Professor Veena Kumari
Professor - Psychology
Quad North 148
- Email: veena.kumari@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268053
PhD projects for research students
Research supervision
Doctoral Supervision
*Primary supervisor
*Krupa Vakani
Topic: Neuropsychology of COVID-19
PhD: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Brunel University London
Start Date: 01 Oct 2020 (FT)
Ms Anam Saifullah
Topic: Mindfulness and Sensory Processing
PhD: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Brunel University London
Start date: 01 Oct 2020 (FT)
*Dr Piyal Sen
Topic: Cholesterol and Violence in Schizophrenia
PhD: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Brunel University London
Start date: 01 Jan 2020 (PT)
*Dr Amir Yassari
Topic: Music for the Mind
PhD: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Brunel University London
Start date: 01 Oct 2018 (PT)
*Ms Martina Vanova
Topic: Reading skills deficits in mental illness: A multimodal analysis
PhD: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Brunel University London
Start date: 01 Oct 2018- Submitted March 2022.
*Dr Luke Aldridge-Waddon
Topic: The Influence of Dimensional Psychopathology on Social and Monetary Reward Sensitivity and Reactivity
PhD: Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Brunel University London
Date: 01 Oct 2018- Completed Sept 2021.
*Dr Ottilie Sedgwick
Topic: The Contribution of Dissocial Personality Disorder to Cognition, Emotion Processing and Clinical Outcome in Violent Men with Psychosis
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2017.
*Dr Adegboyega Sapara
Topic: Neurobiology of Insight in Psychosis: A Functional and Structural MRI Study
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2016.
Dr Peera Wongupparaj
Topic: Breaking through Working Memory Components and Functions in Relation to Higher Order Cognition: An Event Related Potential Study
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2016.
Dr Raphael Underwood
Topic: Cognitive and Neural Processes in the Pathway to Psychosis
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2016.
*Dr Bernice Wright
Topic: Noise Stress and Cognitive Function in Schizophrenia
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2015.
*Dr Liam Mason
Topic: The Neural Mechanisms of CBT and Resilience to Relapse in Psychosis
D Clin Psych (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2015.
Dr Akiko Suzuki
Topic: Emotional Processing in Mood Disorder: Clarifying the Role of Childhood Trauma
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2012.
*Dr Preethi Premkumar
Topic: Neural, Clinical and Cognitive Predictors of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychosis
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2011.
Dr Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh
Topic: The Neuroanatomical Basis of Cognitive Dysfunction in Frontal Lobe and Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsies
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2011.
*Dr Natasha Khan
Topic: Cognitive and Motivational Determinants of Smoking Behaviour
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2010
Dr Jigar Jogia
Topic: Gender Differences in Patterns of Neural Activation during Working Memory and Emotional Decision Making in Bipolar Disorder
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2010.
*Dr Catherine Reed
Topic: Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia: State or Trait?
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2010.
Dr Alexander Sumich
Topic: Event-Related Potential Studies of Heterogeneity in the Schizophrenia Spectrum
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2009.
Dr Linda Fisher
Topic: The Experience of Thirst and Drinking in Haemodialysis Patients on a Fluid Restriction
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2009.
Dr Anastasia Christodoulou
Topic: Cognitive Vulnerability Indicators in Bipolar Disorder
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2008.
Dr Rozmin Halari
Topic: The Role of Symptoms and Neuroticism in Coping Strategies in Schizophrenia.
D Clin Psych (Royal Hollway, University of London, and Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2007.
*Dr Michael Cooke
Topic: Insight and Coping in Schizophrenia: Relationship to Executive Function and Brain Structures
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2006.
*Dr Ian Barkataki
Topic: The Neurobiology of Violence in Mental Illness
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2005.
*Dr Elena Antonova
Topic: Structural Alterations in Schizophrenia: Relationship to Cognitive Deficits and Drug Response
PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK) - awarded 2004.
Dr Rozmin Halari
Topic: Sex Differences and Hormonal Influences in Cognitive Performance in Normal and Schizophrenic Populations
PhD (City University, London, and Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK) - awarded 2003.
Dr Ulrich Ettinger
Topic: Smooth Pursuit and Antisaccade Eye Movements as Endophenotypes in Schizophrenia Spectrum Research
PhD (Goldsmiths College, London, and Institute of Psychiatry, London) - awarded 2002.
Dr Peggy Postma
Topic: An Experimental and Neuroimaging Study into the Effects of Nicotine on Prepulse Inhibition in Schizophrenia.
PhD (City University, London, and Institute of Psychiatry, London) - awarded 2002.