services following Crisis Team intervention among individuals with a ‘personality disorder’ diagnosis |
| Bhavya Gupta | MSc | Primary Supervisor | The effectiveness of psychological therapy for comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders |
Prospective trainees
I am interested in supervising PhD, MSc, and undergraduate projects that fit the wider MINDSET agenda, particularly work connecting mental-health questions with longitudinal, administrative, clinical, environmental, behavioural, or biological data; causal and multimodal inference; neurodivergence; addiction; and inequalities. Prospective trainees are welcome to get in touch with a brief outline of their interests and the type of project or supervision they are seeking.
Prospective PhD applicants should also consider likely funding routes and eligibility before making contact. We can discuss realistic options together, but an initial view of possible schemes, deadlines, and fit is helpful.