Professor Matthew Broome BSc (Hons), MBChB (Hons), PGCAP, PhD, PhD, FRCPsych

BSc (Hons), MBChB (Hons), PGCAP, PhD, PhD, FRCPsych

Matthew is medical doctor and who has undertaken postgraduate training in psychiatry.  He works clinically as Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Birmingham.  Matthew has PhDs in both Psychiatry (neuroimaging and cognitive neuropsychology) and in Philosophy.

Matthew studied as an undergraduate at the University of Birmingham, where he graduated with degrees in Neuropharmacology and in Medicine.  After working as a junior doctor in the University Hospitals in Birmingham, he moved to the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to undertake training in postgraduate psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, Bethlem Royal Hospital, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.  After attaining his MRCPsych, Matthew was clinical research fellow and subsequently Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, where he undertook his first PhD. During this time, he helped the development of novel Early Intervention in Psychosis services in South London, and specifically the OASIS service for those who may be in the prodromal phase of illness.

In 2006, Matthew was appointed as Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Warwick and, in 2013, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Oxford.  He remains affiliated to St Hilda’s College and is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford.  In 2017, he returned to the University of Birmingham to take up his current post. In parallel to his University role, Matthew is Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist to the East Birmingham Early Intervention in Psychosis service, part of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, and is NIHR CRN West Midlands Clinical Research Lead.

Matthew teaching on the School of Psychology undergraduate Psychology courses and is part of the leadership team for the Institute for Mental Health MSc in Mental Health. He co-leads (with Lisa Bortolotti) the module in the Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Matthew is interested in supervising students in the following areas:

• Delusions
• Prodromal Psychosis and the ARMS/UHR
• Mood instability and dysregulation
• The relationship between autism and schizophrenia
• Functional neuroimaging and psychiatry
• Phenomenological psychopathology
• Interdisciplinary mental health
• Philosophy and ethics of mental health

Please contact Matthew directly.

Current Doctoral Research Students

Delfina Bilello

Joseph Houlders 

Aneela Khan

Eugenia Lancellotta

Noorit Larson

Lucy Prior

Rosa Ritunanno

Jess Williams

Post-doctoral Research Fellows

Clara Humpston

Isabel Morales-Munoz

Research interests:

Early psychosis (first episode and prodrome), delusion formation, mood instability, autism and schizophrenia, GABA, psychiatric neuroimaging, phenomenological psychopathology,  philosophy and ethics of mental health, interdisciplinary mental health, youth mental health, medical humanities.

Researcher identifier numbers:

orcid.org/0000-0002-6963-8884
Scopus Author ID: 7006823993

Matthew is Deputy Editor of The British Journal of Psychiatry, and editor for the Oxford University Press book series, International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry.

Matthew is an Executive Committee member of the International Association of Youth Mental Health.