Dr Fiona Riddoch is the co-founder of Words That Carry On, a mental health research fund in memory of her daughter Lindsay. Lindsay was passionate about the importance of lived experience in better understanding mental health. As a researcher within the field of renewable energy, Fiona understands the transformative power of research. Words That Carry...
Robert Westhead, Head of Media and Staff Communications at Oxford Health NHS Foundation, writes about bipolar disorder, emerging from the ‘upside down’ and how we’re just beginning to grasp the workings of the human brain. CW: Suicide Why does mental health research matter? The very question seems to suggest it might not matter. But reality...
If you work as a mental health clinician, keeping up to date with the latest research can improve your practice, for better mental health outcomes for the people you support. However, with so much information out there, it can feel hard to stay on top of things. Elizabeth James is a clinician who supports NHS...
What is mental health research? Before we get cracking, let me introduce myself. I’m Daisy, and I am the communications coordinator of the Mental Health Research Matters team. Before I started working for mental health organisations, I hadn’t thought about mental health in terms of research before. But advancements in any area take research and...
As part of our online conversation #MentalHealthResearchMatters, we spoke to Yasmin about anti-racist mental health research. Yasmin is part of the Student team at SMarTeN network and a member of the Mental Health Research Matters Steering Group. She is a lived-experience researcher and passionate advocate for student wellbeing and the role of anti-racism in research...
The team behind the Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health Research Network (LSIMHRN) recently held their Summer Showcase event during Loneliness Awareness Week. The summer showcase celebrated everything the network achieved in the past four years and was a call for the next steps in tackling loneliness, social isolation and the impact they have...
Over the past few months, the Mental Health Research Matters team spoke with representatives across the UKRI-funded mental health networks about the Covid-19 pandemic. The result? a video series called Co-videos. The Co-videos explore how the networks responded to the pandemic, and their successes along the way. UKRI funded the mental health networks in 2018,...
The round-up is your monthly catch up with the UKRI-funded mental health research networks. Here you’ll learn the latest news from the networks, hear about career-developing events, opportunities to take part in research and more. As usual, April has been a busy month for the networks, but before we get started on that, we wanted...
The mental health research matters team spoke to Philippa Hemmings, Head of Healthcare technologies at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. We wanted to find out more about why they want to fund more mental health research, interdisciplinary research and the role of engineering and physical sciences in mental health research. Catch the podcast...
What role can mathematics play in better understanding mental health? We spoke to Professor Terry Lyons, a mathematician whose area of expertise has application in understanding complex data real-world data from multiple sources. He is the principal investigator at DataSig, and part of their work uses mathematics to better understand mental health. This is a...