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 everything we’re involved in or have been sent, from lived experience advisory groups to higher education courses and lots more. For example, February’s bulletin promoted…
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 call this expertise from experience and integrate this into our work by: Delivering high-quality, collaborative mental health research and evaluations Helping shape the research of…
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 this resource which promotes cross-disciplinary collaborations in mental health research. The map of mental health research now has over 500 researchers listed from 20 different…
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… “The Research Design Service (RDS) supports researchers to develop applications to the National Institute for Health Research and other national funders of applied health and…
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 health research. Dr Emma Černis and Dr Simon Hackett highlighted that support and direction with PPI was an area that mental health researchers would welcome…
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. We are committed to building mental health research capacity. Sign up to our newsletter on the homepage (big orange square, top right) to keep up…
Nurse and senior research fellow at Leeds Beckett University, Dr Rachael Kelley, got some great chat going in her twitter week with us – good food for thought! Thanks Rachael. Here’s her twitter week to catch up on if you missed it! https://wakelet.com/wake/psxVd-_rrAhLjx2oIw3nA
Psychologist and researcher Dr Emma Černis highlighted her career inspirations did some research career myth-busting in her takeover week with us. Here’s her week to catch up on if you missed it! https://wakelet.com/wake/eb54uyRzTFn6VBvktRCwn
Aspiring nurse researchers can now access a selection of doctoral level theses, all of which have been completed by mental health nurses. The new resource is intended to be a guide to research at a doctoral level. It has been developed by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in collaboration with the RCN Mental Health…
“The number of people presenting with mental health problems to general practice is a worrying growing trend, however, the involvement of GPs in mental health research is an area for hope. Being a practising GP and an active researcher are not as incompatible as one may think – a growing number of GPs are conducting…
Consultant psychiatrist and mental health researcher at the section for women’s mental health at King’s College London took the reins of the @MHRincubator twitter account for one week in June. Here’s what happened on our second #MHRtakeover!
Bea Shelley