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Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry
|MPhil/PhD
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
- Established: 1995 by Professor Michael Rutter and Professor Robert Plomin.
- Current number of students: 34 PhD students.
- Current number of staff: More than 100 staff members, of which 28 are academic faculty staff.
- Current research projects include:
- Twins Early Development Study (TEDS)
- Environmental Risk (E-Risk)
- Cognitive-experimental and Genetic study of ADHD and Control Sibling Pairs (CEG)
- Genome-based Therapeutic Drugs for Depression (GENDEP)
- IMAGEN study of reinforcement-related behaviour in normal brain function and psychopathology.
- Facilities: The Centre moved into its new £17m building in 2003, which includes state-of-the-art molecular genetic laboratories.
- Funding: To date, research programs have attracted more than £50 million in funding.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Francesca Happé
Awarding institution
King's College London
Duration
For a traditional PhD, expected to be three years FT, five to six years PT; for MSc and PhD, expected to be one and three years. Email iop.educationsupport@kcl.ac.uk or julia.wootley@kcl.ac.uk for further information.
Location
Denmark Hill Campus.
Student destinations
Students have gone on to become senior lecturers at the IoP and at other institutions or consultant psychiatrists; and professors. Others have continued their research, or gained MRC fellowships.
Year of entry 2013
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