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Dr Georgina Hosang

Georgina

Reader (Associate Professor) in Mental Illness & Chronic Diseases

Email: g.hosang@qmul.ac.uk
Twitter: @DrHosang

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I am a Reader (Associate Professor) and Research Lead in the Unit for Psychological Medicine at the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health, Wolfson Institute of Population Health. My interdisciplinary work focuses on the impact of life stress (childhood trauma and recent life events) on the onset and course (including physical health outcomes) of severe mental illnesses (mainly bipolar disorder, depression and psychosis) across the lifespan. I am also interested in the developmental pathway from adolescent hypomania to bipolar disorder using twin data. I co-direct with Dr Sania Shakoor the ASSET Research Group which undertakes research focused on life adversity (e.g., childhood maltreatment), mental and physical health across the life course, particularly in underserved communities.

I completed my PhD in Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK and was then awarded the prestigious ESRC/MRC Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship. Between 2012 and 2017 I was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Middlesex University and Goldsmiths, University of London. I have been at Queen Mary University of London, since 2017.

I am the recipient of the Samuel Gershon Junior Investigator Award (2019) from the International Society for Bipolar Disorders and the Gerald L. Klerman Young Investigator Award (2023) from the Depression and Bipolar Disorder Support Alliance (DBSA) both in recognition of my research contribution to the mood disorders field.

I am committed to equality/equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in research and academia more widely, and am the co-chair of Queen Mary, University of London’s Race Equality Action Group and the co-chair of the Women’s Initiative at the International Society of Bipolar Disorders. In 2024 I won the EDI Champion award for the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at Queen Mary, University of London.

 

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