Phoebe Wallman is a PhD student on the Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership under the supervision of Dr Kelly Diederen and Dr Thomas Spencer. Her research is centred on assessing speech and language to predict psychosis onset and functioning in young people. Her PhD project is in collaboration with the ENTER (E-detectioN Tool for Emerging mental disoRders) study.

Phoebe holds a BSc in Neuroscience from the University of Glasgow. After graduating, she worked as a research assistant in the pharmacy department at the Maudsley Hospital under the supervision of Professor David Taylor, where her research primarily focused on long-acting injectable antipsychotic medications.

Research Interests:

• Clinical high risk for psychosis
• Speech and language
• Antipsychotics

Teaching:

Phoebe is a graduate teaching assistant on the BSc Psychology course. She was nominated for a King’s Education Award 2025.

Expertise and Public Engagement:

Phoebe discovered her love of public engagement and science outreach during her undergraduate studies, when she collaborated with Glasgow Science Centre’s Science Lates programme. For this work, she was named runner-up for the Royal Society of Biology’s Scotland Outreach Champion award in 2020. She continued her educational outreach work by writing for Biological Sciences Review, a magazine that makes research accessible for A-Level students.

In 2024, Phoebe was awarded a grant from the Postgraduate Research Communities Wellbeing Fund to organise an event in partnership with the Museum of the Mind and Bethlem Gallery at the Bethlem Royal Hospital. The event invited researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) to explore the history, science and art associated with the psychiatric services connected to the university.

She currently writes occasional blog posts for King’s College London on exhibitions hosted at the Bethlem Gallery and IoPPN.