by Professor Adrian Harwood and Professor Louise Dye Once the territory of psychology and psychiatry alone, it is now widely accepted that much more holistic approaches are required to understand the nature of mental health and its associated problems. Biology underpins the functioning of the human body and, whilst often overlooked, is also an integral part…
Exploring interdisciplinary stories and novel approaches – from both inside and outside of the networks – is central to what the #MentalHealthResearchMatters team is doing. So when I heard about a MARCH network Plus Fund project looking at archaeology and mental health, my interest was piqued – what is the connection between archaeology and mental health? A…
Open science is a topic for all researchers, but can have a particular impact for mental health researchers. It can seem like a bit of a buzz word that is increasingly used. But what does it mean and what practices should you follow as a mental health researcher? When it comes to the mental health…
What role can mathematics play in better understanding mental health? We spoke to Professor Terry Lyons, a mathematician whose area of expertise has application in understanding complex data real-world data from multiple sources. He is the principal investigator at DataSig, and part of their work uses mathematics to better understand mental health. This is a transcript…
How can sensors in our home help us better understand physical and mental health conditions? As part of our Mental Health Research Matters Interdisciplinary research series, we were joined by Dr Amid Ayobi and Dr Aisling Ann O’Kane from the EPSRC-funded SPHERE project, to find out more about human-computer interaction. They are just two of around…
For this blog, Dr Jess Bone spoke with researchers Rosie Dow, Dr Alex Burton, and Dr Karen Mak from the MARCH Network to get their top tips on collaborative research with community partners. If you’re a mental health researcher looking to make the most of community partnerships, then you won’t want to miss this. The MARCH Network (2018-2021) explored…
Dr Sarah Knowles, Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellow at the University of York, and Gordon Johnston, peer researcher and Closing the Gap steering committee member, and Mental Health Research Matters steering group member write about the many benefits of multidisciplinary approaches to mental health research “Working across disciplinary and professional boundaries encourages researchers to think bigger about their projects –…
Promoting a collaborative approach to research is at the heart of the Mental Health Research Matters campaign, with the eight research networks bringing together people from the technology, health, medicine, humanities and environmental science fields. We spoke to Masuma Mishu, who is a researcher and lecturer in public health and previously worked as a clinical dentist, about…
Professor Kamaldeep Bhui, from the University of Oxford, is one of the leads of the MARCH network’s Special Interest Research Group (SIRG) Interdisciplinary Research Methods. His research priorities include multimorbidity, ethnicity, health inequalities, complex interventions. I had a chat with Professor Bhui to pick his brain about the merits of interdisciplinary research, the challenges that…
If you work as a mental health clinician, keeping up to date with the latest research can improve your practice, for better mental health outcomes for the people you support. However, with so much information out there, it can feel hard to stay on top of things. Elizabeth James is a clinician who supports NHS…
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