MINDSET is the name of my research group at UCL. It includes the postdoctoral research fellows whose research I direct day to day and the doctoral students I co-supervise. Much of our work depends on partnerships with NHS trusts, national data programmes, treatment providers, lived experience organisations, and other research groups, listed below.

Research team

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Dr Justin C Yang
Senior Research Fellow · Group lead
Psychiatric epidemiology · linked data · clinical records
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Dr Nathalie Rich
Research Fellow
Electronic health records · psychiatric epidemiology
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Dr Yunsoo Kim
Research Fellow
Natural language processing · large language models
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Doctoral researchers

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Vanessa Cieplinska
PhD student (co-supervised)
School attendance and educational attainment in children with neurodevelopmental conditions
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Alua Yeskendir
PhD student (co-supervised)
Health and social inequalities in psychiatric disorders

I also supervise taught projects and contribute to doctoral thesis committees and wider trainee development. See Teaching & Supervision for the broader training programme.

Partners and collaborators

Many partners contribute to more than one line of work.

MINDSET Partners and expertise across four areas
Population, place & linked data

Following mental health across systems and populations

National administrative, longitudinal, environmental, and spatial data; population data science; linkage; and infrastructure for studying trajectories and inequalities at scale.

Clinical data & infrastructure

Turning routinely collected records into research evidence

Electronic health records, clinical text, governed data access, harmonisation, and methods for research across mental health services.

Experience, biology & methods

Connecting mechanisms, context, and measurement

Intensive longitudinal and lived experience measures, social and environmental context, biomarkers and immunology, neuroimaging, causal inference, systems thinking, prediction, and inequalities.

Services, policy & lived and living experience

Keeping research connected to lived and living experience, care, and decision making

Lived- and living experience expertise, treatment provider expertise, public involvement, service context, and partnerships that help make questions and interpretation useful beyond academia.