Angharad is an Adult Psychiatry Specialist Registrar and Wellcome Trust Clinical Doctoral Fellow in the Psychopharmacology and Emotion Research Laboratory based at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Her work explores the interaction between mood, well-being and self-harm, pharmacology, and neurocognitive factors. For her PhD, she is investigating specific serotonin receptor agonists and whether new agents may have antidepressant and pro-cognitive effects in humans. She is also a Specialist Registrar in Adult Psychiatry at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Angharad de Cates explores a recent RCT of a brief psychological intervention to reduce repetition of self-harm in patients admitted to hospital following a suicide attempt.
Angharad de Cates, Alys Cole-King and Stan Kutcher explore a quasi-experimental examination of internet search results, which suggests that the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why has both increased suicide awareness while unintentionally increasing suicidal ideation.