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 registered psychologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences. I completed my DPhil at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.

Research Interests

I am interested in behavioural interventions that 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

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

Education  

I was awarded 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 as a research assistant. In 2018, I joined Oxford.

Senior Hulme scholarship (2021), University of Oxford

Doctoral scholarship (2019-22), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

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

Postgraduate scholarship (2015-16), Leverhulme Trust

COSMIC: COgnitive behavioural therapy for people with Severe Mental illness and obesity targeting Insomnia Care (2023-25), Principal Investigator, NIHR BRC

WHEEL: Weight cHange for people with sErious mEntal iLlness (2019-24), Principal Investigator, NIHR ARC

Module Lead (2021-present), BSc Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford 

Tutor (2022-present), BSc Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford 

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