Paul has been Reader in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Imperial College since May 2012.  He also works as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the NHS with CNWL NHS Foundation Trust.

Prior to this he worked for 10 years in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford.

Research

Paul's research investigates the links between parents' and children's health.  He particularly focusses on the influence of depression, in both mothers and fathers, on children’s early development, and the development of depression in children and adolescents. This work has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, and NIHR.

There are two particular strands to the work. One component is concerned particularly with the role of fathers in children's early development, and the second has a focus on the role of stress and depression in pregnancy.  You can read more about this on the website of the pPOD team (http://www.ppod.org.uk/).