Eight PhD projects at Centre for Urban Mental Health to begin

Eight PhD candidates will start this spring with interdisciplinary research at the Centre for Urban Mental Health at the UvA. In their projects, they will focus on psychological problems and conditions - such as depression, anxiety and addiction - among individuals and (vulnerable) groups in the city. Complexity science will form the basis of all of their research. People who live in the city are relatively often confronted with psychological problems and conditions such as depression, anxiety and addiction. Certain individuals and groups in the city are more vulnerable to this than others. In the interdisciplinary doctoral research projects that will take place at the Centre, special attention will be paid to those vulnerable groups. Lotte Brinkhof, for example, will look at developing preventive interventions aimed at raising the mental and physical resilience of vulnerable senior citizens.