Some Possible DPhil Projects
Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research (OCEMR) - potential projects and supervisory team is subject to change and development.
- Project 1: Understanding and optimising treatment outcomes for autistic children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder.
- Project 2: Supporting parents and teachers to work together to address emotional and behavioural problems in children.
- Project 3: Me and my anxiety: Understanding diagnosis-as-identity in adolescence.
- Project 4: Valuing difference: Developing inclusive peer ecologies in neurodiverse primary classrooms.
- Project 5: Adolescent risk and resilience after shared adversity: Developing an experimental classroom paradigm to probe socioemotional mechanisms.
- Project 6: Fiction and feeling: Investigating the nature, utility and potential mechanisms of ‘creative bibliotherapy’ for children and young people
- Project 7: Understanding and addressing socioeconomic inequalities in child mental health services.
- Project 8: Identifying adolescents in need of support for anxiety and depression in schools.
Brain network dynamics in task and disease - Supervisor: Mark Woolrich. Suitable for both full-time and part-time students.
Towards better anxiety treatments for teenagers and young adults - Supervisor: Andrea Reinecke. Suitable for both full-time and part-time students.
Developing ultra-brief CBT for anxiety disorders: basic and clinical effects of cognitive enhancers - Supervisor: Andrea Reinecke. Suitable for both full-time and part-time students.
Whole-Brain modelling of how psychedelics work in health and disease - Supervisor: Morten Kringelbach. Suitable for both full-time and part-time students.
Psychopharmacology and Emotion DPhil Projects - Supervisors: Catherine Harmer and Susannah Murphy. Suitable for both full-time and part-time students.
Developing an understanding and psychological treatment for Trichotillomania in adolescents - Supervisors: Clare Mackay and Polly Waite.