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About the Academic Psychiatry Faculty
The Academic Faculty aims to promote, facilitate, and stimulate interest in high-quality clinical research and teaching.
We are also concerned with ensuring the availability of appropriate clinical training and job opportunities for those entering academic careers.
The Academic Faculty promotes academic psychiatry as a key area of relevance to all psychiatrists.
Academic psychiatrists undertake research and educational activities to improve our understanding and treatment of psychiatric disorders. The field of academic psychiatry is inter-disciplinary, cuts across all specialities and levels of practice, and promotes inclusivity/diversity.
The priorities for the Faculty include:
- raising awareness that all resident doctors need research training – not only those pursuing an academic career
- promoting academic psychiatry as a career
- ensuring that academic psychiatry takes into consideration experiences from patients and carers
- advocating for recognition of the valuable contribution of academic psychiatry and clinical academics to delivery of high quality mental health services
- ensuring academic skills are recognised as being integral to evidence-based practice
- supporting the development, improvement and dissemination of evidence-based interventions
- representing the views and interests of academic psychiatrists of all levels within the College
- ensuring funding organisations and government bodies recognise potential to contribution to guiding, delivering and implementing studies of mental health, and interfaces with other medical specialties
- encouraging the College to lobby for resources for psychiatric research and training with external organisations
- advising on academic aspects of training (i.e. research and teaching skills) for all psychiatrists and on all aspects of training for academic psychiatrists
- advising on issues relating to CPD appraisal and revalidation for academic psychiatrists
- promoting and facilitating psychiatric research, including through research networks and partnerships
- encouraging and facilitating the highest academic standards at College meetings
- encouraging Higher Education Institutions to offer relevant and appealing curricula in undergraduate psychiatry
- improving the quality of, and evidence base for, teaching in psychiatry
- communicating evidence-based diverse perspectives on mental health and psychiatric disorders to the public.
The Academic Faculty is open to all College members and fellows. It is of special relevance for those working within universities and other academic institutions and those for whom research and/or education comprise a substantial part of their job plans.
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Executive Committee
| Member | Year of joining | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. Allan Young | 2024 (E) | Chair |
| Dr Lindsey Sinclair | 2026 (E) | Vice Chair |
| Prof. Saeed Farooq | 2026 (E) | Financial Officer |
| Dr Oliver Sparasci | 2024 (E) | Academic Secretary |
| Dr Sherlie Arulanandam | 2025 (C) | Associate Dean |
| Prof. Matthew Broome | 2026 (E) | Committee Member |
| Prof. Jonathan Cavanagh | 2023 (C) | Scotland |
| Dr Laura Convertino | 2025 (C) | Higher Trainee Representative |
| Dr Ken Courtenay | 2026 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr David Cousins | 2025 (C) | Psychopharmacology Committee |
| Prof. Helen Crimlisk | 2026 (E) | Committee Member |
| Prof. Hugo Critchley | 2024 (C) | Immediate Past Chair |
| Prof. Naomi Fineberg | 2025 (C) | BAP Representative |
| Prof. Cynthia Fu | 2026 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr Abigail Gee | 2025 (C) | Higher Trainee Representative |
| Prof. Peter Haddad | 2026 (E) | Committee Member |
| Prof. Angela Hassiotis | 2024 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr Sameer Jauhar | 2026 (C) | Committee Member |
| Prof. Kenneth Kaufman | 2025 (C) | Committee Member |
| Prof. Ania Korszun | 2024 (C) | Committee Member |
| Dr Emmeline Lagunes Cordoba | 2021 (C) | SAS Doctor Representative |
| Dr Pallab Majumder | 2024 (E) | Committee Member |
| Prof. Gin Malhi | 2023 (C) | Editor |
| Dr Ismail Memon | 2024 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr Kapil Sayal | 2024 (E) | Committee Member |
| Prof. Rohit Shankar | 2024 (C) | Associate Dean |
| Dr Sridevi Sira Mahalingappa | 2026 (C) | Committee Member |
| Dr Lucy Stirland | 2024 (E) | Committee Member |
| Prof. Peter Woodruff | 2024 (E) | Committee Member |