**THIS OPPORTUNITY IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR APPLICATIONS* Does mental health research matter to you? We’re recruiting people with a passion for research to join and help shape an exciting conversation about research and mental health in autumn 2022. You’ll use your personal or professional experience and expertise to let key audiences know...
A huge part of growing as a mental health researcher is learning from other people’s experiences and skills. That’s why the Mental Health Research Incubator has created a mental health research map for building collaborations. The map of mental health research is becoming a key practical resource. It makes it easy for research-active clinicians, lived...
The Round-up – February Let’s get stuck into another Round-up – catching you up on all of the latest news from the UKRI-funded mental health networks. News An important but often overlooked health struggle for people with severe mental illness is oral health. That’s why the oral health special interest group in Closing the Gap...
It’s time for another Round-up. We’re bringing you the latest news, highlights and events from across the eight UKRI-funded mental health research networks. After a brief pause in December, we’re catching you up on the networks’ latest activities. This month, we’re celebrating awards and numerous publications, not to mention the usual selection of top-notch blogs...
November is hurtling past at a startling rate! We’re already in the slippery descent to cheesy Christmas adverts and near-constant Mariah Carey on the radio. Let’s find out what UKRI-funded mental health networks have been up to this month. From events, blogs and YouTube series to research papers, there’s a lot to catch up on....
With COP26 in full swing and the world focusing on climate change, we wanted to talk about the impact air pollution has on mental health. We know that air pollution has a significant effect on our physical health. But there’s also a growing body of research connecting exposure to air pollution to mental illness. We...
After a brief pause in September, it’s time for another round-up. If we haven’t crossed paths yet – nice to meet you, I’m Daisy. JJ has started his Masters and passed the network coordination communications baton to me. It’s been fascinating learning more about the work of the networks and the incredible projects that you...
To support the plus-fund teams, we compiled resources tailored to the potential needs of their projects. Most of these projects centre on: developing guidelines running focus groups developing resources, and pilot studies. Therefore, we focused on resources to support anyone interested in making their own projects more open and reproducible, but may not have had...
Rounding off our ECR Series with a bang – with our Ask the Experts Roundtable. For the roundtable discussion, we were joined by senior researcher representatives from each of the Mental Health Networks. ECRs joined salon-style sessions with two of these impressive researchers where they could ask their burning questions about all things research, academia,...
Wrapping up our Open Science presentations was Katie Drax. Katie rounded off our talks with a summary of her qualitative research into funding partnerships for registered reports. Her talk was a powerful example of how transferable “open science” practices can be to qualitative research – this would be particularly relevant to the plus-fund projects. Katie...