Mental Health Research
  • NEWS & OPPORTUNITIES
    • Opportunities Update
    • Funding calls
    • Seed Fund 2025
  • BUILD YOUR NETWORK
    • BRIDGE Peer Mentoring Programme
    • Career case studies
    • Partnership working in mental health research
    • Addiction and mental health comorbidity research
      • Researcher placement for ECRs at Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust
      • Addiction Special Interest Group
    • Mental Health Research Community Map
  • CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
    • GROW: Researcher Development Programme
    • Fellowship Planning Retreat 2026
    • Peer Coaching (PeCo) 2026
    • 2026 Programmes
  • CAREER ADVICE
    • For postdocs
    • Funding mental health research
    • Advice for your professional background
      • Advice for lived experience researchers
      • Advice for psychologists
      • Advice for social workers
      • Advice for medics
      • Advice for allied health professionals
      • Advice for nurses
      • Advice for basic scientists
      • Advice for pharmacists
      • Advice for behavioural scientists
    • Take the next step
      • First steps in research
      • Start publishing
      • Join a research project
      • Set up your own research project
      • Fellowships in mental health research
      • Do further training
      • Find a mentor
      • Patient and public involvement in mental health research
    • Jargon buster
  • ABOUT
    • Get involved
    • Meet the team
    • Why research
    • DHSC mental health research goals

Funding: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Catriona Connell
Addiction research, GROW programme, Post-doctoral
Occupational Therapist to Full Time Researcher
Catriona Connell
Research Fellow
Dr Blandine French
"My lived experience allows me to have deeper and more relatable collaborations"
Dr Blandine French
Psychology/ Lived experience
Dr Stella Chan
“I couldn’t wait to start my research career as I simply love the process of thinking”
Dr Stella Chan
Academic Clinical Psychologist
Dr Ruth McGovern
Addiction research
“Developing research agency and independence”
Dr Ruth McGovern
Social worker
Dr Amy O’Donnell
Addiction research
“I come at mental health research with a public policy hat”
Dr Amy O’Donnell
Health services researcher
Professor Roshan das Nair
“My earliest work experience in India was the driver for my research today”
Professor Roshan das Nair
Clinical Psychologist
Professor Martin Webber
“I beat my own path towards research”
Professor Martin Webber
Social worker

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