Professor Steven Marwaha

School of Psychology
Clinical Professorial Fellow
Institute for Mental Health

Contact details

Telephone: 0121 414 3665
Email: s.marwaha@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @PsychMarwaha

Address: 52 Pritchatts Road
University of Birmingham
B15 2TT

Steven Marwaha is an academic Psychiatrist whose main interest is in early intervention and mood disorders, such as bipolar disorder and depression. His work focusses on pathways to illness and care, and ways of improving the clinical outcomes of this group using both pharmacological and psychological interventions. As a Consultant Psychiatrist he runs the Specialist Mood Disorders Clinic in Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust.

Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust
IMH Postgraduate Research Lead
University of Birmingham Integrated Academic Training Psychiatry Lead
CRN: West Midlands Clinical Research Speciality Lead for Mental Health
Bipolar UK Commissioner (further information)

Qualifications

BA (Hons), MBBS (Lond), MRCPsych, MA (Cantab), MSc, Phd

Biography

Steven read Medicine and Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and qualified as a medical doctor at University College London (UCL) completing his post graduate Psychiatry training there. He was a Clinical Lecturer in Social and Community Psychiatry at UCL before moving to be a Senior Lecturer and then Reader at the University of Warwick. He took up his current post in 2018.

Postgraduate supervision

Current PhD Supervision

Buse Durdurak: Similarities and differences in emerging bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder

Nada Altaweel: Psychological risk factors for relapse in major depressive disorder

Peter Rush: Pharmacological treatment of affective instability transdiagnostically across mental disorders.

Tuba Kurt: Examining the different rates of depression in children and young people

Those wishing to apply to work with Prof Marwaha are encouraged to contact him directly by email.

Research

Current research projects:

Mental Health Productivity Pilot

The Mental Health and Productivity Programme (MHPP) is collaborating across a range of diverse partners to provide an evidence informed, cost effective and sustainable resource that supports good mental health at work, reduces stigma and will ultimately increase productivity.

SNAPPER

The clinical and cost-effectiveness of Stimulant compared with Non-stimulant medication for adults with Attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder and a history of Psychosis or biPolar disordER: SNAPPER

CRIB2 Trial

Cognitive Remediation in Bipolar (CRiB2): a randomised trial assessing efficacy and mechanisms of cognitive remediation therapy compared to treatment as usual.

Community Navigator Trial

Randomised controlled trial of the Community Navigator programme to reduce loneliness and depression for adults with treatment resistant depression in secondary mental health services.

The TLC Study

Therapies for Long COVID in non-hospitalised individuals: the TLC Study

Research interests:

Bi-polar disorder
Depression
Mood instability
Early Intervention

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Durdurak, BB, Morales-Munoz, I, Hosang, GM & Marwaha, S 2025, 'ADHD symptom trajectories across childhood and early adolescence and risk for hypomanic symptoms in young adulthood', European Psychiatry, vol. 68, no. 1, e37. https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2025.24

Chen, Y, Aitken, Z, Hammond, D, Thompson, A, Marwaha, S, Davey, C, Berk, M, McGorry, P, Chanen, A, Nelson, B & Ratheesh, A 2025, 'Adverse childhood experiences and their differential relationships with transdiagnostic mental health outcomes in young adults', Psychological Medicine, vol. 55, e147. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291725000893

Gill, K, Hett, D, Carlish, M, Amos, R, Khatibi, A, Morales-Munoz, I & Marwaha, S 2025, 'Examining the needs, outcomes and current treatment pathways of 2461 people with treatment-resistant depression: mixed-methods study', British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 2025, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.275

Altaweel, N, Upthegrove, R & Marwaha, S 2025, 'The impact of personality traits on the return of major depression: a case-control study', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 16, 1454673. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1454673

Plappert, H, Byng, R, Reilly, ST, Hobson-Merrett, C, Allard, J, Baker, E, Britten, N, Calvert, M, Clark, M, Creanor, S, Davies, L, Denyer, R, Frost, J, Gask, L, Gibbons, B, Gibson, J, Gill, L, Gwernan-Jones, R, Hosking, J, Huxley, P, Jeffery, A, Jones, B, Keeley, T, Laugharne, R, Marwaha, S, Planner, C, Rawcliffe, T, Retzer, A, Richards, D, Sayers, R, Williams, L, Pinfold, V & Birchwood, M 2024, 'Collaborative care intervention for individuals with severe mental illness: the PARTNERS2 programme including complex intervention development and cluster RCT', Programme Grants for Applied Research, vol. 12, no. 6, 100. https://doi.org/10.3310/YAET7368

Durdurak, BB, Williams, B, Zhigalov, A, Moore, A, Mallikarjun, P, Wong, D, Marwaha, S & Morales-Muñoz, I 2024, 'Factors associated with chronic depressive symptoms across adolescence and young adulthood: a UK birth cohort study', Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, vol. 33, e32. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2045796024000350

Altaweel, N, Upthegrove, R & Marwaha, S 2024, 'Personality traits and change in depression status at 18 months: Findings from a British Psychiatric Morbidity Survey', Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 367, pp. 157-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.08.190

Morales-Munoz, I, Marwaha, S, Upthegrove, R & Cropley, V 2024, 'Role of Inflammation in Short Sleep Duration Across Childhood and Psychosis in Young Adulthood', JAMA psychiatry, vol. 81, no. 8, pp. 825-833. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.0796

Manitsa, I, Gregory, AM, Broome, MR, Bagshaw, AP, Marwaha, S & Morales‐Muñoz, I 2024, 'Shorter night‐time sleep duration and later sleep timing from infancy to adolescence', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.14004

Prudenzi, A, Gill, K, MacArthur, M, Hastings, O, Moukhtarian, T, Jadhakhan, F, Patel, K, Kershaw, C, Norton-Brown, E, Johnston, N, Daly, G, Russell, S, Thomson, L, Munir, F, Blake, H, Meyer, C & Marwaha, S 2024, 'Supporting employers and their employees with mental hEalth conditions to remain eNgaged and producTive at wORk (MENTOR): A feasibility randomised controlled trial', Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, vol. 31, 100720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2023.100720

Palmer, ER, Morales-Muñoz, I, Perry, BI, Marwaha, S, Warwick, E, Rogers, JC & Upthegrove, R 2024, 'Trajectories of Inflammation in Youth and Risk of Mental and Cardiometabolic Disorders in Adulthood', JAMA psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.2193

Comment/debate

Jauhar, S, Arnone, D, Baldwin, DS, Bloomfield, M, Browning, M, Cleare, AJ, Corlett, P, Deakin, JFW, Erritzoe, D, Fu, C, Fusar-Poli, P, Goodwin, GM, Hayes, J, Howard, R, Howes, OD, Juruena, MF, Lam, RW, Lawrie, SM, McAllister-Williams, H, Marwaha, S, Matuskey, D, McCutcheon, RA, Nutt, DJ, Pariante, C, Pillinger, T, Radhakrishnan, R, Rucker, J, Selvaraj, S, Stokes, P, Upthegrove, R, Yalin, N, Yatham, L, Young, AH, Zahn, R & Cowen, PJ 2023, 'A leaky umbrella has little value: evidence clearly indicates the serotonin system is implicated in depression', Molecular Psychiatry, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 3149-3152. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-023-02095-y

Review article

Durdurak, BB, Morales Munoz, I, de Cates, A, Wiseman, CE, Broome, MR & Marwaha, S 2025, 'Underlying biological mechanisms of emotion dysregulation in Bipolar Disorder', Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 16, 1552992. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1552992

Bamford, J, Qurashi, I, Axiaq, A, Marwaha, S & Husain, N 2024, 'Comorbid ADHD and schizophrenia and the use of psychostimulants: a scoping review protocol', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 10, e090290. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-090290

Palmier-Claus, J, Golby, R, Stokes, L-J, Saville, CWN, Velemis, K, Varese, F, Marwaha, S, Tyler, E & Taylor, P 2024, 'The relationship between childhood adversity and affective instability across psychiatric disorders: A meta-analysis', Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.13745

View all publications in research portal