The department aims to integrate teaching, research, and clinical services. Increasingly, therefore, research occurs across the different divisions of the department, including:
- Addiction Psychiatry/Psychology (eg, research on substance abuse)
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Mental Health (eg, research on adolescent risk behaviour)
- Forensic Mental Health (eg, research on violent crime)
- General Adult Psychiatry (eg, research on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder)
- Intellectual Disability Mental Health (eg, research on foetal alcohol syndrome)
- Liaison Psychiatry (eg, research on women's mental health)
- Neuropsychiatry (eg, research on neuroHIV/AIDS)
- Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry (eg, research on interpersonal violence, maternal depression)
- Psychotherapy
- Public Mental Health (eg, research on mental health policy, social determinants of mental health)