Teaching & Supervision
My teaching and supervision centre on 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 supervise PhD work spanning neurodevelopment, educational experiences, and inequalities in psychiatric disorders.
| PhD student | Research |
|---|---|
| Alua Yeskendir | Causes of health and social inequalities in psychiatric disorders |
| Vanessa Cieplinska | 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 | Project |
|---|---|
| Kaavya Chakraborthy | 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
My supervision has spanned 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 | Published work |
|---|---|---|
| Ridha Mahmood | MSc | Differential impacts of climate change on mental health outcomes in vulnerable groups |
| Madonna Fekry | MSc | Social determinants associated with the advanced stage diagnosis of breast cancer in Egypt in the previous ten years |
| Rutendo Florence Kudenga | MSc | Knowledge and attitude of adolescents regarding electronic cigarettes |
Selected recent supervision
| Student | Degree | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Cameron Tefft | MSc | Psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatment for co-occurring cannabis use disorder and psychotic disorders |
| Thea Nelson | MSc | Variations in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) support and educational outcomes by local and unitary authority |
| Alara Egeli | MSc | Treatment options for co-occurring substance use disorder and severe mental illness |
| Eleanor Edgar | MSc | Psychopharmacological interventions for rapid cycling bipolar disorder |
| Jasmine Malty | MSc | How does depression impact physical intimacy in romantic relationships? |
| Jieyu Zan | MSc | What are the sex differences in the response to antidepressants for depression? |
| Tamara Moon | MSc | 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 | The effectiveness of psychological therapy for comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders |
Prospective trainees
I welcome enquiries about 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 inference; neurodivergence; addiction; and inequalities. Please get in touch with a brief outline of the question, likely data or methods, and, for PhD enquiries, potential funding routes and eligibility.