What is mental health research? Is it just for medication?

What is mental health research? Is it just for medication?

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...

5 things I learned from the Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health Research Network Summer Showcase

5 things I learned from the Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health Research Network Summer Showcase

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...

The Co-Videos: How the UKRI-funded networks responded to Covid-19

The Co-Videos: How the UKRI-funded networks responded to Covid-19

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,...

Funding advice and tips for early career researchers

Funding advice and tips for early career researchers

We hosted a fantastic online event aimed at ECRs in collaboration with the eight networks, in December 2020. There were two things ECRs wanted from a cross-network event: information on funding and networking. We packed the first event with presentations from four mental health research network representatives and eight MH network plus-fund recipients. The network...