Professor Dame Til Wykes

Professor Dame Til Wykes is Head of School for Mental Health & Psychological Sciences at the IoPPN. She is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at King’s College London.

Professor Wykes has a wide ranging portfolio of research into treatment developments and evaluation including digital technology solutions to mental health treatment. She has been involved in research in mental health treatments and services for many years and is currently part of SMARTEN, an ESRC funded network on student mental health.  She founded and is now Co-Director of the Service User Research Enterprise (SURE), which employs expert researchers with experience of using mental health services. She is a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Lead at the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre.

She edits the Journal of Mental Health. She was awarded a Damehood for her work in mental health. 

Research Interests: 

• Developing and evaluating psychological treatments for schizophrenia 
• Digital mental health services and their acceptability and efficacy  
• Predicting and personalising treatments for mental health problems 
• Service user involvement 

 

Expertise and Public Engagement

• Grant review panels in the UK and overseas 
• Trustee (Weight Concern) 
• Advisory Board (Psyberguide) 
• President elect of the Schizophrenia International Research Society 
• Chair: Cognitive Remediation Experts Workshop 
• Fellow Academy of Medical Sciences 
• Fellow Academy Social Sciences 
• Fellow British Psychological Society