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Communications coordinator for the Mental Health Research Incubator and the Emerging Minds Network.
#MHRawards – what our judges had to say
The patient and public members of our judging panels were so impressed by the standard of entries for the MHR Incubator Awards. Here we’re delighted to share some of their comments on our award winners.
Collaborative involvement prize: Dr Dean Connolly and Rethinking Education SIRG
Judges awarded top prizes to Dr Dean Connolly and the ‘Rethinking Education: lessons from lockdown’ Special Interest Research Group for the Collaborative Involvement of patients and public prize. In a…
Building research in underserved areas: Dr Rebecca Anthony
The award-winning work focuses attention on the experiences of people whose particular circumstances and needs are less well captured in the mainstream of mental health research. The neglected yet important areas our winners are addressing includes mental health in adoptive families, people with severe intellectual impairments, experiences in racialised groups.
Innovation prize: Dr Lucy Livingston and Dr Ben Perry
Judges awarded the Innovation prize to two researchers who are tackling two very different areas of mental health research in new and original ways. Dr Lucy Livingston researches the understudied…
Early impact prize: Dr Kimberley Kendall and the ‘Bold’ project
Congratulations go to Dr Kimberley Kendall for her work in understanding depression and schizophrenia, and the ‘Bold’ project team, whose work is positively impacting the wellbeing of people who are living with dementia.
NIHR webinar: How to apply public involvement effectively to your research application
This 75-minute webinar is aimed at researchers applying for NIHR Fellowship Awards and staff accountable for public involvement. The webinar will cover: • NIHR’s definition of public involvement • UK…
GROW: Researcher Development Programme
The application window for the summer 2022 cohort of the GROW programme has now closed. Applicants will be contacted about the outcome of their application in the coming weeks. GROW…
Wellcome funding for mental health – May and early June deadlines
Wellcome has released new mental health research funding opportunities. They are funding a broad range of research to understand how anxiety, depression and psychosis develop and how they resolve.
MQ Fellows Award 2022 – 29 April deadline
Applications are now open. Who can apply: Early-career researchers Funding period: 3 years Funding amount: up to £225,000 Research area: Premature mortality, namely suicide and comorbidities Application deadline: 29th April. This MQ Fellows Award will have the theme “Gone…
Newsletter – spring 2022
View the spring 2022 MHR Incubator news online. You can sign up to the newsletter via the link in the orange box at the top right corner of our homepage.
NIHR SPHR Public Mental Health Network
The NIHR SPHR Public Mental Health Network aims to bring together researchers, public health professionals and members of the public to share research findings and provide opportunities to work together…
Roles at Mental Health Implementation Network
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) ARC Mental Health Implementation Network (MHIN) is a collaboration of service users, local communities, health and care providers, commissioners and a range of regional and national stakeholders, including charities and local government.
Twitter takeover: Joy Llewellyn-Beardesley
In her week at the helm of the MHR Incubator account, Joy championed mental health researchers like her who are open about their lived experience. She offers some really great…
Internship opportunities at ARC Oxford and Thames Valley – 29 April deadline
Curious about research and the difference it could make to the people you work with? Up to £20,000 is available to help as part of an NIHR ARC OxTV research…
Get involvement opportunities straight to your inbox!
The McPin Involvement Bulletin is packed full of exciting opportunities to get involved and participate in mental health research. With a focus on lived experience, the (roughly) monthly round-up includes…
Presentations viewable online – NIHR Academy Doctoral Academy Training Camp
Presentations from last September’s NIHR Academy Doctoral Training Camp have now been made more widely available, sharing useful tips for all those preparing research funding applications. Sessions include: • Lessons…
McPin Foundation
We are a mental health research charity that believes research is done best when it involves people with relevant personal experience that relates to the research being carried out. We…
DATAMIND survey on training for mental health datascience
DATAMIND works to make the best use of the UK’s rich health records and datasets for mental health research. As part of this work, we are providing training and career…
Social media training from The Mental Elf
Practical training in digital public engagement & research dissemination skills for anyone interested in communicating mental health science. This is an online social media training day with The Mental Elf…
Webinar – 10 Feb from Oxford AHSN
Free webinar from Oxford Academic Health Science Network exploring how patients and health/care professionals can best work together. Hear from patients, relatives and professionals with experience of children & young…
Funding for child and adolescent mental health from Kavli Trust
The Norwegian Kavli Trust Programme on Health Research will be awarding a total of NOK 20 million (£1.6million) to collaborative research projects addressing selected evidence gaps in child and adolescent…
Chief Nursing Officer for England’s strategic plan for research
The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England’s strategic plan for research is for all
nurses working in health and social care, whether they are already or thinking about
getting involved in research, colleagues in academia and the third sector and all those
who support research. It has been developed in partnership with stakeholders across
the health and care system including the Innovation, Research and Life Sciences Group
within NHS England and NHS Improvement specifically to ensure alignment across the
organisation.
PhD programme in mental health research for health professionals
Applications are now open for a new PhD Programme in Mental Health Research for Health Professionals. The programme will be based at King’s College London and funded by the Wellcome…
Charity funders of mental health research
Where can I find out about potential charity funding for my study? If you aren’t a well-established researcher, it can be very difficult to know where to start. Even if you are, mental health remains an underfunded area with far fewer charities with either open or themed calls compared to other health conditions. But there are starting points.
500 researchers on the #MHRmap – and counting!
There are now over 500 researchers on our map of mental health research, including research-active clinicians, lived experience experts, and mental health academics. It’s great to see broad-based support for…
Social care research funding – deadline 24 Nov
NIHR Programme Development Grants (PDG) invites proposals to address the challenges within adult social care and aim to improve the evidence base for adult social care. We are particularly interested in…
NIHR Programme Development Grants – next deadline 24 Nov 2021
The Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) Competition 37 is now open for applications for research proposals to develop individual programmes of applied health research. The application deadline is 24…
UKRI funding for adolescent mental health and wellbeing research – 1 Dec deadline
Fantastic UKRI funding opportunity for mental health researchers at any career stage: Apply for funding to help improve research in the field of ‘adolescence, mental health and the developing mind’…
Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) grants from NIHR
Research for Patient Benefit grants are great options for early and mid-career researchers who are looking for smaller pots of funding to consider. A real strength of the programme is the…
ECR hub brings together resources from UKRI mental health networks
The Mental Health Research Matters team has launched a new section of their website dedicated to supporting Early Career Researchers. The new ECR hub brings together resources which have been…
Newsletter – autumn 2021
View the summer 2021 MHR Incubator news online. You can sign up to the newsletter via the link in the orange box at the top right corner of our homepage.
What is the Research Design Service?
What is the Research Design Service (RDS)? We asked that question to Louise Halbert, Business Manager at the NIHR Research Design Service (or RDS for short 🙂 ) She said……
Interview: Dept of Health and Social Care CSO on mental health research in the UK
In a wide-ranging discussion, Professors Lucy Chappell and Cathy Creswell discuss the rationale behind the launch of a number of new NIHR funding schemes for mental health research that have…
CATCH – the Clinical Academic Careers Training Hub
A new website promoting the value clinical academic careers is a useful resource for clinicians with interests in mental health research CATCH, the Clinical Academic Training & Careers Hub, aims…
New video series on PPI in mental health research – thanks to Incubator Advisory Group members
Members of the Mental Health Research Incubator Advisory Group were behind the brand-new video series in which researchers and experienced public contributors discuss patient and public involvement (PPI) in mental…
SBRI Healthcare – Mental Health Inequalities in Children and Young People, 13 Oct deadline
Funded by NHS England and NHS Improvement in collaboration with the AHSN Network, SBRI Healthcare announces a Phase 3 funding competition open to innovations in an advanced stage of development….
Mental Health Practice Evaluation Scheme – EOI deadline 8 October 2021
The NIHR Schools for Primary Care Research (SPCR), Public Health Research (SPHR) and Social Care Research (SSCR) have launched a new programme to address the challenges faced by front line…
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The Mental Health Research Incubator is a broad-based community of mental health researchers at all career stages, mental health professionals, lived experience experts and public contributors to mental health research….