Professor Edward Watkins
Edward Watkins is Professor of Experimental and Applied Clinical Psychology at the School of Psychology, University of Exeter. He is a chartered clinical psychologist specialising in cognitive-behavioural therapy and director of the Mood Disorders Centre at the University of Exeter. His work focuses on the psychological understanding, treatment and prevention of worry, rumination, anxiety, and depression using face-to-face and digital approaches, across the lifespan from adolescence into young adults and beyond. His research has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, UK Medical Research Council, European Commission and US NIMH. He has completed a large-scale Horizon2020 grant on apps for mental health in young people (ECoWeB) and currently leads Nurture-U a large UKRI-funded project to develop and evaluate a stepped change whole university approach to improve student mental health, and Calming Minds, a Wellcome Trust Mental Health award focusing on understanding how digital cognitive-behavioural therapy changes repetitive negative thought.
