Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 

NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Council 

NIHR Oxford Applied Research Collaboration

David Ray, Simon Kyle, Colin Espie, Paul Aveyard, Carmen Piernas, Felicity Waite

I am a DPhil Candidate at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and a Postdoctoral Researcher in behavioural science at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Research Interests

I am interested in behavioural interventions to address disorders and disease. I have focused on left-behind groups including people with mental illness and ethnic minorities. My expertise spans intervention development, qualitative methods and feasibility testing. 

Current Research

During my doctoral research, I developed a weight management intervention for people with serious mental illness. My postdoctoral research aims to develop an intervention for people with circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders. I serve as a Junior Dean at Brasenose College, Oxford. 

Education  

I am a registered psychologist and hold a BSc Psychology and Language Sciences from UCL and a MSc Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London. In 2016, I returned to UCL at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. In 2018, I joined Oxford.

Senior Hulme scholarship (2021), University of Oxford

Doctoral scholarship (2019), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Sackler Institute award for the highest grade (2016), King's College London 

Postgraduate scholarship (2015), Leverhulme Trust

Tutor (2022-present), Individual Differences and Clinical Psychology, BSc Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford 

Module co-lead (2021-22), Individual Differences and Clinical Psychology, BSc Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford 

Assistant (2019-present), Short Courses in Qualitative Research Methods, University of Oxford