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Dr Clare Tweedy

Dr Clare Tweedy

  • Position: Programme Leader (Neuroscience)
  • Areas of expertise: Neurobiology; neurodegeneration; ageing; psychiatric disorders; neuropharmacology; behaviour; mitochondrial dysfunction
  • Email: C.Tweedy@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: 6.84 Manton
  • Website: Researchgate | ORCID

Profile

I achieved a PhD in Neuroscience from Newcastle, where I explored hippocampal network dysfunction in models of alpha-synucleinopathy. I then moved to Leeds in 2018 to work as a Research Fellow in Neuroscience, exploring changes in cognition and anxiety with ageing. I now lead the BSc Neuroscience programme and its variants, along with teaching on undergraduate modules in Neuroscience.

Areas for student projects

I offer a range of non-laboratory based Capstone projects on topics ranging from dementia to depression. I have a broad interest in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders.

Some of my current areas of interest include:

  • The use of psychedelics to treat psychiatric and neurological disorders
  • Excitatory/inhibitory network imbalance in psychiatric and neurological disorders
  • Mitochondrial dysfunction in psychiatric and neurological disorders

Scholarship and education research

My pedagogical interests include active learning in large-class settings and creating a Neuroscience community through sense of belonging work.

Awards and commendations

  • Faculty Partnership Award: Special Recognition (2025)
  • Faculty Partnership Award for Teacher/Supervisor of the Year (2024)
  • Faculty Partnership Award for Inspirational Teaching (2023)
    • Short-listed for University-level Award for Inspirational Teaching (2023)
  • School Partnership Award for Inspirational Teaching (2022)

Responsibilities

  • Programme Leader (Neuroscience)
  • Module Manager
  • Co-Lead of the LITE Active and Experiential Learning Incubator

Qualifications

  • PhD Neuroscience, Newcastle University (2019)
  • MRes Neuroscience, Distinction, Newcastle University (2014)
  • PGCAP, Distinction, University of Leeds (2023)
  • BSc Biomedical Sciences, First, Newcastle University (2013)

Professional memberships

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2023)
  • British Neuroscience Association (2016 - present)
  • Physiological Society (2019 - present)

Research groups and institutes

  • Neuroscience and Behaviour
  • Biomedical Education