In the mid-1990s, the medical anthropologist, Merill Singer, introduced the term “syndemic” to describe the simultaneous epidemics of the prior decade. Substance abuse, violence, and AIDS had acted synergistically to devastate vulnerable populations around the globe. During the Department of Psychiatry’s annual symposium, Professor Paul Fletcher used the same term to describe the current COVID-19 […]
Archives for December 2020
Interview with Dr. Hisham Ziauddeen, Psychiatric Communicator of the Year (2020)
We congratulate Dr. Hisham Ziauddeen for being named the Psychiatric Communicator of the Year (2020) from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Hisham is a Clinical Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry, working on understanding the brain systems involved in disordered eating and psychosis. Hisham tells us more about the importance of communication in science and […]
Mentoring for and by women in the Department of Psychiatry
An article was recently published by Nature Communications titled “The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance” (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19723-8). In our view, this study makes questionable assumptions to underpin its analysis of a large amount of open data on peer-reviewed publications, e.g., assuming that co-authorship equals mentoring. On this basis, […]
Dr Hisham Ziauddeen named RCPsych Communicator of the Year
Congratulations to Dr Hisham Ziauddeen, a a consultant psychiatrist in early intervention at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust as well as a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, who received the Psychiatric Communicator of the Year award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists on 19 Nov 2020. Keep an eye […]