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Career Stage: Doctoral

Dr Brendon Stubbs
“Physiotherapists have always championed the importance of keeping the body in mind for mental health”
Dr Brendon Stubbs
Physiotherapist
Dr Pamela Jacobsen
“Take the failures and try again anyway”
Dr Pamela Jacobsen
Clinical Psychologist
Professor Cathy Creswell
“The flexibility of research brings both challenges and benefits”
Professor Cathy Creswell
Clinical Psychologist
Dr Ruth McGovern
Addiction research
“Developing research agency and independence”
Dr Ruth McGovern
Social worker
Dr Amy O’Donnell
Addiction research
“I come at mental health research with a public policy hat”
Dr Amy O’Donnell
Health services researcher
Professor Sam Cartwright-Hatton
“Independent but not alone”
Professor Sam Cartwright-Hatton
Clinical Psychologist
Dr Rachael Kelley
“My move from clinical practice into research sort of happened by accident, but I’m really glad it did!”
Dr Rachael Kelley
Mental Health Nurse
Professor Roshan das Nair
“My earliest work experience in India was the driver for my research today”
Professor Roshan das Nair
Clinical Psychologist
Professor Martin Webber
“I beat my own path towards research”
Professor Martin Webber
Social worker
Dr Gary Lamph
“I'm an unlikely researcher”
Dr Gary Lamph
Mental Health Nurse
Poppy Brown
“It’s possible to do a lot more with research”
Poppy Brown
Clinical psychology PhD student
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