Stepping into Research 2025
We are excited to invite applications for the second round of the Stepping into Research (STiR) Programme, designed to support practitioners, lived experience researchers, and early career researchers in Mental Health Social Care (MHSC). To get a better idea of what...
New article: Mental health social care: scoping and developing new and necessary health and care research system
In this article, Adam, Catherine, Duncan, and Mike explore mental health social care as an emerging and evolving field of practice and research within the UK’s mental health landscape. They argue for recognising it as a distinct field, highlighting its strengths in...
Upcoming Webinar: 25th June 2025
Webinar: Join us on 25th June 2025, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m Dr Anne Krayer from the Centre for Mental Health and Society at Bangor University will present on “What do we know about the needs of adult survivors of sexual abuse in childhood?” PLUS Dr Sara da Silva Ramos from...
The hidden cost of trauma: maternal mental health and child removal
Katy Cleece is a qualified social worker and currently the Social Work Research Lead for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. She has extensive experience in mental health, with particular interests in trauma and whole-family approaches. Katy has worked...
The CARERS Trial
A feasibility trial of a skills enhancing programme for carers of people with complex emotional needs and chronic emotion dysregulation. New video presentation from Prof Martin Webber, Professor of Social Work, and Karen Bulsara, Lived-Experience Research Fellow, both...
A Model for Co-Production with Communities
This presentation is given by Katy Cleece, Social Worker, and Social Work Research Lead from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS foundation trust, and Parisa Quaynor a peer lived experience researcher. The pair met during the Research Engagement Network (REN) programme...
Upcoming Webinar: 1st May 2025
Webinar: Join us on 1st May, 10:00 – 11:00 am Jess Carlisle from the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics will talk about “Scoping the experiences and needs of carers (friends and family) of people living with suicidal thoughts and feelings...
Upcoming Webinar: 17th March 2025
Upcoming Webinar: Join us on 17th March 2025, 2:00 - 3:00pm Martin Webber and Karen Bulsara from University of York will be presenting on "The CARERS Trial: A feasibility trial of a skills enhancing programme for carers of people with complex emotional needs and...
Social interventions in mental health
New video presentation from Prof Bryn Lloyd-Evans, Professor of Mental Health and Social Inclusion at UCL Psychiatry. "We must not assume that anything new is good. We must do the research to know that interventions are doing more good than harm." On 3rd Oct 2024 we...
Social Media Training Led by the Mental Elf
Are you looking to up your social media game? Join the Mental Elf for a 2-hour interactive workshop on science communication and research dissemination. The workshop will be held on 11 December 2024, 10am-12pm. You will learn from the experts in mental health social...
