Why Mental Health Research Matters: Co-ordinating an Impact and Engagement Programme for UKRI funded Mental Health Networks
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Experimental Psychology
Abstract
This application to carry out the role of Mental Health Networks Coordinator for eight mental health networks funded by UKRI was led by Professor Elaine Fox until January 2022, and the final phase of work is being led by Professor Cathy Creswell. Cathy is leading a facilitation team to deliver a national mental health research campaign called "Why Mental Health Research Matters".
This proposal was designed to maximise the potential within the existing mental health networks and add value to them through 40 months of coordination and facilitation activities, by collating outputs produced by the networks, helping them to work together to produce new content around themes chosen to maximise messages about the importance of mental health research, and highlighting their latest research findings. Our accessible website helps increase the impact of the networks.
The proposal had six core objectives.
1. To understand the potential within the existing networks to achieve a step-change in cross-disciplinary mental health research and identify potential gaps, making plans to address these by widening membership and interest further.
2. To work closely with UKRI to maximise the potential from all mental health research funders within their portfolios, learning from their policy teams on how to influence government and act as a point of contact to maximise the impact of the current funding.
3. To facilitate the cross-pollination of ideas between networks and make plans for joint activities and outputs.
4. To encourage co-production within the networks and create linkages between members, particularly emphasising lived experience expertise to create new research proposals, and document this journey as part of the impact story.
5. To work with early career researchers to develop a vibrant community of researchers working in mental health research, and develop areas of science that particularly matter to this group including open science.
6. To build and deliver a national campaign called "Why Mental Health Research Matters" using social media as well as podcasts, webinars, short films and infographics.
This is an ambitious programme with UK-wide coverage. We want to ensure that all parts of the UK can contribute and that many areas: biotechnology, social science, arts, humanities, engineering, cultural studies, medical and health sciences, & environmental science can become involved. communications co-oordinator who has lived experience of mental health issues - will work four days a week alongside the project lead.
An important role of this digital communications coordinator will be to prioritise the creation of broad cross-disciplinary conversations across all of the networks. These two posts Project lead and a communications co-ordinator will bring professorial experience together with lived experience expertise. They have been supported by an excellent team including Dr Sam Parsons (whose role finished in October 2021), an early-career psychology researcher at Oxford who is an expert in improving research and science practice (e.g., Open Science approaches).
In addition, we have a team of communications and mental health experts including Dr Vanessa Pinfold who is a co-founder of The McPin Foundation and a leader in ensuring patient involvement in mental health research; Andre Tomlin founder of The Mental Elf, which is a leading social media platform on mental health. The focus will be entirely on impact and public engagement, seeking to add value and enhance the value of the networks that were established in 2018.
This proposal was designed to maximise the potential within the existing mental health networks and add value to them through 40 months of coordination and facilitation activities, by collating outputs produced by the networks, helping them to work together to produce new content around themes chosen to maximise messages about the importance of mental health research, and highlighting their latest research findings. Our accessible website helps increase the impact of the networks.
The proposal had six core objectives.
1. To understand the potential within the existing networks to achieve a step-change in cross-disciplinary mental health research and identify potential gaps, making plans to address these by widening membership and interest further.
2. To work closely with UKRI to maximise the potential from all mental health research funders within their portfolios, learning from their policy teams on how to influence government and act as a point of contact to maximise the impact of the current funding.
3. To facilitate the cross-pollination of ideas between networks and make plans for joint activities and outputs.
4. To encourage co-production within the networks and create linkages between members, particularly emphasising lived experience expertise to create new research proposals, and document this journey as part of the impact story.
5. To work with early career researchers to develop a vibrant community of researchers working in mental health research, and develop areas of science that particularly matter to this group including open science.
6. To build and deliver a national campaign called "Why Mental Health Research Matters" using social media as well as podcasts, webinars, short films and infographics.
This is an ambitious programme with UK-wide coverage. We want to ensure that all parts of the UK can contribute and that many areas: biotechnology, social science, arts, humanities, engineering, cultural studies, medical and health sciences, & environmental science can become involved. communications co-oordinator who has lived experience of mental health issues - will work four days a week alongside the project lead.
An important role of this digital communications coordinator will be to prioritise the creation of broad cross-disciplinary conversations across all of the networks. These two posts Project lead and a communications co-ordinator will bring professorial experience together with lived experience expertise. They have been supported by an excellent team including Dr Sam Parsons (whose role finished in October 2021), an early-career psychology researcher at Oxford who is an expert in improving research and science practice (e.g., Open Science approaches).
In addition, we have a team of communications and mental health experts including Dr Vanessa Pinfold who is a co-founder of The McPin Foundation and a leader in ensuring patient involvement in mental health research; Andre Tomlin founder of The Mental Elf, which is a leading social media platform on mental health. The focus will be entirely on impact and public engagement, seeking to add value and enhance the value of the networks that were established in 2018.
Planned Impact
Who will benefit from this research?
A "Why mental health research matters" campaign will present research ideas and outputs generated by the networks as well as producing some new content from inter-network activities. This will engage:
- All network partners and members from across the eight UKRI mental health networks;
- All researchers with a grant from UKRI with a mental health related focus and other academics working across the UK with an interest in mental health;
- Networks and other organisations both in the traditional mental health sector as well as outside to reach a broad range of stakeholders;
- The public, practitioners, family members and carers, mental health service users and other lived experience experts
- Funders of mental health research in the UK.
The campaign will encourage people to take part in mental health research, provide a forum where people can learn from each other, provide a platform for seldom heard voices, and create a narrative on how mental health research is relevant and useful in people's lives. Benefits will also be derived from programme content encouraging further networking and collaborations across and beyond the networks for new research grants. Creating 'energy' around mental health research and providing a stronger narrative on why it is relevant to people's lives (be they practitioners, scientists, service users, potential funders, film makers, journalists, community activists, or policy makers) is important. We aim to engage the Wellcome Trust, Recovery Research Network Alliance members (e.g. NSUN, MQ, MHF, NSPCC, Centre for Mental Health, Mind, Samaritans) as well as networks beyond the sector in our campaign on Why Mental Health Research Matters.
How will they benefit from this research?
A national campaign will elevate the status of mental health research and will:
- Inspire hope and engagement - raising awareness among researchers that careers in mental health research are worthwhile and valuable, rewarding, sustainable, and
socially important.
- Increase understanding that mental health research can lead to real progress in reducing suffering and help to build capacity in the field of mental health research.
- Share expertise and learning - by co-producing work within networks, between networks, with peers as well as with others, skills will be shared to create more
expertise for a cross-disciplinary and vibrant principle-driven mental health science.
What will be done to ensure that potential beneficiaries benefit from this role?
Emphasis in the first 6 months will be on learning from others, having conversations and meetings with the networks and their partners to scope potential and to identify gaps in current plans. The Networks Co-ordinator (Elaine Fox) and the Peer Researcher will travel extensively to all networks and/or associated meetings/events in order to gather material. They will host several meetings during this period with the rest of the leadership team (McPin Foundation, Mental Elf, Sixth Sense Media, Sam Parsons) to develop a clear plan of action. We will organize several other activities to build the campaign including a scoping survey, three network meetings, regular meetings with UKRI, and several on-line webinars and events. The campaign will include:
- A launch event within the first 3 months co-produced with the eight networks.
- Mini-events and activities across the country co-produced with the networks by anyone who wants to take part, guided by a "how to" toolkit.
- Social media activities to amplify messages and sustain conversations. Webinars linked to social media coverage.
- A 'why research matters to me' on-line resource with content provided by the public, academics, voluntary sector, NHS, industry, policy makers etc.
- A website with content provided from the networks - including short films, blogs from different stakeholders and lay summaries of new research findings.
A "Why mental health research matters" campaign will present research ideas and outputs generated by the networks as well as producing some new content from inter-network activities. This will engage:
- All network partners and members from across the eight UKRI mental health networks;
- All researchers with a grant from UKRI with a mental health related focus and other academics working across the UK with an interest in mental health;
- Networks and other organisations both in the traditional mental health sector as well as outside to reach a broad range of stakeholders;
- The public, practitioners, family members and carers, mental health service users and other lived experience experts
- Funders of mental health research in the UK.
The campaign will encourage people to take part in mental health research, provide a forum where people can learn from each other, provide a platform for seldom heard voices, and create a narrative on how mental health research is relevant and useful in people's lives. Benefits will also be derived from programme content encouraging further networking and collaborations across and beyond the networks for new research grants. Creating 'energy' around mental health research and providing a stronger narrative on why it is relevant to people's lives (be they practitioners, scientists, service users, potential funders, film makers, journalists, community activists, or policy makers) is important. We aim to engage the Wellcome Trust, Recovery Research Network Alliance members (e.g. NSUN, MQ, MHF, NSPCC, Centre for Mental Health, Mind, Samaritans) as well as networks beyond the sector in our campaign on Why Mental Health Research Matters.
How will they benefit from this research?
A national campaign will elevate the status of mental health research and will:
- Inspire hope and engagement - raising awareness among researchers that careers in mental health research are worthwhile and valuable, rewarding, sustainable, and
socially important.
- Increase understanding that mental health research can lead to real progress in reducing suffering and help to build capacity in the field of mental health research.
- Share expertise and learning - by co-producing work within networks, between networks, with peers as well as with others, skills will be shared to create more
expertise for a cross-disciplinary and vibrant principle-driven mental health science.
What will be done to ensure that potential beneficiaries benefit from this role?
Emphasis in the first 6 months will be on learning from others, having conversations and meetings with the networks and their partners to scope potential and to identify gaps in current plans. The Networks Co-ordinator (Elaine Fox) and the Peer Researcher will travel extensively to all networks and/or associated meetings/events in order to gather material. They will host several meetings during this period with the rest of the leadership team (McPin Foundation, Mental Elf, Sixth Sense Media, Sam Parsons) to develop a clear plan of action. We will organize several other activities to build the campaign including a scoping survey, three network meetings, regular meetings with UKRI, and several on-line webinars and events. The campaign will include:
- A launch event within the first 3 months co-produced with the eight networks.
- Mini-events and activities across the country co-produced with the networks by anyone who wants to take part, guided by a "how to" toolkit.
- Social media activities to amplify messages and sustain conversations. Webinars linked to social media coverage.
- A 'why research matters to me' on-line resource with content provided by the public, academics, voluntary sector, NHS, industry, policy makers etc.
- A website with content provided from the networks - including short films, blogs from different stakeholders and lay summaries of new research findings.
| Description | 2023 Campaign In autumn 2022, we completed our main campaign. This sparked a conversation about why mental health research matters, what good MH research looks like and how people can get involved. This helped acheive strategic aims of: Bringing together the UKRI mental health research networks and amplifying them: researchers and individuals from the networks were guest speakers at all of our five webinars on core campaign themes. The campaign theme pages highlighted examples of great mental health research from each of the networks in one page. We attended their end of network events and created content around them. The protagonists of the flagship campaign animation represented the UKRI networks. -Under-represented areas in mental health & Interdisciplinary research. This was one of the four core campaign themes (alongside listening to and learning from lived experience, inclusive research that tackles inequalities and partnerships outside academia) it had a dedicated campaign web page, and a webinar hosted by Professor Kamaldeep Bhui featuring lightning talks from across the UKRI mental health networks. We produced an infographic on this topic too. A couple of blogs were written on this topic for the MHRM campaign. We launched an interdisciplinary mental health research podcast series, featuring Phillipa Hemmings from the EPSRC, Professor Terry Lyons on mathematics and mental health and the EPSRC-funded SPHERE project. We created a video highlighting the SMaRteN-funded project about belonging and mental health for Black and minority ethnic students - pooling expertise from researchers from disciplines such as geography, education and sociology. Improving collaborations between 3rd sector and academia Partnerships with organisations outside academia was another core campaign theme. We created a dedicated web page highlighting the best examples of partnerships across the UKRI networks, a webinar on this topic featuring representatives from the 3rd sector, the networks and other organisations. We created an infographic, a blog was written by Dr Jessica Bone from the MARCH network Early Career Researchers (ECRs) We continued to update the dedicated ECR section of the MHRM website - ensuring the latest ECR resources from the networks were included. ECRs were a large portion of the audiences for our online events. Mental health researchers were a primary audience for the campaign, including ECRs. Lived Experience in research - Another core campaign theme, having its own webinar and dedicated web page with examples from the networks. We had a number of blogs on this topic, including where to find lived experience involvement opportunities, the benefits and challenges of peer research, 'mental heath research is a team sport', and blogs from people who were involved in network studies in a lived experience capacity. We recruited a steering group for the campaign with 50% primarily lived experience advisers, and 50% primarily researchers (we say primarily as there is often overlap in these groups). They helped guide the campaign video and led on the lived experience involvement webinar. We also produced an infographic on this topic. Funder Liaison - we invited speakers to our webinar from UKRI, Wellcome, NIHR and other funders. We collaborated with different organisations within mental health, with MQ, BACP, NIHR joining in. ------------------------------------------------------ 2022: We have achieved our strategic aims in the following areas: Bringing together and amplifying the networks - a monthly round-up of key activities and findings from across the networks. This includes blogs, webinars, events, research, funding and more. We also supported the networks by organising a webinar with the UK Data Service so plus-funded projects can submit their data correctly after their research ends. We launched co-videos, featuring Emerging Minds, Closing the Gap, VAMHN and MARCH network - highlighting their work, the importance of lived experience in their research and the benefits of working in a network. Under-represented areas in mental health research - we have created a podcast series discussing data science, mathematics and other under-represented areas in mental health research. This will be launched shortly, due to conflicting priorities with releasing content and some delays with approval. A blog was released in summer 2021 on Archeology and mental health. Interdisciplinary research - a Q&A with Professor Kamaldeep Bhui about the importance and challenges of interdisciplinary research. A blog on air pollution and mental health was released in November 2021 (to coincide with COP 26), which heavily focused on the importance of interdisciplinary research. Early-career researchers: A dedicated portion of the website was created and a social media campaign dedicated to #ECRSeries. This highlighted an event held in December 2020 with panel events for ECRs, Open Science talks. It also has a section of the website signposting ECRs to the wealth of activity from across the networks designed to improve their skills and support their career goals. ------------------------------------- 2021 submission: We are currently conducting a scoping exercise to find potential links across the eight UKRI funded mental health networks. A report is in preparation and we aim to deliver this in early April 2020. This scoping exercise has now been completed, although not published as yet as we were diverted by the covid-19 pandemic to re-focus our attention on helping the networks to set up webinars and other virtual events to ensure that they could continue their work as efficiently as possible. |
| Exploitation Route | We hope the hashtag #MentalHealthResearchMatters will continue to be used by researchers and people within the mental health research space. We had lots of excellent feedback about the campaign, telling us what a success it was, and how inspiring and informative it was. It is hard to measure these things beyond qualitative feedback but that indicates that we have inspired researchers to conduct better and more collaborative research, as well as more people with lived experience of mental health problems to get involved with mental health research. We celebrated and highlighted the UKRI mental health research networks throughout the campaign - amplifying their existing excellent work. ------ Too early to say - the majority of the impact will be from the campaign. However, we have been sharing excellent examples good quality research, which we hope will inspire researchers to work alongside people with lived experience in their research, and work with people from different disciplines. ----------------------- The outcomes of our report will be of use to all eight of the UKRI funded mental health networks. We are currently producing a series of blogs and podcasts with researchers from across the networks as well as from the research councils, which will be up-loaded onto our dedicated website which is available to all. |
| Sectors | Education,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Other |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/ |
| Description | Our autumn campaign reached 2.7 million people on the hashtag #MentalHealthResearchMatters. Over 2,000 people tweeted using the hashtag during the campaign dates and there were over 4000 tweets on the topic during the campaign. Our online events had over 400 attendees between them - and have been watched hundreds of times on YouTube since. We will continue to keep these live on McPin and Mental Elf YouTube channels beyond the lifetime of the campaign so more researchers and research enthusiasts can find them and learn from them. We had multiple organisations joining the campaign, sharing why mental health research matters to their staff, as well as tweeting and sharing content. BACP even ran their own parallel campaign, embracing the core themes and creating a wealth of their own content to run alongside MHRM. ---------- For the early part of 2022 most of our resources have gone into the planning of the Why Mental Health Research Matters campaign in October/November 2022. We have established key themes: lived experience in research, interdisciplinarity, partnerships and inclusivity (inc anti-racism) and will turn to the networks (and beyond) for examples of good-quality research within these themes. In 2021, we have been highlighting the networks and championing their work through a variety of content, including blogs on interdisciplinary research. A substantial piece of work was the Co-videos - a video series interviewing people from the network and someone with relevant lived experience to discuss how the network responded to the pandemic. The videos also touched on what their hopes for the future for mental health looked like. Series one was released in November 2021, and Series 2 will be released in April 2022. We have brought the work of the networks together in a monthly round-up blog, sharing their research, events, resources and content. We have also been working on a podcast series featuring Philippa Hemmings from EPSRC, Professor Terry Lyons, and researchers from the SPHERE project. These podcasts will release in April 2022 - we are still waiting for final approval from some of the participants. We have kept the Mental Health Research Matters pages up to date, including showcasing funding and events from across the networks. In 2022 we added additional pages for funding beyond the UKRI networks and job opportunities in the sector, which is updated each week. This is because most funding from the networks is winding down, but we want to keep the funding pages up to date. --------------- March 2021 response: It is too early to say as yet. However, when we deliver our report in April 2020 the results will be of use to all of the stakeholders involved in the UKRI funded mental health networks. --------- 2021: Our work has had a substantive impact on the eight UKRI-funded mental health research networks by providing support and instruction on how to set up and host on-line events. We have also developed a dedicated webpage to highlight the work of the mental health networks and to serve as a focal point for our future campaign on Why Mental Health Research Matters. |
| Sector | Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Other |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | 'MHRM to me' photos and videos |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We created printable signs for people to share on social media why mental health research matters to them. Dozens of people joined in with this interactive element on the campaign - either creating videos or sharing photos on their social media. We created re-useable signs which we took to the SMaRTeN and TRIUMPH showcase events, creating videos highlighting why mental health research matters to their participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 4 ways to find lived experience advisory opportunities in mental health research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Lived experience advisor Adeola Agunbiade shared her top tips about how our audience could find lived experience opportunities in mental health research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/finding-lived-experience-opportunities/ |
| Description | 4x infographics on the campaign themes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 4x infographics on each of the core campaign themes: inclusive research that tackles inequalities, lived experience in research, partnerships outside academia and interdisciplinary research. These were created using content from the webinars on these topics. There are long versions for the MHRM website and the content has been divided up into carousels to share on social media. We are at the final stages of creating these - ready to disseminate over the next week or so. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 9 ways for mental health clinicians to keep up to date with the latest research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 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 hospital staff, as well as a mental health researcher. She shares her top tips for staying informed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/mental-health-research-keep-up-to-date/ |
| Description | A round up from week 1 - MHRM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | McPin Director, Vanessa Pinfold, wrote a blog discussing campaign highlights for week 1 of the MHRM campaign. She discussed how the campaign came about, and the plans over next few weeks of the campaign. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mcpin.org/mentalhealthresearchmatters-round-up-from-week-one/ |
| Description | Air pollution and mental health blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In summer 2021, JJ Buckle interviewed Dr Joanna Newbury on the research that she contributed to on air pollution and mental health. Joanna worked on a paper led by led by Dr Ioannis Bakolis that linked air pollution levels with the use of mental health services. The interview focused on the importance of interdisciplinary research and also highlighted Joanna's hopes for the future of mental health research. Daisy Armitage (current senior communications co-ordinator) edited the blog and released it during the COP26 conferences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/air-pollution-and-mental-health/ |
| Description | Archeology and Mental Health - what's the connection? Blog interview with MARCH network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A blog about the MARCH-funded project offering archaeology to war veterans as a means of improving their mental health. This blog focuses on interdisciplinary aspect of mental health research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/interdisciplinary-research-an-interview-with-professor-ka... |
| Description | Blog - Being an anti-racist mental health researcher, by Yasmin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of our online conversation #MentalHealthResearchMatters, we spoke to Yasmin about anti-racist mental health research. Yasmin is part of the Student team at SMarTeN network and a member of the Mental Health Research Matters Steering Group. She is a lived-experience researcher and passionate advocate for student wellbeing and the role of anti-racism in research - a crucial element of creating inclusive research that tackles inequalities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/being-an-antiracist-mental-health-researcher/ |
| Description | Blog - Building Your Networks and influencing mental health research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A blog promoting the mental health research inclubator map, encouraging better collaboration between researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/mental-health-research-map/ |
| Description | Blog - Mental Health Research Matters: yes it does! |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | McPin Director Vanessa Pinfold writes a summary of the MHRM campaign and mentions key highlights. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mcpin.org/mentalhealthresearchmatters-yes-it-does/ |
| Description | Blog - why mental health research matters to me |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Dr Emma Harding, clinical psychologist and 'Expert by Experience' (not necessarily in that order), writes about how the intricate blend of method and insight can inform mental health research - a MHRM blog for the McPin Website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mcpin.org/why-mental-health-research-matters-to-me/ |
| Description | Blog: 5 things I learned from the Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health Research Network Summer Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Daisy attended the LSIMHRN summer showcase and shared 5 key learnings from the day: 1. Loneliness and social isolation are two separate things. You can have one without the other 2. There's a bidirectional relationship between loneliness and mental health problems 3. If you think loneliness only affects older people, think again 4. Centring lived experience in loneliness and social isolation research is essential 5. Although we're moving in the right direction, there's still so much more we can learn about loneliness, social isolation and mental health |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/5-things-lsimhrn-showcase/ |
| Description | Co-Production, Commoning, and Community Empowerment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Georgia Gardner shared her experiences advising on Dance/Connect, a project funded by the Loneliness and Social Isolation Mental Health Research Network. During her time advising on the project, she noticed similarities between coproduction - the process of researchers and experts by experience collaborating to create research together, with commoning - a way of communities working together to meet people's needs. In this opinion piece, Georgia makes the case for non-hierarchical collaborative research that benefits both the researcher and experts by experience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/commoning-coproduction-mental-health/ |
| Description | Co-videos Series one - how the UKRI networks responded to the coronavirus pandemic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Co-Videos is an interview video series exploring how Covid-19 has impacted the study populations across the networks, how each of the networks has responded to the pandemic as well as wider conversations about the research landscape including lived experience in research, real world impact of research and the funding landscape. The primary audiences were mental health researchers and people working within mental health research. The first four of these co-videos were edited and released in November and December 2021 - Interviews: o Series 1: ? Emerging Minds: Prof Cathy Creswell (PI) and Yasmeen Zaman (member of Parent Advisory Group) ? Closing the Gap: Prof Simon Gilbody (PI) and Gordon Johnston (Peer Researcher) ? VAMHN: Dr Sian Oram (PI) and Justin Coleman (member of the Lived Experience Advisory Group) The team created shorter sections of videos to theme around specific questions within the interviews that were shared as bite-size conversation starters on twitter. We followed the release of the videos with several social media posts aiming to amplify the work of these networks and linking to all of the networks social media. The most successful twitter thread, highlighting the importance of lived experience in research saw 23,252 impressions and 342 engagements. The second series featuring Loneliness and Social Isolation Network, SMARTEN and TRIUMPH is due to be released in April 2022. There have been some delays with sickness and obtaining consent from some of the video participants due to busy schedules and strikes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWAqBkx311Y&list=PLSKM2Zm6MngL0TLorVHFqso6zQ7V2wJPe |
| Description | Early Career Researcher Fortnight - social media content dissemination and ECR section of the MHRM website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | In October, the MHRM created an ECR series full of funding tips and useful information for early-career researchers looking to secure funding and take their next career step. JJ and Dr Sam Parsons - MHRM's resident ECR expert- crafted a dedicated portion of the MHRM specifically for early-career researchers including: • Funding tips for early-career researchers, sharing videos from Zoe Catchpole's ECR event in December 2020 • Open Science talks, including reducing research waste, qualitative research and preregistrations and funding partnerships (from ECR event Dec 2020) • resources for ECRs from across the eight UKRI networks. • Ask the Experts roundtable featuring: Professor Kate Pickett (CtG), Dr Helen Fisher (VAMHN), Dr Caroline Jay (Emerging Minds Network), Dr Alyson Dodd (SMaRteN), Professor Rory O'Connor (TRIUMPH), Professor Jane South (MARCH), Professor Gordon Harold (eNurture). Daisy disseminated the content via Mental Elf and the McPin Twitter pages. The launch tweet gathered 9,300 impressions and 140 engagements (clicks, RTS, likes and expands). Another had 7,391 impressions and 96 engagements. The ECR funding tips page, advice from Dr Sian Oram (VAMHN), Dr Emily Lloyd (Emerging Minds), Dr Alice MacLachlan (TRIUMPH) and Dr Ellie Pearce (LS&I) has seen over 100 unique visitors since it launched in October. It also ranks highest when searching for 'ECR funding tips' on Google and in the top three pages when searching for 'Early Career Researcher funding tips' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/early-career-researchers/ |
| Description | Expanding access to evidence-based mental health for war-affected children |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Theresa Betancourt, Salem Professor in Global Practice, School of Social Work at Boston College shares why she believes researchers should be doing their highest-quality work in the lowest-resource settings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/mental-health-care-war-affected-children/ |
| Description | Expert by experience: how shaping research kick-started my career in mental health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | G shared how using their personal experience of mental ill-health to shape research opened up new career opportunities, landing them a job at a leading mental health charity. They talked about how they came across lived experience involvement opportunities, what they involved and how G contributed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/kick-starting-career-in-mental-health/ |
| Description | Experts by Experience - Mental Health Research Matters webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | The experts by experience webinar was organised and presented by the Mental Health Research Matters steering group. This event was designed to inspire people with lived experience of mental health problems to have their say in research. Speakers shared their expereince of lived experience involvement, including lived-experience led research. This was followed by break-out room sessions where attendees could speak freely with the webinar panellists. We had excellent feedback for this event. There were short clips of this webinar shared on social media, as well as the long-form video uploaded to the MHRM website and the Mental Elf YouTube Channel |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Nhhg4yaJ0 |
| Description | How can AI help us manage mental health conditions - Podcaast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 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 a hundred researchers on this project, spanning a broad range of disciplines Blog Transcript on MHRM website: https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/what-can-ai-tell-us-about-mental-health-conditions/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/national-elf-service/sphere-epsrc |
| Description | How does research benefit from a lived experience perspective? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | McPin trustee, Naheen Ali, wrote about the value of bringing your lived experience to mental health research, as part of the #MentalHealthResearchMatters campagn |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mcpin.org/how-does-research-benefit-from-a-lived-experience-perspective/ |
| Description | Identity and Mental Health: University Muslim students' experiences of Mental Health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Arif Mahmud, Senior Lecturer in Educational Practice at the University of Roehampton, wrote about the barriers Muslim students face in accessing mental health services. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/blogs/ |
| Description | Imact report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A visual summary sharing key campaign highlights - linking to relevant sections on the MHRM website. This is a tool to thank everyone who was involved in the campaign, as well as sharing on social media. This is at the final draft stages at the time of writing, but will be shared on the MHRM website, social media and emailed directly to all participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Interdisciplinarity in Research with Professor Kamaldeep Bhui |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A Q&A with Professor Bhui, who was a member of the MARCH SIRG on interdisciplinary working. Professor Bhui explains why interdisciplinary research is so important for mental health, but also outlines some of the challenges of working together with people from so many disciplines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/interdisciplinary-research-an-interview-with-professor-ka... |
| Description | MHRM Flagship animation - Why MHRM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We created a flagship animation for the campaign, working with Angela from Love and Logic. We were given direction by working with a professional and lived experience steering group and the UKRI mental health networks to guide the script, characters and animation style. This video had over 5k views on the Mental Elf Twitter alone, and was pinned on McPin and Mental Elf's twitter accounts throughout the campaign dates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhrpnPeUR4k&t=1s |
| Description | MHRM theme page - Listening and learning from lived experience in research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A web page highlighting the key campaign theme of lived experience in research. It gave examples from each network of good lived experience involvement, as well as sharing resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/what-good-mental-health-research-look-like/lived-experien... |
| Description | MHRM webinar - Academia to Action - MHR and policymaking |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dame Til Wykes hosted the final mental health research matters webinar. This event was focused on turning mental health research into policy. She was joined by speakers from the NHS, Welsh Government, Irish Government, organisations such as the Centre for Mental Health and researchers who had successfully influenced policy. They shared their best advice for how your mental health research can better inform practice. There were short clips of this webinar shared on social media, as well as the long-form video uploaded to the MHRM website and the Mental Elf YouTube Channel |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/vkRiMXF18g4 |
| Description | MHRM webinar - partnerships outside academia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Partnerships webinar focused on how to successfully work in partnerships in organisations outside academia. Speakers from the UKRI mental health research networks and partner organisations discussed their work together and shared their successes, the challenges of working in this way, and their top tips. Speakers were from organisations such as Action on Smoking Health, the Campaign to End Loneliness among other organisations. There were short clips of this webinar shared on social media, as well as the long-form video uploaded to the MHRM website and the Mental Elf YouTube Channel |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/M8p6o0FTlSc |
| Description | Mental health research is a team sport |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 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 wrote about the many benefits of multidisciplinary approaches to mental health research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/multidisciplinary-mental-health-research/ |
| Description | Mental illness: a view from inside and outside |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Dr Fiona Riddoch is the co-founder of Words That Carry On, a mental health research fund in memory of her daughter Lindsay. Lindsay was passionate about the importance of lived experience in better understanding mental health. As a researcher within the field of renewable energy, Fiona understands the transformative power of research. Words That Carry On funds a study that seeks to improve our understanding of complex mental health needs and autism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/mental-illness-and-good-quality-mental-health-research/ |
| Description | Mental wellbeing doesn't exist in isolation and mental health research shouldn't either |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 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 her role in the Closing the Gap network research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/collaborative-approaches-mental-health-research/ |
| Description | Multidisciplinary MHR web page |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A web page highlighting the UKRI networks best examples of multidisciplinary and interdiscipinary mental health research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/what-good-mental-health-research-look-like/multidisciplin... |
| Description | Multidisciplinary Mental Health Research - 'unusual discipline' Lightning talks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A YouTube Playlist of 6 Lightning talks featuring researchers from various disciplines discussing how they got into mental health research and their top tips for interdisciplinary mental health research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTfvDVdgNAE&list=PLSKM2Zm6MngIZ7hQZemaG3qN749ccCSKA |
| Description | Overall campaign Twitter statistics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Overall stats for the campaign during the campaign dates 10th Oct - 1st Dec: #MentalHealthResearchMatters overall impressions: 2.7 million 4000 tweets from 2000 different accounts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/search?q=%23mentalhealthresearchmatters&src=typed_query |
| Description | Podcast - Mathematics and Mental Health - What's the connection? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | How can mathematics contribute to mental health research? Although the two seem distinct, the connection is found in data. Mathematics can help make sense of complex, messy evolving data, helping to build a helpful bigger picture from multiple smaller snapshots. JJ speaks to Professor Terry Lyons, the principal investigator on EPSRC-funded DataSig, about how his work in mathematics led him to mental health research. He also talks about the importance of interdisciplinary research, and the role of the EPS community in mental health research. Shared on Spotify, iTunes, and SoundCloud |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/national-elf-service/mathematics-and-mental-health-whats-the-connection |
| Description | Podcast: Why do the EPSRC want to fund more mental health research? With Philippa Hemmings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As the mental health crisis continues, The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council are finding mental health researcher higher up their priority list. Philippa Hemmings, Head of Healthcare Technologies at the EPSRC tells the Mental Health Research Matters team how the EPS community can contribute to mental health research. She touches on the importance of interdisciplinary research, and how you shouldn't wait for the perfect funding call to come along. Find out more about EPSRC: www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/ Find out more about Mental Health Research Matters: www.mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/national-elf-service/why-do-the-epsrc-want-to-fund-more-mental-health-researc... |
| Description | Podcasts and Media Interviews on Resilience and Young People's Mental Health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I have conducted several interviews with TV and Radio and have been a guest on some podcasts to highlight the importance of mental health research and the factors that support resilient functioning in young people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.acamh.org/blog/in-conversation-prof-elaine-fox/ |
| Description | RCP Child Psychiatry Section meeting- talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk to UK child psychiatrists |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SMaRteN Showcase video and social media posts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Daisy attended the SMaRteN showcase. She posted from the McPin social media channel highlights from the day and key speakers. During the breaks, she spoke with attendees, asking them to hold up Mental Health Resarch Matters signs and share why MHRM to them. She created a Reel to highlight these for the McPin Instagram. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ckp9LhsAD-p/ |
| Description | TRIUMPH showcase video + blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Vanessa Pinfold, The Director of The McPin Foundation, attended the TRIUMPH network showcase. She collected photos of some of the young people holding signs saying why MHRM, which the comms team made a video from. She also wrote a blog highlighting her experiences at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mcpin.org/young-peoples-empowerment-at-triumph-fest/ |
| Description | The Round-Ups - monthly highlights from the UKRI mental health networks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Round-Up is a monthly blog that shares the highlights from across the UKRI mental health networks. It was launched in April 2021 and has continued every month since. The blog comprises of top news from the networks, any useful resources, funding opportunities, videos, blogs and podcast episodes. It's a great resource for people from across the networks and other researchers to access the wealth of resources and content produced across the 8 UKRI mental health networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | http://www.mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/blogs |
| Description | The role of interdisciplinary studies in mental health research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Anne-Laure Le Cunff, a member of the SMaRteN network and the Mental Health Research Matters steering group, discusses the importance of interdisciplinary mental health research. She argues we need to bring together people from different disciplines and expertise in order to further mental health research that is effective and inclusive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/interdisciplinary-studies-in-mental-health-research/ |
| Description | The wisdom, privilege, and challenges of peer academic researchers in mental health research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Ruth Knight and Richard Knight are academic researchers with lived experience of subjects they have studied. They discussed how researchers like them provide a unique viewpoint that can improve mental health research, but also address the privilege that comes with being a peer researcher with an academic background. They explore the challenges and emotional labour of having personal experience of your research subject, discuss lived experience in research through an intersectional lense, and how supportive mentoring can transform mental health research for the better. Ruth is part of the Emerging Minds network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/peer-academic-researchers-mental-health-research/ |
| Description | Time, space belonging and mental health - video exploring a SMArTeN funded study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The #MentalHealthResearchMatters team speaks to Dr Kavita Ramakrishnan, Dr Esther Priyadharshini and Farah Ghaffar about their SMaRteN-funded research. Their work explored feelings of belonging for PhD students from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds. This was a truly collaborative project, with everyone involved part of a collective. They tell us about the process of working alongside participating PhD students to form a collective, share experiences, create a zine, writing the paper together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT5NmpJ4blo&list=PLSKM2Zm6MngKy37I2nQvsTZcdpKQIQbVH |
| Description | VAMHN network video |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A video to go on the VAMHN website, highlighting the networks' successes so far and encouraging more people to join VAMHN as the network continues into the future. Not released at the time of writing, but will be launched in 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Videos - Covideos S2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Covideos S2 - Loneliness and Social Isolation, TRIUMPH, SMaRteN (S1 released and recorded in the 2022 ResearchFish submission) The Mental Health Research Matters team spoke with representatives across the UKRI-funded mental health networks about the Covid-19 pandemic. The result? a video series called Co-videos. The Co-videos explore how the networks responded to the pandemic, and their successes along the way. UKRI funded the mental health networks in 2018, so a signifiant portion of their lifespans have been defined by the pandemic. Each network faced unique challenges during the pandemic, whether evaluating whether to shift research priorites or advocating for people left behind in the digital divide. During the Co-videos, a researcher and someone with relevant lived experience from each network reflect on the pandemic. They discussed: how the pandemic affected the populations the networks are seeking to help their learnings from lockdowns and social distancing the value of working in a network ecosystem the importance of centring lived experience in research; and their hopes for the future of mental health research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/covideos/ |
| Description | Web page - inclusive, antiracist MHR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A web page highlighting the UKRI MH network's inclusive, antiracist research that addresses inequalities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/what-good-mental-health-research-look-like/inclusive-anti... |
| Description | Web page - partnership working with non-academic orgs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A page summarising the UKR MH networks examples of partnership working with non-academic organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/what-good-mental-health-research-look-like/partnership-wo... |
| Description | Webinar - How your mental health research can be more inclusive and tackle inequalities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A webinar for the #MentalHealthResearchMatters campaign discussing the role of mental health research addressing inequalities. Hosted by Dr Celestin Okoroji from Black Thrive. He was joined by 4x researchers from the UKRI mental health research networks to discuss their own research on these topics and how researchers could apply this to their own work. There were short clips of this webinar shared on social media, as well as the long-form video uploaded to the MHRM website and the Mental Elf YouTube Channel |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/EaYLjzeSSwE |
| Description | Webinar - Multidisciplinary research: how to do it (better) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Multidisicplinary mental health research webinar was hosted by Professor Kam Bhui. He hosted researchers from different disciplines sharing their best tips and tricks for mental health researchers looking to do better interdisciplinary research. We also ran a number of lightning talks from researchers from the UKRI networks, sharing 3-minute talks on their 'unusual' disciplines and how they add value to mental health research, including disciplines such as history, architecture and built environment, music, and computer sciences. There were short clips of this webinar shared on social media, as well as the long-form video uploaded to the MHRM website and the Mental Elf YouTube Channel |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/4ZTVRM1lTLk |
| Description | Webinars |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We conducted several webinars on various aspects of why mental health research matters. Two events were specifically on early career researchers and attracted almost 200 people. We also hosted webinars across the mental health research networks to support the networks to host and run webinars and other virtual events in light of the covid-19 pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/ |
| Description | What are the biosciences roles in mental health? - Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Primary audiences - researchers and people passionate about mental health. A blog discussing the biosciences and their role in mental health research. This focuses on the importance of interdisciplinary research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/what-is-biosciences-role-in-mental-health-research/ |
| Description | What does good mental health research look like? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An animation created with Sixth Sense media about what good mental health research looks like. This underpinned the four campaign themes of: listening to and learning from experts by experience, inclusive and antiracist research that tackles inequalities, partnerships outside academia and multidisciplinary mental health research. This was shown at MQ's science fest, as well as on the MHRM website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VZDedpmXOI&t=38s |
| Description | What is mental health research? Is it just for medication? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | To introduce the campaign, Daisy wrote a 'What is mental health research? Is it just medication?' article. The idea was to improve SEO for the MHRM website, as well as showcasing excellent examples of research from the UKRI mental health research networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/what-is-mental-health-research/ |
| Description | When taking part in research is your service - Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | #MentalHealthResearchMatters and is a force for good, wrote Thomas Kabir, McPin's head of Public Involvement in Research. In this blog, he wrote about how taking part in research can help both the person volunteering to participate in the study and society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mcpin.org/when-taking-part-in-research-is-your-service/ |
| Description | Why Mental Health Research Matters Steering Group Recruitment blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | In October 2022 the Impact and Engagement team are launching a national conversation: Why mental health research matters. We were keen to make sure to have a steering group involving people with lived experience of mental health problems, and early-career researchers. We have requested that each person who takes part is connected to a UKRI network in one way or another, whether as a funded researcher or an expert by experience who has worked alongside a network, eg a YPAG member. Since posting this in March 2022, 17 people have applied to be in the steering group to help shape the campaign in autumn this year, as well as help create content. The content they create could be their personal mental health story, the research they are involved in with the networks or mental health research that excites them and is making a difference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/join-the-mental-health-research-matters-steering-group/ |
| Description | Why we need more cutting-edge mental health research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Robert Westhead, Head of Media and Staff Communications at Oxford Health NHS Foundation, writes about bipolar disorder, emerging from the 'upside down' and how we're just beginning to grasp the workings of the human brain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/cutting-edge-mental-health-research/ |
| Description | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/top-tips-collaborative-research-community-partners/ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 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. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk/top-tips-collaborative-research-community-partners/ |
| Description | mental elf 'leaders' tiles - MHRM campaign |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Throughout the MHRM campaign, Mental Elf posted 'leaders tiles' - taking a quote and an image of a mental health researcher, linking to a study that they have worked on that has made a difference in mental health research - including researchers from the UKRI mental health research networks. These were a popular element of the campaign. One example linked below - but there were dozens throughout the campaign. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/Mental_Elf/status/1585563857447256064 |