Contributors

Research is not a solitary act. All of the work described in this site has only been possible due to extraordinary mentors, collaborators, students, and trainees. In some ways this is my psyc epi genealogy!

Mentors and supervisors

• Prof Kate Walters and Prof David Osborn were the principal investigators of the NIHR Public Mental Health Programme. I was the programme manager and senior research fellow for this research during my postdoc (2019-22). David continues to be a mentor for my current fellowship.

• Prof James Kirkbride: James was one of my PhD supervisors (2015-19) and is the head of the PsyLife group at UCL. The PsyLife group explores inequalities in the social determinants of psychosis and other mental health problems over the life course.

• Prof Kerry Keyes: I had the opportunity to work with Kerry and her research group during a 6-month research visit to Columbia University in 2023, learning advanced methods and working on suicide and opioid research projects.

• Prof Glyn Lewis: Glyn also supervised my PhD and is a trailblazer in exploring the causes of psychiatric disorders, with a particular focus on depression and psychosis.

• Prof Christina Dalman: Christina is the research group leader for Epidemiology of Psychiatric Conditions, Substance Use, and Social Environment at Karolinska Institutet. I work closely with her for all projects using Swedish register data.

• Prof Ian Colman: Ian was my MSc supervisor (2012-14), who guided me down the garden path of epi, big data, and longitudinal research. His research group is a leading psychiatric epidemiology group in Canada, producing rigorous research long-term processes surrounding common mental disorders and their treatment, including suicidal behaviour.

Students and trainees

I have had the opportunity to work with many brilliant students and trainees, including MSc students, PhD students, pre- and post-doctoral research fellows. Below are some of the trainees I have worked with and links to publications we have written together. If you are interested in working with Dr Dykxhoorn on your MSc or PhD research, please get in touch.

PhD students

• Anna Tsaligopoulou (SOC-B - 2024-28) Supervisors: Prof Joseph Hayes and Dr Jen Dykxhoorn

• Laurie Haig (MRC DTP - 2024-28) - Causal pathways between genetic and environmental factors and psychiatric disorders. Supervisors: Prof Neil Davies and Dr Jen Dykxhoorn

• Alua Yeskendir (MHRUK - 2023-27) - Historically marginalised groups and mental health inequalities. She wrote an excellent blog summarising the social determinants of mental health forum. Supervisors: Dr Jen Dykxhoorn, Prof James Kirkbride, and Dr Kate Lewis

• Nathalie Rich (ESRC DTP - 2022-25) - Ethnic inequalities in psychosis. Nat contributed to a commentary on ethnic and migrant differences in suicide for Lancet Psychiatry. Supervisors: Prof James Kirkbride, Dr Milagros Ruiz, Dr Jen Dykxhoorn

• Jenny Fielder (Wellcome rotation year - 2022) - Neighbourhood cohesion, income, and mental health. Rotation supervisors: Dr Jen Dykxhoorn and Prof Kate Walters

• Sarah Ledden (NIHR - 2019-2023) - The relationship between alcohol use and suicidal behaviours. Supervisors: Prof Alexandra Pitman, Prof David Osborn

Academic clinical fellows

• Philippa Clery (ACF 2023-24) - Outdoor temperature and depression and mania pre-print. Supervisors: Dr Jen Dykxhoorn and Prof David Osborn

Pre- and post-doctoral fellows

• Michelle Arellano Spano: Michelle joins our team as a post-doctoral research fellow. She recently completed her PhD at University of Bristol, and will be working on several projects exploring social environmental factors and mental illness. Exciting things to come!

• Kate Dotsikas: Kate joined our team as a pre-doctoral research fellow interested in housing insecurity. She led research exploring trajectories of housing affordability and mental health. She also led work on the gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and hostile environment policies and the mental health of minoritised ethnic groups. After her fellowship, she has moved on complete her PhD at the Sorbonne.

• Dr Ruth Plackett. Ruth joined the PMH team as a post-doctoral research fellow. I have worked with her on a cohort study exploring the link between social media and mental health. Since completing her NIHR launching fellowship, she has secured a NIHR Three Schools Mental Health fellowship to continue her research.

MSc students

• Ridha Mahmood (2023): Impact of climate change on mental health of vulnerable groups

• Liying (Justina) Cao (2023): Urban heat islands and mental health

• Bhavya Gupta (2023): Psychosocial interventions for those with co-morbid ADHD and substance use disorders

• Haneen Hakeem (2023): Integrated vs. non-integrated treatment approaches for co-occuring substance use and post-traumatic stress disorder

• Yue (Annie) Yu (2023): Social media behaviours and mental health

• Shuyu Zhou (2023): The impact of social media on mental health of young adults.

• Melisa Yimaz (2022): Social exclusion and mental health

• Lilian Burr (2022): Refugee status and affective psychotic disorders

• Fiona Lin (2021): Neighbourhood characteristics at migration and psychosis risk

• Spyros Spyridonidis (2021): Neighbourhood-level predictors of the age of onset of psychotic disorders

• Tanuja Noor (2021): Systematic review of discrimination measures

• Merle Schlief(2020): Differential association between income trajectories in childhood and severe mental illness by migrant status

• Angela Chase (2020): Neighbourhood-level social capital and incidence of psychosis preprint

• Kavya Ashok (2019): Objective and subjective neighbourhood factors and risk of suicidal thoughts and attempts

• Zsofia Dombi (2019): The incidence of depressive disorders among first- and second-generation migrants and refugees

• James Terhune (2018): Migrant status and risk of compulsory admission at first diagnosis of psychotic disorder: a population-based cohort study in Sweden

• Sarah Ledden (2018): The association between community level social capital and psychological distress

• Sam Harris (2017): A nationwide study of the incidence of substance use disorders in refugee and migrant groups in Sweden: a cohort study of 1.2 million people