In our recent webinar, we convened a panel to discuss how to advance mixed methods in mental health research. In this article, Dr Ola Demkowicz reflects on key themes in the original BMJ paper, the webinar discussion and suggests some calls to action for the field as a whole. Mental health and the systems around…
In today’s MHR Incubator webinar, a mixed panel of experts are gathering to discuss the importance, the challenges and ways forward to progressing mixed methods mental health research. Here Dr Ola Demkowicz, co-author of a recent paper on the topic, sets out some of the key ideas. Mental health and the systems around mental health…
Can you share your perspective? The SUNRISE study team is exploring how research engages with people’s personal direct experiences of mental health problems as a source of insight and understanding. It’s clear that subjective experiences shape how researchers think, feel, and decide what questions to ask. Yet, this work remains undervalued in traditional hierarchies of…
The Mental Health Research (MHR) Incubator is hiring! We’re looking for an enthusiastic and organised individual to help us with the running of our various programmes (including events) and evaluation. The Incubator supports capacity building in applied mental health research through a number of different career development programmes for mental health researchers. These include the…
We are very excited to announce that the Parent Carer Research Network (PCRN) is open to researchers to share their research and PPIE opportunities! The Parent Carer Research Network was set up to champion the voices of parents and carers in children and young people’s mental health research. You may already have plans to involve…
The UK-based network LENS (Lived Experience Network for Scholars) aims to provide a supportive space for academics in the UK with lived experience of mental health and/or addictions. This network has been funded by the NIHR Mental Health Research Incubator, and is run by two Incubator alumni from the GROW programme: Dr Ruth Naughton-Doe (University of…
PeCo is a peer coaching programme – but what is peer coaching? Bea Shelley, a trainee coach, explains… Coaching can be described as an exploratory and practical conversation that supports a ‘thinker’ to do some really good quality thinking on an issue, challenge or goal of their choosing, while the other person in the conversation…
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Applications for the NIHR mentoring programme are open! Are you interested in developing your career? Have you been funded by NIHR? Why not think about applying to be part of the NIHR’s mentoring scheme. Applications are open now. This scheme partners late-PhD and postdoctoral NIHR Academy Members (researchers who’ve received career development awards/fellowships of various…
Have you received NIHR funding for your mental health research project? Consider applying for this! The NIHR have recently announced their first year of Impact Prizes. Up to six Impact Prizes (up to three for research teams or individuals, and up to three for early-career researchers) will be awarded to celebrate researchers and teams whose…
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
by Shivani Joshi, the newest member of the Mental Health Research Incubator Team, who joined the retreat on only her second week! The retreat was ‘…hugely productive, upskilling, confidence-building and a wonderful opportunity to meet a community of like-minded researchers.’ Participant When the train pulled in at Didcot Station, the typical commuters were…
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
We are excited to be launching both our Peer Coaching for Career Development programme (PeCo) and new GROW programme cohort this week! Based on feedback from GROW programme participants, we know that the coaching and network aspects are both particularly valued elements to GROW. However, due to the limited number of places on the GROW…
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
The Society for Academic Primary Care has a number of Special Interest Groups – the Mental Health SIG (“No health without mental health”) is one of the most active. The group aims to bring together researchers working in the field of primary care mental health. During the COVID-19 pandemic virtual SIG meetings were held to…
Are you interested in prevention with a focus on what works? This special interest group, led by Dr. Josefien Breedvelt, a Prudence Trust Research Fellow at King’s College London, aims to bring together individuals from various sectors interested in furthering the discourse on prevention of depression and anxiety in children and young people (both onset…
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Our latest guest blog is by Lizzy Winstone, a senior research associate in epidemiology at The University of Bristol and one of our 2024 GROW cohort members. Lizzy writes here about her plans for her Churchill Fellowship – a non-academic grant scheme that supports UK citizens to travel abroad and bring ideas back to implement…
Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over @MHRIncubator. Here’s what’s coming up on the horizon for mental health research.
Do you need some headspace to write? We at the Mental Health Research Incubator are announcing our first fully-funded writing retreat for mental health and addiction researchers. Specifically aimed at ECRs who have recently completed fellowships or a PhD, the retreat offers headspace, structure, and a tranquil environment in which researchers can make the most…
Bea Shelley
Shivani Joshi
MHR Editor