Emily Hird

Emily Hird is a Researcher at King’s College London, affiliated with the Department of Psychosis Studies within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. She joined in 2018, focusing on large-scale projects like BBC, PSYSCAN, NEUTOP, and EU-GEI, which integrate multimodal data to predict outcomes in psychosis. Her research explores cognitive and brain mechanisms of psychosis, reward learning, placebo effects, neuroimaging (MRI/EEG), and predictive models of perception.

Education: PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Manchester (2018), with a research placement at the Karolinska Institute. Prior to King’s, she taught and mentored undergraduates at the University of Manchester.

Research interests emphasize precision psychiatry, combining neuroimaging techniques with computational models to understand psychosis. She has received awards from the Experimental Psychology Society, Wellcome Trust, and the Medical Research Council.

Teaching roles include personal tutoring for the Organisational Psychiatry and Psychology MSc and supervising students in Clinical Neuropsychiatry MSc and Early Intervention in Psychosis MSc programs.