Angharad’s research interests include neurocognition, self-harm and psychopharmacology across different mental illnesses - especially involving mood and psychotic disorders. Currently, she is particularly interested in investigating whether one group of new agents, which act as agonists at the 5-HT4 receptor, may work as antidepressants and / or improve cognition in humans using neuropsychological tasks and brain imaging.

Angharad qualified as a medical doctor from the University of Oxford, and completed NIHR Academic Foundation and Academic Clinical Fellow posts at the University of Warwick. She then moved to Oxford to complete a Wellcome Trust funded DPhil (working on the first fMRI studies of medications that activate the 5HT4 receptor and how these might be useful for cognition), and subsequently a Guarantors of Brain Clinical Postdoctoral Fellowship.

She has been supervised by Catherine Harmer, Phil Cowen and Susannah Murphy (DoP, Oxford), Thomas Nichols and Anya Topiwala (BDI, Oxford), Matthew Broome and Rachel Upthegrove (Birmingham) and Scott Weich (Sheffield).

She is now completing her psychiatry residency in the West Midlands while continuing her research supported by the NIHR with a Clinical Lectureship.

• PhD Oxford
• PGCert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Oxford
• MRCPsych
• MSc Warwick
• BMBCH (Hons) Oxford