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Professor Jeremy Hall appointed Professor of Translational Psychiatry

Leading neuropsychiatrist Professor Jeremy Hall is set to join the University of Oxford as Professor of Translational Psychiatry.

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2025 Highlights: Head of Department

Professor Belinda Lennox reflects on the past year in the Department of Psychiatry.

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Find out more about the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) based in the Department of Psychiatry.

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Beginnings

Listen to the late Professor Michael Gelder on how he founded the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford, 1969.