The UKRI Mental Health Platform (MHP) Early Career Researcher (ECR) Fellowships support outstanding early‑career researchers to lead independent research projects on severe mental illness. Fellows work across multiple MHP hubs and in close partnership with people with lived experience, building interdisciplinary networks and developing the skills needed for research independence.
Annie Jeffery
Dr Annie Jeffery is an epidemiologist at UCL, specialising in the relationship between depression, metabolic health, and how this is influenced by the wider context of people's lives.
Justin Yang
Dr Justin Yang is a psychiatric epidemiologist and health data scientist specialising in data-driven approaches to mental health research.
Samuel Leighton
Dr Samuel Leighton is an academic consultant psychiatrist at the University of Edinburgh who works clinically at Leverndale Hospital, Glasgow.
Fabiana Corsi Zuelli
Dr Fabiana Corsi Zuelli is a researcher at the University of Oxford, specialising in cellular immune mechanisms in psychosis.
Rosemary Bamford
Dr Rosemary Bamford is a neuroscientist specialising in next generation sequencing technologies, which she currently applies to study neuropsychiatric disorders in human brain samples.