Professorships in child and adolescent psychiatry relative to a similarly sized medical specialty in the UK and Ireland: cross-sectional study
Despite equivalent numbers of medical specialists in child and adolescent psychiatry and neurology, there is a striking disparity in the number of professorship appointments. While young peoples' mental health has, ostensibly, become a priority for policy-makers and funders, this is not reflected in medical professorship appointments. The paucity of senior academic child and adolescent psychiatrists has real-world implications for training, research, innovation and service development in mental health services.
Authors
- Bernadka Dubicka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8907-8589)
- Helen Minnis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2377-8945)
- Fiona McNicholas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9428-6908)
- Anita Thapar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3689-737X)
- Kirstie O’Hare (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1166-9792)
- Louise Gallagher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-2836)
- Ian Kelleher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1484-651X)
- Elaine Lockhart
- Tamsin Jane Ford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5295-4904)
- Valentina Kieseppä (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5366-7448)
- Aleksandra Z. Poziemska
Institutions
- University College Dublin (IE)
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CA)
- Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Trinity College Dublin (IE)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Hospital for Sick Children (CA)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- University of York (GB)
- University of Glasgow (GB)
- Cardiff University (GB)
- University of Oulu (FI)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Published
- 2025-02-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.179
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 15.47
Funders
- University of Glasgow
- Cardiff University
- University College Dublin
- Trinity College Dublin
- University of New South Wales
- University of Toronto
- Hospital for Sick Children
- Oulun Yliopisto
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto