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Dr. Clara Humpston is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Mental Health at the Department of Psychology, University of York, since April 2022. With a PhD in Cognitive Neuropsychiatry from Cardiff University (2018), she has held postdoctoral roles at King’s College London (2017-2019) and the University of Birmingham (2019-2022). Her research bridges psychopharmacology, cognitive neuropsychiatry, and phenomenology, focusing on schizophrenia-spectrum psychoses through the York-based HATSS Lab.
- PhD in Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Cardiff University (2018)
- MSc in Psychiatric Research, King’s College London (2012)
- BSc in Pharmacology, University of Bristol (2011)
Her work emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, particularly through the International Consortium for Hallucination Research. Key themes include predictive processing, source monitoring, and ontologically impossible experiences in schizophrenia. She supervises PhD students Ellie Maycock, Charlotte Aynsworth, and Rose Ritunnano, and has secured multiple grants including University of York Impact Fund (2023) and NIHR funding (2023).
Recent publications analyze paradoxes in schizophrenia, multimodal hallucinations, and the role of self-disorders. She contributes to editorial boards of journals like Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Philosophical Psychology, and has delivered international keynotes in Chile, Belgium, and Spain on psychosis phenomenology.
- 2020 Fellowship of the UK Higher Education Academy
- 2018 Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Best Young Researcher Paper Award
- 2015 MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Prize
Dr. Humpston leads the Advanced Schizophrenia Module at York and co-directs the MSc Psychology of Mental Health program. She serves as a grant reviewer for institutions including the Medical Research Council and Wellcome Trust.
