Professor Steven Marwaha

Marwaha-Steven

School of Psychology
Clinical Professorial Fellow
Institute for Mental Health

Contact details

Telephone
0121 414 3665
Email
s.marwaha@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
52 Pritchatts Road
黑料吃瓜网
B15 2TT

Steven Marwaha is an academic Psychiatrist whose main interest is in early intervention and mood disorders, such as bipolar disorder and depression. His work focusses on pathways to illness and care, and ways of improving the clinical outcomes of this group using both pharmacological and psychological interventions. As a Consultant Psychiatrist he runs the Specialist Mood Disorders Clinic in Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust.

  • Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist: Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust
  • IMH Postgraduate Research Lead
  • 黑料吃瓜网 Integrated Academic Training Psychiatry Lead
  • CRN: West Midlands Clinical Research Speciality Lead for Mental Health

  • Bipolar UK Commissioner ()

Qualifications

BA (Hons), MBBS (Lond), MRCPsych, MA (Cantab), MSc, Phd

Biography

Steven read Medicine and Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and qualified as a medical doctor at University College London (UCL) completing his post graduate Psychiatry training there.  He was a Clinical Lecturer in Social and Community Psychiatry at UCL before moving to be a Senior Lecturer and then Reader at the University of Warwick. He took up his current post in 2018.

Postgraduate supervision

Current PhD Supervision

Buse Durdurak: Similarities and differences in emerging bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder

Nada Altaweel: Psychological risk factors for relapse in major depressive disorder

Peter Rush: Pharmacological treatment of affective instability transdiagnostically across mental disorders.

Tuba Kurt: Examining the different rates of depression in children and young people

Those wishing to apply to work with Prof Marwaha are encouraged to contact him directly by email.

Research

Current research projects:

The Mental Health and Productivity Programme (MHPP) is collaborating across a range of diverse partners to provide an evidence informed, cost effective and sustainable resource that supports good mental health at work, reduces stigma and will ultimately increase productivity.

The clinical and cost-effectiveness of Stimulant compared with Non-stimulant medication for adults with Attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder and a history of Psychosis or biPolar disordER: SNAPPER

Cognitive Remediation in Bipolar (CRiB2): a randomised trial assessing efficacy and mechanisms of cognitive remediation therapy compared to treatment as usual.

Randomised controlled trial of the Community Navigator programme to reduce loneliness and depression for adults with treatment resistant depression in secondary mental health services.

The TLC Study

Therapies for Long COVID in non-hospitalised individuals: the TLC Study

Research interests:

  • Bi-polar disorder
  • Depression
  • Mood instability 
  • Early Intervention

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Durdurak, BB, Morales-Munoz, I, Hosang, GM & Marwaha, S 2025, '', European Psychiatry, vol. 68, no. 1, e37.

Chen, Y, Aitken, Z, Hammond, D, Thompson, A, Marwaha, S, Davey, C, Berk, M, McGorry, P, Chanen, A, Nelson, B & Ratheesh, A 2025, '', Psychological Medicine, vol. 55, e147.

Gill, K, Hett, D, Carlish, M, Amos, R, Khatibi, A, Morales-Munoz, I & Marwaha, S 2025, '', British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 2025, pp. 1-8.

Altaweel, N, Upthegrove, R & Marwaha, S 2025, '', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 16, 1454673.

Plappert, H, Byng, R, Reilly, ST, Hobson-Merrett, C, Allard, J, Baker, E, Britten, N, Calvert, M, Clark, M, Creanor, S, Davies, L, Denyer, R, Frost, J, Gask, L, Gibbons, B, Gibson, J, Gill, L, Gwernan-Jones, R, Hosking, J, Huxley, P, Jeffery, A, Jones, B, Keeley, T, Laugharne, R, Marwaha, S, Planner, C, Rawcliffe, T, Retzer, A, Richards, D, Sayers, R, Williams, L, Pinfold, V & Birchwood, M 2024, '', Programme Grants for Applied Research, vol. 12, no. 6, 100.

Durdurak, BB, Williams, B, Zhigalov, A, Moore, A, Mallikarjun, P, Wong, D, Marwaha, S & Morales-Mu帽oz, I 2024, '', Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, vol. 33, e32.

Altaweel, N, Upthegrove, R & Marwaha, S 2024, '', Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 367, pp. 157-163.

Morales-Munoz, I, Marwaha, S, Upthegrove, R & Cropley, V 2024, '', JAMA psychiatry, vol. 81, no. 8, pp. 825-833.

Manitsa, I, Gregory, AM, Broome, MR, Bagshaw, AP, Marwaha, S & Morales鈥怣u帽oz, I 2024, '', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Prudenzi, A, Gill, K, MacArthur, M, Hastings, O, Moukhtarian, T, Jadhakhan, F, Patel, K, Kershaw, C, Norton-Brown, E, Johnston, N, Daly, G, Russell, S, Thomson, L, Munir, F, Blake, H, Meyer, C & Marwaha, S 2024, '', Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, vol. 31, 100720.

Palmer, ER, Morales-Mu帽oz, I, Perry, BI, Marwaha, S, Warwick, E, Rogers, JC & Upthegrove, R 2024, '', JAMA psychiatry.

Comment/debate

Jauhar, S, Arnone, D, Baldwin, DS, Bloomfield, M, Browning, M, Cleare, AJ, Corlett, P, Deakin, JFW, Erritzoe, D, Fu, C, Fusar-Poli, P, Goodwin, GM, Hayes, J, Howard, R, Howes, OD, Juruena, MF, Lam, RW, Lawrie, SM, McAllister-Williams, H, Marwaha, S, Matuskey, D, McCutcheon, RA, Nutt, DJ, Pariante, C, Pillinger, T, Radhakrishnan, R, Rucker, J, Selvaraj, S, Stokes, P, Upthegrove, R, Yalin, N, Yatham, L, Young, AH, Zahn, R & Cowen, PJ 2023, '', Molecular Psychiatry, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 3149-3152.

Review article

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

Bamford, J, Qurashi, I, Axiaq, A, Marwaha, S & Husain, N 2024, '', BMJ open, vol. 14, no. 10, e090290.

Palmier-Claus, J, Golby, R, Stokes, L-J, Saville, CWN, Velemis, K, Varese, F, Marwaha, S, Tyler, E & Taylor, P 2024, '', Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica.