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Professor of Developmental Psychology
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Professor of Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry
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Professor of Psychiatric Genetics
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Chair in Social/Personality Psychology
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Business Manager SGDP
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Emeritus Professor Of Molecular Genetics
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Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
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Reader of Genetics
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MRC Senior Clinical Fellow
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Emeritus Professor of Developmental Psychology
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Professor of Developmental Behavioural Genetics
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Emeritus Professor of Psychiatric Nosology
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Reader in Preclinical Models of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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Reader in Developmental Psychopathology
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Professor of Developmental Disorders and Neuropsychiatry
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Professor of Genetic Epidemiology & Statistics
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Professor of Developmental Epidemiology
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Sir Henry Dale Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow
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Emeritus Professor of Psychiatric Genetics
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Senior Lecturer
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Chair in Social Behaviour & Development
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Professor of Behavioural Genetics
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Honorary Lecturer & Research Fellow
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Professor of Statistical Genetics
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Lecturer
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Professor of Developmental Psychopathology
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Professor of Biological Psychiatry
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Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Senior Lecturer in Epigenetics
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Lecturer
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Our research focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders that often co-occur with ADHD. We take a developmental approach, studying the disorders and traits from childhood to adulthood.
The Centre for Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine (PONS) aims at establishing and analysing big neuroimaging genetic datasets to precisely identify brain mechanisms underlying behaviour, and their genetic and environmental mediators, thus enabling prediction and stratification of mental disorders.
The Stress & Development Lab is led by Andrea Danese, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. The Lab aims to understand how stressful experiences in childhood affect development and later health, and how to best support children who had such traumatic experiences.
E-Risk study, now in its third decade, follows the lives of 2232 twins born in 1994-95 in England and Wales. The study builds knowledge about how environmental and genetic factors shape behaviors, attitudes and health.
The EDIT lab is led by Prof Thalia Eley and consists of post doctoral researchers, PhD students, and both undergraduate and masters students. We study genetic and environmental influences on the development and treatment of anxiety and depression. We are based at the SGDP Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London.
The Myeloid Leukaemia Genomics and Biology Group is interested in how clonal haematopoietic cell populations cause disease in blood and beyond.
The Centre for Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine (PONS) aims at establishing and analysing big neuroimaging genetic datasets to precisely identify brain mechanisms underlying behaviour, and their genetic and environmental mediators, thus enabling prediction and stratification of mental disorders.
The Repeated Assessment of Mental health in Pandemics (RAMP) study is a research project assessing the effect of COVID-19 on the mental health and wellbeing of the population.
The ReSpect Lab, led by Professor Francesca Happé, comprises researchers and postgraduate students actively engaged in researching autism across the spectrum and lifespan.
Led by Professor Cathryn Lewis, it is a cross-school unit, comprising 20 researchers in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre and in the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics. Our aims are to develop and apply statistical methods to identify and characterise the genetic component to common, complex disorders.
Postgraduate Taught
MSc Genes, Environment & Development in Psychology & Psychiatry
The MSc Genes, Environment & Development in Psychology and Psychiatry (GED PP) programme takes a highly interdisciplinary approach to the study of how genetics and the environment ('nature and nurture') combine during human development to produce behaviour, diseases and psychiatric disorders. Students are taught by world leading experts and receive training across multiple research fields: molecular & behavioural genetics, twin modelling, statistical genetics, epigenetics, bioinformatics, social and cognitive psychology and developmental psychiatry. Find out more and apply
MSc Developmental Psychology & Psychopathology
Develop knowledge about the causes of typical and atypical psychological development, the standard psychological therapies and treatments available, and research methods and statistics relevant to this field. There is particular focus on development during childhood and on nature versus nurture to try to explain psychological development. The psychopathology part of the course focuses on the development of disorders such as autism, depression and ADHD. The course will provide you with both a research and clinical focus. The course has been created for students coming from diverse academic backgrounds and professional disciplines and is designed to develop skills, experience and knowledge that will allow graduates to take up roles in different professional settings including studying a PhD. The programme’s flexible structure will enable students to choose and pick different combinations of modules and delivery modes (some Distance Learning alternatives) as well as optional credited Placements to gain experience that will facilitate your specific career pathway. Find out more and apply
Information about IoPPN Masters scholarships is available here.
Postgraduate Research
Further details about our traditional PhD programme can be viewed at the KCL Online Prospectus.
If you wish to apply for the SGDP Centre's traditional PhD programme, you should:
Identify and approach a potential supervisor. Information about potential supervisors at the Centre can be viewed here.
Start to consider/identify funding opportunities*. For further information on funding opportunities available visit our Postgraduate research funding page.
*Studentships for our traditional PhD programme will be advertised on this page. Studentships for the following academic year are normally advertised around January-February. Applicants not applying for an advertised studentship must attach the following to their application:
- Confirmation of sponsorship funding** for the full duration of the programme.
- Confirmation of support from their proposed supervisor.
**Visit our Fees and funding page for more information on costs
Further information about how to apply for a traditional PhD can be found here.
For any other questions about the SGDP PhD programme, please contact the SGDP Centre:
Telephone: 020 7848 0873
Email: sgdp@kcl.ac.uk
10 February 2021
Successful grant renewal from Medical Research Council (MRC) will fund pioneering Twin Early…
5 January 2021
Congratulations to Professor Francesca Happé who has been recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours…
27 October 2020
The award, from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, recognises individuals who have made a…
10 September 2020
Congratulations to Professor Plomin on receiving the British Psychological Society’s (BPS) 2020…