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Department of Psychiatry

A leading centre for mental health research, offering postgraduate study across neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, clinical trials, epidemiology, brain imaging, data science and translational medicine.

 

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Overview

The Department of Psychiatry is an internationally recognised centre for research into mental health and brain disorders. Its research spans a broad range of disciplines, including neuroscience, psychology, clinical psychiatry, experimental medicine, neuroimaging, epidemiology, data science, psychopharmacology and psychological treatments.

The department provides access to state-of-the-art research infrastructure, including specialised facilities for psychological testing, clinical and experimental medicine research, neuroimaging and human brain activity research. Additional resources are available through partner departments and research centres across the University.

The department's postgraduate community includes around 120 students across its taught and research programmes. Students are encouraged to participate in seminars, research meetings, workshops and networking events, creating a supportive and intellectually stimulating environment for study and research.

Courses offered

The courses shown below are offered at postgraduate-level.

Medical Sciences Division

The Medical Sciences Division houses some of the strongest biomedical research in the world; Oxford is repeatedly placed first in clinical, pre-clinical and health in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

The Medical Sciences Division at Oxford is an internationally recognised centre of excellence for biomedical and clinical research and teaching, made up of 16 departments.

The Medical Sciences Division's departments and institutes in Oxford and overseas are home to some of the strongest biomedical research in the world, regularly appearing at the highest levels in world rankings and rated world-leading and internationally excellent.

The division’s 2,000 researchers cover a wide range of research, from atomic-resolution molecular structural biology to epidemiology as applied to very large populations. This enables students to work on virtually any biomedical problem.

The division provides a stimulating and challenging environment for more than 2,000 talented graduate students with excellent new facilities and close personal supervision by world-class researchers. To complement research supervision and course teaching there is a wide range of facilities aimed at the personal and professional development of students, strengthening their existing skills and developing new skills.

All candidates who apply by the December or January deadline shown on the course page are automatically considered for full funding awards, irrespective of their nationality. 

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