Richard Emsley holds a joint appointment as Academic Director of the King’s Clinical Trials Unit and Professor of Medical Statistics and Trials Methodology in the Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London. He was an NIHR Research Professor from 2019 to 2025.
He is the Theme Lead for Trials, Genomics and Prediction at the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre and Director of the NIHR Research Support Service Hub delivered by King’s College London and Partners, which has a specific Hub focus on Mental Health & Neuroscience studies. He is the Director of the Innovative Trials Hub in the Data and Digital Alliance Team, as part of the Office for Life Sciences Mental Health Goals Programme.
Before joining the IoPPN in January 2018, Richard held a personal Chair at The University of Manchester as Professor of Medical Statistics and was Deputy Director of the then Manchester Clinical Trials Unit.
Richard studied at The University of Manchester for a BSc in Mathematics and a PhD in Biostatistics under the supervision of Professor Graham Dunn and Professor Andrew Pickles. Following his PhD, he worked as a Research Associate in the Centre for Biostatistics, and was awarded personal fellowships including an MRC Career Development Award in Biostatistics and an MRC Early Career Centenary Award, before being appointed as a Lecturer in 2012, and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015 and Professor in 2016.
