pPOD is based between two sites; the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry and the Centre for Mental Health at Imperial College, London. The team comprises psychologists, psychiatrists and other doctors. It is jointly led by Dr Paul Ramchandani and Dr Susannah Murphy.
Current Research Team
Paul Ramchandani
Paul is LEGO® Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning at Cambridge University, UK. He leads a research team investigating the role of play in children’s early development. He also works as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service. |
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Kirsten Barnicot
Kirsten Barnicot is an NIHR Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Imperial College London involved in both ACORN and Healthy Start, Happy Start. |
Ellen Grimås
Ellen is currently working on the Healthy Start Happy Start study. Alongisde this role she is doing a PhD in Clinical Medicine, looking at coparenting behaviour as a risk factor in the development of child psychopathology. |
Jane Iles
Jane is a Clinical Psychologist and works as a Research Associate at Imperial College London. She is currently working on the Healthy Start, Happy Start study in the Centre for Mental Health, Imperial College London. 
Emily Pearson
Emily is a research assistant on the Healthy Start, Happy Start study. Emily leads recruitment in Camden and is an intervener for the trial. 
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Christine O'Farrelly
Christine is a postdoctoral Trial Manager on the Healthy Start, Happy Start study. Her research interests include programme evaluation, research methods, infant mental health, and parental wellbeing. 
Eloise Stevens
Eloise is a Research Associate working on the Healthy Start, Happy Start study. Her role includes supervising the interveners delivering the VIPP-SD programme to trial families. 
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Former pPOD team members
Susannah Murphy
Susannah is a senior postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. She completed a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford in 2007, funded by The Wellcome Trust, and an MSc in Neuroscience, also at Oxford University. |
Lorraine Als
Lorraine is a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London. Her research at Imperial College has focused on the development of psychopathology in children and their parents following an acute episode of paediatric critical illness. |
Rajinder Ballman Rajinder is a Clinical Psychologist working on the Healthy Start, Happy Start study. Her role includes supervising the interveners delivering the VIPP-SD programme to trial families. |
Eleanor Calver
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Marina Fabrega Ribera
Marina is a Koplowitz Fellow at Imperial College London. She also works as a honorary psychiatrist at Westminster CAMHS and as an intervener in the Healthy Start, Happy Start study. |
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Philippa Kemsley
Philippa is a research health visitor leading recruitment into the Healthy Start, Happy Start study in Islington and is also an intervener for the trial. 
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Kike Olajide
Kike is a Wellcome Global Health Clinical Research Fellow at the Centre for Psychiatry. 
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Mijke van den Berg
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