User:PaulWicks

About me
Hello! My name's Paul Wicks and I'm a postdoc in Parkinson's disease at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.

I completed my PhD in 2005 looking at cognitive change in motor neurone disease, a particularly nasty neurodegenerative movement disorder. During this time I was chair of the IOP's "student forum" for a year which involved representing the interests of our ~400 PhD students. I was involved in organising monthly social events as well as one-off events, campaigning for student rights, training students and supervisors in how to work together, and helping out in advocacy cases.

I also am a bit involved with the UK GRAD programme. I went on one of their "GRAD schools" in the 2nd year of my PhD and loved it. In 2005 I went on their "mentor" course, and in 2006 I became a tutor so I can help run local and national GRAD schools. I am also editor of a new publication for PhD students throughout the UK called "GRAD Britain", a national version of another magazine I developed called LonDoc which was just for students within the M25.

I'm the postdoctoral representative on the research board of the British Psychological Society and along with other members of a working group am responsible for setting up a nation-wide postdoc group within the BPS.

In my spare time I like beer.