Vishal is a psychiatrist with an MSc in research methods. He is currently a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellow in Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. He is also Module Co-Leader of the Research Methods Ethics and Statistics part of the MSc in Psychiatric Research. His PhD research is on the role of violent victimisation in both childhood and adulthood on being diagnosed with psychotic illness, and whether it is affected by the kind of neighbourhood you live in.