By Mark McLaughlin

A brilliant clinical psychologist who died suddenly at the age of 27 is being laid to rest in Dundee today.

Sujata Bose, originally from Broughty Ferry, collapsed in the street just 50 yards from her family home last week.

Family members, neighbours and ambulance crews from Ninewells Hospital rushed to her aid but, tragically, nothing could be done to save her.

A post-mortem examination showed she died from a pulmonary thromboembolism —a lethal blockage of the lung that is rare in someone so young.

Sujata attended Forthill Primary and the High School of Dundee, where she was a frequent dux scholar.

She obtained a first class degree and a department medal from Dundee University, and gained her doctorate from Edinburgh University last January.

She had just begun working as a child and adolescent mental health worker at the Worcester Specialist Children Services Pear Tree Centre in Reddich.

She was in Dundee for her brother’s graduation from Dundee University last week.

“She was more excited about it than I was,” said Amit.

“She had been going on about it for months and she was really, really happy to see me get my degree in sports biomedicine.

“She was just brilliant—she left a lasting impression on everyone she met.

“Everyone commented on her smile and her cheery nature.

“She worked extremely hard, but she never put it before her family and friends.”

Her mother Shukla said, “She gave a large percentage of her salary to three charities—Oxfam, Friends of the Earth and Helping Hands—and sponsored a child in India.

“She also cared a great deal about the environment, continually recycling things, buying fair trade and organic foods and encouraging others to do the same.

“Even at school she spent her time volunteering at charity shops and school charity campaigns.”

Sujata continued her environmental work when she moved to England, working at the Canalside Community Farm in Leamington Spa, where she grew her own vegetables.

Tributes have been arriving from everyone who knew her, including her manager at the Pear Tree Centre, Alastair Barnett, who praised her for her “curiosity, sensitivity and strong intellect.”

He added, “She brought to the team a willingness to take projects forward, a quality I find to be rare amongst clinicians relatively recently qualified.

“She was prepared to take responsibility for areas of work and quickly built up trust with work colleagues.”