Paul Ramchandani  LEGO Professor

Professor Paul Ramchandani

BM PGCert MMedSc MSc DPhil PhD (Inc) MRCPsych

  • Position Governing Body Fellow
  • School Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Personal website PEDAL Hub
  • Department Education
  • Email Pr441@cam.ac.uk
  • Department link Education

Paul Ramchandani is LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning at the University of Cambridge.

Paul Ramchandani  LEGO Professor

Paul also works as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the UK National Health Service and was previously Professor of Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Imperial College London.

He trained as a doctor in Southampton and then in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London and in child and adolescent mental health in Oxford.

Paul's research has focussed on mental health and he has a particular interest in the development of play and the prevention of emotional and behavioural problems in the early years of life.

He directs the PEDAL Research Centre and details of the current work of the PEDAL team at Cambridge, and recent publications, can be found at the PEDAL Hub website.