Jessica Campbell (PhD)
Project Manager - Hub for Metabolic Psychiatry

- Hub for Metabolic Psychiatry
- Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
- Email: jessica.campbell@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room SU215
Chancellor's Building
49 Little France Crescent, EH16 4SB - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
Availability
Working Hours: Monday to Friday 9am-5pm
Background
Dr Jessica Campbell is a historian of medicine specialising in histories of madness, psychiatry and mental health. Jessica joined the Division of Psychiatry in 2023 as Network Coordinator for Edinburgh Mental Health, an interdisciplinary research network based at the University. She now works as Project Manager for the Hub for Metabolic Psychiatry, one of 5 new research hubs constituting the UKRI Mental Health Platform, an initiative seeking to accelerate research into severe mental illness.
Research summary
Histories of madness, psychiatry and mental health c.1800-present day, with a focus on the arts and patient experiences.
Campbell, J. & Davis, G., (2022) “‘A Crisis of Transition’: Menstruation and the Psychiatrisation of the Female Lifecycle in 19th-Century Edinburgh”, Open Library of Humanities 8(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.6350
Mudra Rakshasa-Loots, A., Campbell, J., Campbell, I.H. et al. Metabolic Psychiatry: Key Priorities for an Emerging Field’, Nature Mental Health (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-025-00445-z
Ford, A., Campbell J. and Marwick, K. ‘The Medicalisation of Menstruation: A Double-Edged Sword’, [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]. Wellcome Open Res 2025, 10:204 https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.24017.1