Dr Chris Taylor

Senior Lecturer in Psychology, NIHR Fellow, University of Sheffield and Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Chris is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and NIHR Fellow in the School of Psychology at University of Sheffield. He also has a small role as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist  with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. The main aim of his work is  to contribute to improving our understanding of severe mental health conditions and develop new treatments tested in clinical trials. He led the NIHR funded iMAPS-2 trial of imagery focused therapy for psychosis as chief investigator and was a principal investigator on the CSO funded DEC:IDES trial, the first Umbrella design trial in mental health internationally. 

He is Co-Chief Investigator of the TRUST trial, a schools based adolescent paranoia RCT and a co-investigator on Young and Healthy Minds, a project to develop a screening measure for multiple severe mental health conditions. Chris is also a co-investigator on the ACTIVATE trial of THUMOS, a resilience boosting intervention for medical students. Chris also serves on the National Scientific Committee for the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), the lead organisation for CBT in UK and is Co-Chair of the Spring Conference. In 2021, he was recipient of the British Psychological Society’s May Davidson Award, for “an outstanding contribution to clinical psychology, within the first ten years of qualifying”.

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Team Alumni

Bukunmi Babatunde, Research Assistant, now Assistant Psychologist, GMMH NHS FT

Amy Beech, Research Assistant, now Trainee Clinical Psychologist, University of Lancaster

Dr Ben Helliwell, Highly Specialist Research Clinical Psychologist,

now NIHR PCAF Fellow and Principal Clinical Psychologist

Rebecca Coleman, Senior Research CBT Therapist,

now Trainee Clinical Psychologist, The University of Glasgow and Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Trust

Alicia Boland, Research Assistant,

now Trainee Clinical Psychologist, The University of Lancaster and Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Emma Sharrock, Research Assistant,

now Trainee Clinical Psychologist, The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Trust

Anvita Vikram, Research Assistant,

now Trainee Clinical Psychologist, The University of Exeter and Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Serena Guillemard, UG Placement Student and Researcher,

now Research Assistant, The University of Oxford