Mental Health Research
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    • Explainers
  • BUILD YOUR NETWORK
    • BRIDGE Peer Mentoring Programme
    • Career case studies
    • Partnership working in mental health research
    • Addiction and mental health comorbidity research
      • Addiction Special Interest Group
    • Mental Health Research Community Map
  • CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
    • GROW: Researcher Development Programme
    • PeCo: Peer Coaching for Career Development
    • Writing retreat – 10-12 Sept 2025
      • 2026 academic writing retreats
  • 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: Wellcome Trust

Catriona Connell
Addiction research, GROW programme, Post-doctoral
Occupational Therapist to Full Time Researcher
Catriona Connell
Research Fellow
Alex Lloyd
GROW programme, Post-doctoral
From youth work to adolescent research
Alex Lloyd
Psychologist
Verity Westgate
"A successful administrator contributes to research as well as enabling it"
Verity Westgate
Trial Coordinator/Chartered Librarian
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
Professor Louise Howard
“Research leads to other opportunities – for example strategic roles, later in your career”
Professor Louise Howard
Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist
Dr Vishal Bhavsar
“Mental health is tangled up in so many aspects of our society – that’s why it’s so interesting”
Dr Vishal Bhavsar
Psychiatrist
Dr Emma Černis
“Clinically-applicable research is nothing like my undergrad research experiences”
Dr Emma Černis
Clinical Psychologist

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