Professor Matthew Broome BSc (Hons), MBChB (Hons), PGCAP, PhD, PhD, FRCPsych

Professor Matthew Broome

School of Psychology
Professor of Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health
Director of the Institute for Mental Health

Contact details

Telephone
01214147197
Email
m.r.broome@bham.ac.uk
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Address
School of Psychology
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Youth Mental Health - Birmingham HeroesMatthew is an academic psychiatrist and Director of the Institute for Mental Health at the University.  He is a leader in the field of early psychosis and in the philosophy and ethics of mental health.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), MBChB (Hons), PGCAP, PhD, PhD, FRCPsych

Matthew is medical doctor and who has undertaken postgraduate training in psychiatry.  He works clinically as Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Birmingham.  Matthew has PhDs in both Psychiatry (neuroimaging and cognitive neuropsychology) and in Philosophy.

Biography

Matthew studied as an undergraduate at the 黑料吃瓜网, where he graduated with degrees in Neuropharmacology and in Medicine.  After working as a junior doctor in the University Hospitals in Birmingham, he moved to the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to undertake training in postgraduate psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, Bethlem Royal Hospital, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.  After attaining his MRCPsych, Matthew was clinical research fellow and subsequently Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, where he undertook his first PhD. During this time, he helped the development of novel Early Intervention in Psychosis services in South London, and specifically the OASIS service for those who may be in the prodromal phase of illness.

 

In 2006, Matthew was appointed as Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Warwick and, in 2013, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Oxford.  He remains affiliated to St Hilda’s College and is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford.  In 2017, he returned to the 黑料吃瓜网 to take up his current post. In parallel to his University role, Matthew is Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist to the East Birmingham Early Intervention in Psychosis service, part of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, and is NIHR CRN West Midlands Clinical Research Lead.

Teaching

Matthew teaching on the School of Psychology undergraduate Psychology courses and is part of the leadership team for the Institute for Mental Health MSc in Mental Health. He co-leads (with Lisa Bortolotti) the module in the Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Postgraduate supervision

Matthew is interested in supervising students in the following areas:

  • Delusions
  • Prodromal Psychosis and the ARMS/UHR
  • Mood instability and dysregulation
  • The relationship between autism and schizophrenia
  • Functional neuroimaging and psychiatry
  • Phenomenological psychopathology
  • Interdisciplinary mental health
  • Philosophy and ethics of mental health

Please contact Matthew directly.

Current Doctoral Research Students

Delfina Bilello

Joseph Houlders 

Aneela Khan

Eugenia Lancellotta

Noorit Larson

Lucy Prior

Rosa Ritunanno

Jess Williams

Post-doctoral Research Fellows

Clara Humpston

Isabel Morales-Munoz

Research

Research interests:

Early psychosis (first episode and prodrome), delusion formation, mood instability, autism and schizophrenia, GABA, psychiatric neuroimaging, phenomenological psychopathology,  philosophy and ethics of mental health, interdisciplinary mental health, youth mental health, medical humanities.

Researcher identifier numbers:

orcid.org/0000-0002-6963-8884

Other activities

Matthew is Deputy Editor of The British Journal of Psychiatry, and editor for the Oxford University Press book series, International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry.

Matthew is an Executive Committee member of the International Association of Youth Mental Health. 

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Accelerating Medicines Partnership庐 Schizophrenia (AMP庐 SCZ), Allott, K, Yassin, W, Alameda, L, Billah, T, Borders, O, Buccilli, K, Carri贸n, RE, Castillo-Passi, RI, Cho, KIK, Chin, K, Coleman, MJ, Colton, B-L, Corral, S, Dwyer, D, Gundersen, KB, Gur, RC, Hoftman, GD, Jacobs, GR, Kelly, S, Lewandowski, KE, Marcy, PJ, Matneja, P, McLaughlin, D, Nunez, AR, Parsa, S, Penzel, N, Ray, S, Reinen, JM, Ruparel, K, Sand, MS, Santorelli, G, Seitz-Holland, J, Spark, J, Tamayo, Z, Thompson, A, Tod, S, Wannan, CMJ, Wickham, A, Wood, SJ, Zoupou, E, Addington, J, Anticevic, A, Arango, C, Breitborde, NJK, Broome, MR, Cadenhead, KS, Calkins, ME, Chen, EYH, Choi, J, Conus, P, Corcoran, CM, Cornblatt, BA, Ellman, LM, Fusar-Poli, P, Gaspar, PA, Gerber, C, Glenth酶j, LB, Horton, LE, Hui, CLM, Kambeitz, J, Kambeitz-Ilankovic, L, Keshavan, M, Kim, SW, Koutsouleris, N, Kwon, JS, Langbein, K, Mamah, D, Diaz鈥怌aneja, CM, Mathalon, DH, Mittal, VA, Nordentoft, M, Pearlson, GD, Perkins, DO, Perez, J, Powers III, AR, Rogers, J, Sabb, FW, Schiffman, J, Shah, JL, Silverstein, SM, Smesny, S, Strauss, GP, Thompson, JL, Upthegrove, R, Verma, SK, Wang, J, Wolf, DH, Pasternak, O, Bouix, S, McGorry, PD, Kane, JM, Kahn, RS, Bearden, CE, Shenton, ME, Woods, SW, Nelson, B & Stone, WS 2025, '', Schizophrenia, vol. 11, no. 1, 49.

Street-Mattox, C, Broome, MR, Ng, F, Griffiths, L & Jordan, G 2025, '', Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, pp. 1-7.

Broeker, MD & Broome, MR 2025, '', Philosophical Psychology, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 331-352.

Wannan, CMJ, Nelson, B, Addington, J, Allott, K, Anticevic, A, Arango, C, Baker, JT, Bearden, CE, Billah, T, Bouix, S, Broome, MR, Buccilli, K, Cadenhead, KS, Calkins, ME, Cannon, TD, Cecci, G, Chen, EYH, Cho, KIK, Choi, J, Clark, SR, Coleman, MJ, Conus, P, Corcoran, CM, Cornblatt, BA, Diaz-Caneja, CM, Dwyer, D, Ebdrup, BH, Ellman, LM, Fusar-Poli, P, Galindo, L, Gaspar, PA, Gerber, C, Glenth酶j, LB, Glynn, R, Harms, MP, Horton, LE, Kahn, RS, Kambeitz, J, Kambeitz-Ilankovic, L, Kane, JM, Kapur, T, Keshavan, MS, Kim, SW, Koutsouleris, N, Kubicki, M, Kwon, JS, Langbein, K, Lewandowski, KE, Light, GA, Mamah, D, Marcy, PJ, Mathalon, DH, McGorry, PD, Mittal, VA, Nordentoft, M, Nunez, A, Pasternak, O, Pearlson, GD, Perez, J, Perkins, DO, Powers, AR, Roalf, DR, Sabb, FW, Schiffman, J, Shah, JL, Smesny, S, Spark, J, Stone, WS, Strauss, GP, Tamayo, Z, Torous, J, Upthegrove, R, Vangel, M, Verma, S, Wang, J, Rossum, IWV, Wolf, DH, Wolff, P, Wood, SJ, Yung, AR, Agurto, C, Alvarez-Jimenez, M, Amminger, P, Armando, M, Asgari-Targhi, A, Cahill, J, Carri贸n, RE, Castro, E, Cetin-Karayumak, S, Mallar Chakravarty, M, Cho, YT, Cotter, D, D'Alfonso, S, Ennis, M, Fadnavis, S, Fonteneau, C, Gao, C, Gupta, T, Gur, RE, Gur, RC, Hamilton, HK, Hoftman, GD, Jacobs, GR, Jarcho, J, Ji, JL, Kohler, CG, Lalousis, PA, Lavoie, S, Lepage, M, Liebenthal, E, Mervis, J, Murty, V, Nicholas, SC, Ning, L, Penzel, N, Poldrack, R, Polosecki, P, Pratt, DN, Rabin, R, Rahimi Eichi, H, Rathi, Y, Reichenberg, A, Reinen, J, Rogers, J, Ruiz-Yu, B, Scott, I, Seitz-Holland, J, Srihari, VH, Srivastava, A, Thompson, A, Turetsky, BI, Walsh, BC, Whitford, T, Wigman, JTW, Yao, B, Yuen, HP, Ahmed, U, Byun, AJS, Chung, Y, Do, K, Hendricks, L, Huynh, K, Jeffries, C, Lane, E, Langholm, C, Lin, E, Mantua, V, Santorelli, G, Ruparel, K, Zoupou, E, Adasme, T, Addamo, L, Adery, L, Ali, M, Auther, A, Aversa, S, Baek, SH, Bates, K, Bathery, A, Bayer, JMM, Beedham, R, Bilgrami, Z, Birch, S, Bonoldi, I, Borders, O, Borgatti, R, Brown, L, Bruna, A, Carrington, H, Castillo-Passi, RI, Chen, J, Cheng, N, Ching, AE, Clifford, C, Colton, BL, Contreras, P, Corral, S, Damiani, S, Done, M, Estrad茅, A, Etuka, BA, Formica, M, Furlan, R, Geljic, M, Germano, C, Getachew, R, Goncalves, M, Haidar, A, Hartmann, J, Jo, A, John, O, Kerins, S, Kerr, M, Kesselring, I, Kim, H, Kim, N, Kinney, K, Krcmar, M, Kotler, E, Lafanechere, M, Lee, C, Llerena, J, Markiewicz, C, Matnejl, P, Maturana, A, Mavambu, A, Mayol-Troncoso, R, McDonnell, A, McGowan, A, McLaughlin, D, McIlhenny, R, McQueen, B, Mebrahtu, Y, Mensi, M, Hui, CLM, Suen, YN, Wong, SMY, Morrell, N, Omar, M, Partridge, A, Phassouliotis, C, Pichiecchio, A, Politi, P, Porter, C, Provenzani, U, Prunier, N, Raj, J, Ray, S, Rayner, V, Reyes, M, Reynolds, K, Rush, S, Salinas, C, Shetty, J, Snowball, C, Tod, S, Turra-Fari帽a, G, Valle, D, Veale, S, Whitson, S, Wickham, A, Youn, S, Zamorano, F, Zavaglia, E, Zinberg, J, Woods, SW & Shenton, ME 2024, '', Schizophrenia bulletin, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 496-512.

Worrell, C, Pollard, R, Weetman, T, Sadiq, Z, Pieptan, M, Brooks, G, Broome, M, Campbell, N, Gardner, N, Harding, S, Lavis, A, McEachan, RRC, Mondelli, V, Morgan, C, Nosarti, C, Porat, T, Ryan, D, Schmid, L, Shire, K, Woods, A, Pariante, CM, CELEBRATE Youth Expert Working Group, Dazzan, P & Upthegrove, R 2024, '', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 6, e081360.

Bilello, D, Townsend, E, Broome, M & Burnett Heyes, S 2024, '', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 14, 1221661.

Bilello, D, Townsend, E, Broome, MR & Burnett Heyes, S 2024, '', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 14, 1221661.

COVID-CNS Consortium & Veenith, T 2024, '', Nature Medicine.

Chapter

Broeker, MD & Broome, M 2024, . in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion. 1 edn, Taylor and Francis, pp. 122-134.

Comment/debate

Stand Together Team, Bowes, L, Babu, M, Badger, JR, Broome, MR, Cannings-John, R, Clarkson, S, Coulman, E, Edwards, RT, Ford, T, Hastings, RP, Hayes, R, Lugg-Widger, F, Owen-Jones, E, Patterson, P, Segrott, J, Sydenham, M, Townson, J, Watkins, RC, Whiteley, H, Williams, ME & Hutchings, J 2025, '', Psychological Medicine, vol. 55, e107.

ISARIC4C Investigators, COVID-CNS Consortium, Michael, BD, Dunai, C, Needham, EJ, Tharmaratnam, K, Williams, R, Huang, Y, Boardman, SA, Clark, JJ, Sharma, P, Subramaniam, K, Wood, GK, Collie, C, Digby, R, Ren, A, Norton, E, Leibowitz, M, Ebrahimi, S, Fower, A, Fox, H, Tato, E, Ellul, MA, Sunderland, G, Held, M, Hetherington, C, Egbe, FN, Palmos, A, Stirrups, K, Grundmann, A, Chiollaz, AC, Sanchez, JC, Stewart, JP, Griffiths, M, Solomon, T, Breen, G, Coles, AJ, Kingston, N, Bradley, JR, Chinnery, PF, Cavanagh, J, Irani, SR, Vincent, A, Baillie, JK, Openshaw, PJ, Semple, MG, Taams, LS & Menon, DK 2024, '', Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 2918.

Broome, MR 2024, '', World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 239-240.

Editorial

Spencer, L, Broome, MR & Stanghellini, G 2025, '', Philosophical Psychology, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-16.

Review article

Durdurak, BB, Morales Munoz, I, de Cates, A, Wiseman, CE, Broome, MR & Marwaha, S 2025, '', Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 16, 1552992.

Bilello, D, Townsend, E, Broome, MR, Armstrong, G & Burnett Heyes, S 2024, '', The Lancet Psychiatry, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 633-657.

Expertise

I am a psychiatrist interested in the onset of mental disorders in young people. I have worked largely in the area of early psychosis, and am also interested in mood instability, autism, bullying, suicide and self-harm, and the philosophy and ethics of mental health.

  • Mental illness
  • Mental illness in young people
  • Early psychosis (especially high-risk)
  • Philosophy and ethics in mental health
  • Mood instability
  • Autism
  • Suicide and self-harm
  • Cognitive neuropsychology

Policy experience