Jessica Campbell (PhD)

Project Manager - ENERGISE-BD

  • ENERGISE-BD
  • Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research
  • College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Contact details

Address

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Room SU215
Chancellor's Building
49 Little France Crescent, EH16 4SB

City
Edinburgh
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Availability

  • Working Hours: Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

Biography

Background

Dr Jessica Campbell is the Senior Project Manager for ENERGISE-BD, a clinical trial co-led by the University of Edinburgh and University of Birmingham exploring  diet to reduce depression in bipolar disorder. Jess previously worked as the Project Manager for the Hub for Metabolic Psychiatry, one of 6 research hubs constituting the UKRI Mental Health Platform, an initiative seeking to accelerate research into severe mental illness. She also has several years experience coordinating research networks, including Edinburgh Mental Health Interdisciplinary Research Network (EMH) and the Menstruation Research Network UK (MRN).  In addition to her project management role, Jess is historian of medicine specialising in histories of madness, psychiatry and mental health, her most recent work focussing on art, creativity and patient experiences in British psychiatric institutions across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 

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 

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