Angharad de Cates

Until February 2024, I was clinical postdoctoral fellow funded by the Guarantors of Brain in the department, supported by Professor Catherine Harmer and Dr Susannah Murphy (DoP, Oxford), Professor Thomas Nichols and Dr Anya Topiwala (BDI, Oxford) and Professor Rachel Upthegrove (Birmingham). I also completed a DPhil (part-time) in the department between 2018 and 2022, supervised by Catherine Harmer, Phil Cowen and Susannah Murphy. 

I'm now an NIHR Clinical Lecturer at the Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham and an honorary member of the department.

My research interests include neurocognition, self-harm and psychopharmacology across different mental illnesses - especially involving mood and psychotic disorders. I also am interested in investigating whether one group of new agents, which act as agonists at the 5HT4 receptor, may work as antidepressants and / or improve cognition in humans using behavioural tasks and brain imaging.

I am also an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, and Academic Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for the Oxford Health BRC. 

Externally, I'm a section editor for the British Journal of Psychiatry co-leading the BJPsych Journal Clubs, and I'm a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Psychopharmacology Committee co-leading on their public education work.