Mental Health Research
  • NEWS & OPPORTUNITIES
    • Opportunities Update
    • Funding calls
    • 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

Take the next step

Take the next step

Are you interested in doing more research in your professional role? On this page we highlight practical next steps you could take to make mental health research a bigger part of your career.

Early career

First steps →
Start publishing →
Join a research project →
Do further training →
Set up your own research project →
Funding sources →
Find a mentor →

Establishing independence

Build your network →
Fellowships →
Connect and collaborate →
Join the Mental Health Research Community Map →
GROW Researcher Development Programme→

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