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Work programme 4

Mental health social care

Work programme 4 focuses on social care with those experiencing mental health problems and research evidencing social care delivery to this group. 

Projects

Background

Projects in this programme are looking to investigate and evidence mental health social care.  Mental health social care “empowers people living with mental illness, people experiencing mental distress, their unpaid carers, and local communities. It seeks to enable people to lead fulfilling and independent lives by providing information, advice and offering practical, personalised support with everyday activities. It facilitates agency and the ability to access a life with purpose, meaning and a voice as an active citizen – not just the absence of symptoms. Through working in and with communities, mental health social care helps to develop their capacity to be supportive, resilient and emotionally healthy”

 

Our partners

 

What we are doing

Multiple methods are used across this programme, including, interviews, literature reviews, and examination of existing data. This programme is also supported by the NIHR Mental Health Social Care Incubator which undertakes activities to help people with diverse research, lived and practice experience develop their engagement with mental health social care research and practice. This includes supporting people and groups, such as those from the third sector or in statutory practice, to develop their research ideas.

Our teams

  • Rebecca McPhillips  Principal Investigator/Lead – Research Fellow, Social Care and Society
  • Catherine Robinson  Principal Investigator/Lead – Professor of Social Care Research, Social Care and Society
  • Paul Clarkson Principal Investigator/Lead – Senior Lecturer in Social Care, Social Care and Society

Other work programmes:

The University of Manchester