Rate My Professor Kathryn Greenwood

Kathryn Greenwood is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, with a joint appointment as Clinical Research Fellow and Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. In this role, she leads Psychosis Research, chairs the Psychosis Clinical Academic Group, and serves as Research Lead for the Digital Board. She completed her undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex, holds a BSc and PhD, and earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Greenwood began her research career at the University of Sussex in 2010, continued in an honorary capacity, and returned formally in 2018. She was appointed Professor of Clinical Psychology in 2022. As Director of the Sussex Psychosis Research Interest Group (SPRiG), she organizes a monthly seminar series that convenes clinicians, researchers, students, service users, and carers. She also directs the Sussex Mental Health Research Centre and leads the Starting Well: Children's Mental Health theme at ARC Kent, Surrey & Sussex.

Greenwood's research specializations encompass improving social, functional, and physical health outcomes for people with psychosis, examining cognition and self-beliefs, promoting engagement with evidence-based psychological interventions, and enabling service-user-led evaluations. She has acted as Chief Investigator on studies including the EYE-2 pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial of the Early Youth Engagement intervention in first-episode psychosis services and contributed to the SlowMo randomised controlled trial on psychotherapy for cognitive biases in schizophrenia. Over recent years, she has secured more than £2.2 million in grant income as Chief Investigator and participated as co-applicant on projects worth a further £18 million. Key publications include "A qualitative process evaluation of social recovery therapy for enhancement of social recovery in first-episode psychosis (SUPEREDEN3)" (2022), "Psychotherapy of Biases in Cognition in Schizophrenia: the SlowMo Randomised Controlled Trial for Paranoia, Outcomes and Mechanisms" (2022), "Crisis-focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) in acute mental health inpatient settings (the CRISIS study): protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial" (2022), and "The Early Youth Engagement (EYE-2) intervention in first-episode psychosis services: pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial and cost-effectiveness evaluation" (2025). Her body of 142 publications has received over 4,700 citations, demonstrating substantial impact in the field of clinical psychology and psychosis research.