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Working with multiple supervisors
We will help you to identify primary and secondary supervisors for your project. Collaborating with a wide range of supervisors is positively encouraged by the Board and the MRF/MRC.
Primary and secondary supervisors
A basic scientist or non-psychiatrist clinician will usually be appointed as your primary PhD supervisor. These will typically be world-leading scientists, who are members of collaborative Institutes/Centres.
Your secondary supervisor will typically be another scientist, or a research psychiatrist, potentially in another location.
Working in different centres
Many options for movement and crossover between centres and supervisors will arise naturally for PsySTAR trainees. Fellows will have the opportunity to forge new links and collaborations in keeping with their own interests during their discussions with the array of potential supervisors.
We expect that many PsySTAR trainees will work with two scientists in two different cities, and we will do everything we can to help them to do so, to maximise the scientific exposure, the breadth of the advice obtained, and to optimise the training experience.
Example PhD possibilities
- Deary (Edinburgh) and Macintyre (Glasgow) - Cognitive mediators of liability and resilience to environmental risk factors for psychiatric morbidity in Generation Scotland
- MacKenzie (Aberdeen) and Steele (Dundee) - Gene expression in depression, including imaging evaluation of new findings from genome-wide studies
- Pimlott (Glasgow) and Welch (Aberdeen) - Developing and testing novel PET radioligands
- Lambert (Dundee) and Hall (Edinburgh) - Investigating the role of GABA receptors in mediating the neural effects of early life stress in transgenic mouse models
- Ford (Glasgow) and Sullivan (Dundee) - Record linkage naturalistic follow-up of trial data to evaluate novel approaches to antidepressant treatment
- Wulff (Aberdeen) & Morris (Edinburgh) - Synaptic inhibition in hippocampal circuits and their role in schizophrenia
Projects could include an even wider distribution of supervisors.
This article was published on Oct 5, 2011