Loneliness and social isolation in mental health: proposal for a network for cross-disciplinary collaboration and capacity development
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Division of Psychiatry
Abstract
People are said to be lonely when they feel unpleasantly lacking in meaningful connections with other people. They are described as socially isolated when they have little social contact. Lonely people are more likely to be socially isolated, but the two do not always go together. Researchers have found that these states have significant impacts on physical and mental health. Some of this research is about loneliness and some about social isolation - we plan to look at both alongside each other, as it can be difficult to disentangle their effects. The strongest evidence is on the impact of loneliness on physical health. For example, people who are persistently lonely tend to die earlier and have more heart disease.
There is less research on loneliness and social isolation in mental health, but it's clear there are many links. For example, people who are lonely and/or socially isolated are more likely to become depressed, and depressed people who are lonely/lacking in social support recover less well than others. So by helping people to feel less lonely, some people could be prevented from developing mental health problems. Among people who already have mental health problems, strategies aimed at reducing loneliness and/or social isolation may help recovery. Some such strategies have been developed, for instance by charities. However, we don't yet have good evidence about how good these strategies are at reducing loneliness and social isolation, and about which are best for which people. We also don't know much about the extent to which they prevent people from developing mental health problems, or improve life for people who already have them.
Challenges in trying to improve this evidence are the many different influences on loneliness and social isolation. For instance, people's genetic make-up, the way they tend to think about other people, their caring responsibilities, their disabilities, the architecture and layout of the area they live in, and their income and education are just some of things that influence whether people become lonely or isolated. Possible ways of helping are also very varied. Talking treatments seem to help some lonely people. Other ways of helping include supporting people in rebuilding former relationships, or in getting involved in the arts, sport or religious practice. Digital ways of connecting may help some people. Another approach is to try to make a whole community, or even a country, friendlier and less divided.
No one is an expert in all fields relevant to loneliness and social isolation and their relationship to mental health, and that's why this call is a great opportunity for us to get together a network that includes many different kinds of relevant expert. We will hold a series of events where people bring together their expertise to map out what we already know between us about this field. We will also involve throughout our activities a group of people with personal experience of mental health problems. They will work with researchers, and with charities and public organisations who are active in this field, to work out the priorities for further research that brings together different types of expertise.
Once we've mapped the evidence and established research priorities, we will advertise to researchers within and outside our network an opportunity to carry out small projects that will help move this field forwards. There are some excellent young researchers in this field who have joined our network - we aim especially to support them and other potential future leaders in applying for funding. The final stage will involve presenting the network's work widely. This will include papers and a conference for other researchers, meetings with policy makers, and discussions with professionals and the public about our findings and potential next steps. Our blogger collaborators the Mental Elf and Mark Brown, and our roles in policy research will help us at this stage.
There is less research on loneliness and social isolation in mental health, but it's clear there are many links. For example, people who are lonely and/or socially isolated are more likely to become depressed, and depressed people who are lonely/lacking in social support recover less well than others. So by helping people to feel less lonely, some people could be prevented from developing mental health problems. Among people who already have mental health problems, strategies aimed at reducing loneliness and/or social isolation may help recovery. Some such strategies have been developed, for instance by charities. However, we don't yet have good evidence about how good these strategies are at reducing loneliness and social isolation, and about which are best for which people. We also don't know much about the extent to which they prevent people from developing mental health problems, or improve life for people who already have them.
Challenges in trying to improve this evidence are the many different influences on loneliness and social isolation. For instance, people's genetic make-up, the way they tend to think about other people, their caring responsibilities, their disabilities, the architecture and layout of the area they live in, and their income and education are just some of things that influence whether people become lonely or isolated. Possible ways of helping are also very varied. Talking treatments seem to help some lonely people. Other ways of helping include supporting people in rebuilding former relationships, or in getting involved in the arts, sport or religious practice. Digital ways of connecting may help some people. Another approach is to try to make a whole community, or even a country, friendlier and less divided.
No one is an expert in all fields relevant to loneliness and social isolation and their relationship to mental health, and that's why this call is a great opportunity for us to get together a network that includes many different kinds of relevant expert. We will hold a series of events where people bring together their expertise to map out what we already know between us about this field. We will also involve throughout our activities a group of people with personal experience of mental health problems. They will work with researchers, and with charities and public organisations who are active in this field, to work out the priorities for further research that brings together different types of expertise.
Once we've mapped the evidence and established research priorities, we will advertise to researchers within and outside our network an opportunity to carry out small projects that will help move this field forwards. There are some excellent young researchers in this field who have joined our network - we aim especially to support them and other potential future leaders in applying for funding. The final stage will involve presenting the network's work widely. This will include papers and a conference for other researchers, meetings with policy makers, and discussions with professionals and the public about our findings and potential next steps. Our blogger collaborators the Mental Elf and Mark Brown, and our roles in policy research will help us at this stage.
Planned Impact
The longer-term impact we are aiming for relates to two overlapping groups of people - people with mental health problems, and people in the general population who are lonely and/or socially isolated, or at risk or becoming so. By loneliness we mean a subjective feeling of not having sufficient meaningful contact with other people. By social isolation, we mean an objective lack of social contacts. The two are related but distinct: someone may choose solitude and thus be isolated but not lonely, or they may feel lonely despite considerable contact with others. We plan to study the two concepts alongside each other as they are often hard to disentangle in interpreting research evidence.
Regarding people with mental health problems, our ultimate aim is to find ways of reducing loneliness and social isolation. In terms of impact, loneliness is by definition unpleasant, so that reducing the current high rates among people with mental health problems is in itself a significant goal. Loneliness and social isolation are also associated with poor physical health and high levels of health service use, so that there are potential physical health and also economic benefits from reducing them. There is also emerging evidence that loneliness and social isolation impede recovery among people with mental health problems, another reason why targeting them may have a substantial impact. A better understanding of the interrelationships between mental health problems and loneliness and social isolation, and evidence on which strategies are most effective are means by which we hope our network will eventually result in these positive impacts for people with mental health problems.
There is also potential impact from our network's activities for people in the general population who are lonely and/socially isolated. There is evidence that such people are at greater risk than others of developing mental health problems. It is therefore possible that by reducing loneliness and/or social isolation, some mental health problems can be prevented. We hope that our network will result in evidence allowing this possibility to be further assessed. It may be that in such preventive work it would be most fruitful to target groups who are particularly vulnerable to loneliness and social isolation. These include people with disabilities, carers, new parents, refugees, students and older adults.
As our proposal is to establish a research network rather than to conduct a major study, we do not envisage achieving all these impacts within the life of the network. We do expect some short to medium-term impacts, including from dissemination to practitioners, policy makers and the public reports from experts from a wide range of disciplines on the current state of evidence on loneliness and social isolation and mental health. We hope that this will stimulate innovation and an intensified focus on the area. The relatively small projects that we will fund in the second stage of the project will also make advances in the field that may have impacts on practice and prevention.
However, the major impacts of the network are longer term. In the process of developing this application, we have brought together a substantial group of researchers from a wide range of disciplines field who were in many cases not aware of relevant work in related fields. By bringing together and enhancing this network, and stimulating discussions with people with lived experiences and providers of innovative services, we anticipate a wave of new work in this field that integrates biological, psychological and social approaches to explanation and intervention much better than before. We hope this will contribute to the impacts described above.
The network will also make an impact through support for a very promising cohort of early careers researchers. A very significant expected impact will be to contribute significantly to researcher capacity in this field.
Regarding people with mental health problems, our ultimate aim is to find ways of reducing loneliness and social isolation. In terms of impact, loneliness is by definition unpleasant, so that reducing the current high rates among people with mental health problems is in itself a significant goal. Loneliness and social isolation are also associated with poor physical health and high levels of health service use, so that there are potential physical health and also economic benefits from reducing them. There is also emerging evidence that loneliness and social isolation impede recovery among people with mental health problems, another reason why targeting them may have a substantial impact. A better understanding of the interrelationships between mental health problems and loneliness and social isolation, and evidence on which strategies are most effective are means by which we hope our network will eventually result in these positive impacts for people with mental health problems.
There is also potential impact from our network's activities for people in the general population who are lonely and/socially isolated. There is evidence that such people are at greater risk than others of developing mental health problems. It is therefore possible that by reducing loneliness and/or social isolation, some mental health problems can be prevented. We hope that our network will result in evidence allowing this possibility to be further assessed. It may be that in such preventive work it would be most fruitful to target groups who are particularly vulnerable to loneliness and social isolation. These include people with disabilities, carers, new parents, refugees, students and older adults.
As our proposal is to establish a research network rather than to conduct a major study, we do not envisage achieving all these impacts within the life of the network. We do expect some short to medium-term impacts, including from dissemination to practitioners, policy makers and the public reports from experts from a wide range of disciplines on the current state of evidence on loneliness and social isolation and mental health. We hope that this will stimulate innovation and an intensified focus on the area. The relatively small projects that we will fund in the second stage of the project will also make advances in the field that may have impacts on practice and prevention.
However, the major impacts of the network are longer term. In the process of developing this application, we have brought together a substantial group of researchers from a wide range of disciplines field who were in many cases not aware of relevant work in related fields. By bringing together and enhancing this network, and stimulating discussions with people with lived experiences and providers of innovative services, we anticipate a wave of new work in this field that integrates biological, psychological and social approaches to explanation and intervention much better than before. We hope this will contribute to the impacts described above.
The network will also make an impact through support for a very promising cohort of early careers researchers. A very significant expected impact will be to contribute significantly to researcher capacity in this field.
Organisations
- University College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- Medical Research Council (Co-funder)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Co-funder)
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (Co-funder)
- Wales Centre for Public Policy (Collaboration)
- Manchester University (Collaboration)
- What Works Centre for Wellbeing (Collaboration)
- GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Pakistan Institute of Learning and Living (Collaboration)
- University of Bath (Collaboration)
- Waterford Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH (Collaboration)
- Brunel University London (Collaboration)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Academic Medical Center (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON (Collaboration)
- University of East Anglia (Collaboration)
- Royal College of Music (RCM) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF DERBY (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Collaboration)
- MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- City, University of London (Collaboration)
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Collaboration)
- National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Collaboration)
- KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
Publications
Ma R
(2020)
The effectiveness of interventions for reducing subjective and objective social isolation among people with mental health problems: a systematic review.
in Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Mahoney J
(2019)
Feeling alone among 317 million others: Disclosures of loneliness on Twitter
in Computers in Human Behavior
McDaid D
(2021)
Modelling the Economic Impact of Reducing Loneliness in Community Dwelling Older People in England.
in International journal of environmental research and public health
Mezey G
(2022)
'Modelling social exclusion in a diagnostically-mixed sample of people with severe mental illness'.
in The International journal of social psychiatry
Perkins R
(2021)
Arts engagement supports social connectedness in adulthood: findings from the HEartS Survey.
in BMC public health
Perkins R
(2020)
How Participatory Music Engagement Supports Mental Well-being: A Meta-Ethnography.
in Qualitative health research
| Description | The primary aim of our cross-disciplinary network is to encourage active research collaborations to improve our understanding of the mental health impact of loneliness and social isolation, and how this may be alleviated. Our outputs are therefore the sum of the parts of different research teams' outputs (some covered in individual Researchfish submissions), but also the ideas and collaborations generated through the creation of a network of collaborators. These collaborators, with particular emphasis on Early Career Researchers (ECRs), span disciplines including clinical psychology, applied mental health research, social epidemiology, public mental health, human geography, history, civil engineering, health economics, public health, social policy, sociology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, architecture, geography, the arts, digital design and human-computer interaction. • What were the most significant achievements from the award? The most significant achievements from this award have been : Membership: A network has been established spanning early and mid-career researchers, international experts, the third sector policy makers and people with lived experience of mental health problems. They span disciplines including clinical psychology, applied mental health research, social epidemiology, public mental health, human geography, history, civil engineering, health economics, public health, social policy, sociology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, architecture, geography, the arts, digital design and human-computer interaction. PPI: Establishment of a Co-Production Group of 20 people with relevant lived experience of loneliness or social isolation and mental health problems, who have met around monthyhl during the more active phase of the network, and advised on/became involved with several of the Network's funded Plus Projects as well as the core network activities. Following the end of the network in its current phase, core members of this Co-Production Group will continue as a Co-Production Group associated with our new funding from the UCL NIHR Biomedical Research Centre's Mental Health Theme, with which we will be a platform for further development of a research programme on loneliness among people with serious mental health conditions. ECRs: Establishment of a network of over 80 early career researcher (ECR) members, many of whom have presented or attended events we have held, including our large Summer Showcase in 2022, where the majority of presentations were by ECRs. ECRs were also very prominent in our funding awards - the Plus Projects awarded from Network fundings to seed new research in loneliness and mental health. Events: Attendance of a range of network members from a wide range of research disciplines at major network events, including giving presentations. This supports the network aim of developing cross-disciplinary research regarding loneliness and social isolation in mental health. Our most recent event was a summer showcase in July 2022: we plan a further webinar in May 2023. Events are uploaded here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/loneliness-and-social-isolation-14 Online presence: Our Twitter feed has 5349 followers. Our website hosts Powerpoint slides for many of our presentations, as well as podcasts, and links to key resources. Our network's main events have been live-tweeted and in some cases streamed, with a series of podcasts resulting from events. Our partner the Mental Elf has disseminated major events to a large on-line audience, and has guided us in engaging with the public and a wider group of stakeholders, resulting in considerable reach and interest beyond those attending in person. Plus Projects: We held a series of events to identify research priorities for our two Plus Projects funding calls, which also resulted in the creation of a draft theoretical model. We eventually funded 12 Plus Projects, 6 focusing on aetiology and the relationship between loneliness and social isolation in mental health, and six on interventions. We have added outputs to our submission. Details of the projects are here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/loneliness-and-social-isolation-28 Grants: Early in 2019 we won funding from the Campaign to End Loneliness to conduct a review of the literature on psychological interventions to address loneliness, and have submitted this. A further grant supported by our network, led by a network member and with input from one of our network leads, has been successful. This was a ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative grant awarded to Dr Praveetha Patalay, UCL. Members of the Network Co-applicant group have also obtained funding from the NIHR HTA funding programme for a large randomised controlled trial of a Community Navigator intervention for loneliness among people with depression that has been resistant to drug and psychological treatments. Two ESRC PhD studentships have been awarded to students associated with the network to continue work on the relationship between loneliness and mental health, one focused on people with a "personality disorder" diagnosis and one on loneliness and the outcomes of psychological treatment. Research projects: Members of our network have conducted primary research with the support of network co-investigators, and have published or are submitting for publication studies including; • Analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) to investigate the association between baseline loneliness and subsequent depression • Meta-synthesis of qualitative data describing the experience of loneliness in young people with depression • 2 qualitative studies using interview data with staff from voluntary sector organisations to investigate community sector practitioners' perspectives on the factors that cause and maintain loneliness in young people, and the strategies and barriers used to engage young people who experience loneliness • An interview study with people who experience loneliness and mental health problems, exploring their views of what has been or could be helpful in alleviating loneliness • A systematic review of the literature on psychological interventions to address loneliness • An umbrella review |(review of reviews) of systematic reviews of the literature on loneliness or social isolation in relation to mental health populations • A systematic review of qualitative literature on experiences of loneliness among people with a "personality disorder" diagnosis - A study of loneliness among international students who participated in the BBC's Loneliness Experiment - Reviews of quantitative and qualitative studies on the relationship between loneliness and perinatal mental health problems - A review of the impacts of digital interventions in loneliness - A review of the relationship between loneliness and neighbourhood factors that influence mental health |
| Exploitation Route | Some network activities will continue through funding from the NIHR Biomedical Centre at UCLH's Mental Health Theme. Our network will remain active and continue to foster collaborations and disseminate evidence and ideas. We will be focusing especially on the relationship between loneliness and more severe mental health conditions. Our Co-Production Group will remain active to support this goal, and will also be available to engage with other researchers in this field. Many of the network activities and research outputs, including from Plus Projects, provide foundations for larger-scale research (this was an important selection criterion in commissioning the Plus Projects) - awards for further funding are in developing, and we will monitor them and, as far as feasible within reduced resources, offer our support. |
| Sectors | Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/loneliness-and-social-isolation |
| Description | Our commissioned review of the literature on psychological interventions to address loneliness, submitted to the Campaign to End Loneliness in 2019, forms part of the report they released on 'The Psychology of Loneliness': https://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/blog/the-psychology-of-loneliness-why-it-matters-and-what-we-can-do/. We anticipate that this will have an impact on the interventions made available to groups who experience loneliness. The findings from our review of interventions to reduce loneliness, anxiety and depression in young people, commissioned by the Wellcome Trust, has fed into Co-RAY briefings on loneliness and social isolation for young people, their carers, and people working with young people. Our consultation of people with mental health problems about their experiences of loneliness and during the COVID-19 pandemic, in collaboration with the Mental Health Policy Research Unit, will directly inform policy in the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS bodies. We have also co-produced a booklet aimed at the general population and people experiencing mental ill-health called "Conversations around loneliness and mental health: What helps and what to do if it doesn't" which draws on what people said during our consultation, which has been widely disseminated in our newsletter and on Twitter. We contributed to Evidence Report commissioned by the Tackling Loneliness team in the Department of Digital, Media, Culture and Sport: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-loneliness-evidence-review. • A summary of how the findings from your award are impacting the public, private or third/voluntary sectors, and elsewhere. We have had strong representation from the third/voluntary sector and from NHS and social care practitioners at our events, who are interested in applying research findings to their areas of practice. We have had less evidence of impact on the private sector. • Challenges overcome to achieve impact. One challenge we have faced is how to reach audiences who cannot easily attend events in London. We have overcome this by live-streaming events, using the reach of our partner The Mental Elf on Twitter, uploading podcast discussion, using Tweetchats, and uploading presentations to our website. We have had very positive feedback from ECRs on the resources we provide on our website, and this has supported them in their grant applications and writing papers. In response the the COVID_19 pandemic we have switched all of our events online and this has improved access to those outside of London and internationally. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
| Sector | Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Advising the Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning (PILL) on the design of the first Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Advising the research team who lead the COSMO and MCS cohorts |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Advising the research team who lead the regular Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Attended roundtable on loneliness and transport with the department for transport |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Consultation group for an ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative (SDAI) grant awarded to Dr Praveetha Patalay |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT007575%2F1 |
| Description | Contribution to Co-RAY briefing on loneliness & social isolation for young people, their carers, and people working with young people by LSIMHRN coordinator, joint-PI, Co-I and members |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://emergingminds.org.uk/co-ray-project/ |
| Description | Contribution to Co-RAY briefing on loneliness & social isolation for young people, their carers, and people working with young people by LSIMHRN coordinator, joint-PI, Co-I and members |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://emergingminds.org.uk/co-ray-evidence-informed-briefings/ |
| Description | Contribution to Department of Digital Culture, Media and Sport Report - Tackling Loneliness Evidence Review |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-loneliness-evidence-review |
| Description | Evidence to parliamentary select committee inquiry into rural mental health |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Independent report - Tackling loneliness evidence review comissioned by DCMS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-loneliness-evidence-review |
| Description | New undergraduate module on Musical Care |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | A qualitative investigation of the experience of loneliness and social isolation in SSAFA beneficiaries, volunteers, and staff during COVID-19 |
| Amount | £19,952 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Campaign to End Loneliness commissioned a review entitled: "Strategies for encouraging psychological and emotional resilience in response to loneliness" (competitive application) |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Campaign to End Loneliness |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 07/2019 |
| Description | Dr Alexandra Pitman supported & is on the steering group for Network member Praveetha Patalay's 'WWCW Highlight Call: Understanding social isolation and subjective wellbeing across the life course: a project using five British birth cohort studies' |
| Amount | £238,982 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/T007575/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | HEartS Professional: The Health, Economic, and Social impact of COVID-19 on PROFESSIONALs in the ARTs (Rosie Perkins is co-investigator) |
| Amount | £387,878 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/V013874/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2020 |
| Description | Loneliness as an active ingredient in preventing or alleviating youth anxiety and depression: a critical interpretative synthesis incorporating principles from rapid realist reviews |
| Amount | £34,178 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Active Ingredients commission |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 10/2020 |
| Description | Loneliness in people with severe mental health problems - sub-theme in UCLH BRC Mental Health Theme |
| Amount | £2,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 03/2028 |
| Description | RCM Policy Support Fund: Mapping musical care at the beginning of life in the UK |
| Amount | £18,527 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal College of Music (RCM) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Randomised controlled trial of the Community Navigator programme to reduce loneliness and depression for adults with treatment resistant depression in secondary mental health services |
| Amount | £1,912,617 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIHR131647 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | Royal College of Music Knowledge Exchange Project Fund: Identifying pathways for implementing and scaling up musical care during the beginning of life in the UK |
| Amount | £11,050 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal College of Music (RCM) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Description | Royal College of Music Knowledge Exchange and Participatory Research Funds: Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing Knowledge Exchange Events |
| Amount | £5,387 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal College of Music (RCM) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Description | Studentship for PhD for Theodora Stefanidou: Loneliness and outcomes of psychological treatment |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2022 |
| End | 09/2025 |
| Description | UBEL ESRC doctoral school: Studentship on Loneliness in "personality disorder" for Sarah Ikhtabi |
| Amount | £90,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2021 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Description | Advising on Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys |
| Organisation | National Centre for Social Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Members of our network are advising the research team who lead the regular Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys in adding a loneliness measure to the next planned survey (Alexandra Pitman, in collaboration with Dr Sally McManus, NatCen). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of our network are advising the research team who lead the regular Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys in adding a loneliness measure to the next planned survey (Alexandra Pitman, in collaboration with Dr Sally McManus, NatCen). |
| Impact | Next planned survey will include loneliness measure. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Advising the Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning on first Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey for Pakistan |
| Organisation | Manchester University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Members of our network are advising the Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning (PILL) on the design of the first Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey for Pakistan in relation to including a measure of loneliness (Alexandra Pitman, in collaboration with Professor Nusrat Husain, University of Manchester, and Professor Nasim Chaudhry, PILL). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of our network are advising the Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning (PILL) on the design of the first Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey for Pakistan in relation to including a measure of loneliness (Alexandra Pitman, in collaboration with Professor Nusrat Husain, University of Manchester, and Professor Nasim Chaudhry, PILL). |
| Impact | Pans for the first Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey for Pakistan to include a measure of loneliness. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Advising the Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning on first Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey for Pakistan |
| Organisation | Pakistan Institute of Learning and Living |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Members of our network are advising the Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning (PILL) on the design of the first Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey for Pakistan in relation to including a measure of loneliness (Alexandra Pitman, in collaboration with Professor Nusrat Husain, University of Manchester, and Professor Nasim Chaudhry, PILL). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Members of our network are advising the Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning (PILL) on the design of the first Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey for Pakistan in relation to including a measure of loneliness (Alexandra Pitman, in collaboration with Professor Nusrat Husain, University of Manchester, and Professor Nasim Chaudhry, PILL). |
| Impact | Pans for the first Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey for Pakistan to include a measure of loneliness. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Cross-Nation Men's Shed Collaboration |
| Organisation | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The collaboration has been used to share experiences of research in Men's Sheds and to create an engagement event to discuss social prescribing in Men's Sheds. I presented findings from our research at the event and used as a basis for discussion. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaborators are experienced researchers in men's mental health and Men's Sheds. They have shared experiences and findings from their respective projects in this area. They have each contributed to the development of a knowledge exchange event bring together networks from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. |
| Impact | Knowledge exchange event (outlined in Researchfish): Demystifying Social Prescribing in Men's Sheds: A Cross Nation Event. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Cross-Nation Men's Shed Collaboration |
| Organisation | Waterford Institute of Technology |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The collaboration has been used to share experiences of research in Men's Sheds and to create an engagement event to discuss social prescribing in Men's Sheds. I presented findings from our research at the event and used as a basis for discussion. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaborators are experienced researchers in men's mental health and Men's Sheds. They have shared experiences and findings from their respective projects in this area. They have each contributed to the development of a knowledge exchange event bring together networks from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. |
| Impact | Knowledge exchange event (outlined in Researchfish): Demystifying Social Prescribing in Men's Sheds: A Cross Nation Event. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Interventions Plus Project: #KindnessByPost: a mixed methods investigation of an innovative participatory public health programme |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are funding this project as part of our Interventions funding call. FEC £46,308.20, network contribution £39,498.70. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They are conducting the funded research. |
| Impact | No outputs yet. Social work, social anthropology, health economics, lived experience, community organisation partner. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Interventions Plus Project: DANCE/CONNECT Applying the social cure approach: an exploration of whether online group dance can support the social and mental wellbeing of young people living with anxiety |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are funding this project as part of our Interventions funding call. FEC £14,012.35, Network contribution £11,966.51 |
| Collaborator Contribution | They are conducting the research. |
| Impact | No outputs yet. Social anthropology, participatory methods, quantitative social sciences, epidemiology, social policy, psychobiology, education, 3rd sector partner. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Interventions Plus Project: Loneliness, mental health and wellbeing: an acceptability and feasibility study of UK Men's Shed. |
| Organisation | University of East Anglia |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We funded this porject as part of our Interventions funding call. FEC £41,028.56, network contribution £32,822.85. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They are conducting the research. |
| Impact | No outputs yet. Health sciences, clinical practice, public health, education, 3rd sector partner. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Interventions Plus Project: Songs from Home: Developing and testing an online songwriting intervention to tackle loneliness and enhance social connections in order to reduce symptoms of postnatal depression |
| Organisation | Royal College of Music (RCM) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are funding this project as part of our Interventions funding call. FEC £46,951, network contribution £37,560.80. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They are conducting the funded research. |
| Impact | No outputs yet. Performance science, music therapy, community organisation partner. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Interventions Plus Project: Testing the success of an intervention to reduce loneliness and increase wellbeing for young people with mild to moderate mental health problems |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are funding this project as part of our Interventions funding call. FEC £48,375.00, Network contribution £39,999.40 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Theya re conducting the research |
| Impact | No outputs yet. Psychology, education, 3rd sector partner, lived experience. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Interventions Plus Project: What is the feasibility of prescribing community gardening to reduce loneliness and improve wellbeing in individuals with mental health problems? |
| Organisation | University of Essex |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We funded this project as part of our Interventions funding call. FEC £48073.42, network contribution £38,458.74. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Theya re conducting the funded research. |
| Impact | No outputs yet. Sports science, health science, 3rd sector collaborator. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting at LSIMHRN event leads to systematic review on loneliness in autistic adults |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Institute of Education (IOE) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | LSIMHRN Bryn Lloyd-Evans helped supervise PhD student in IoE (with lived experience of autism) for systematic review on loneliness in adults with autism - now published. |
| Collaborator Contribution | PhD student in IoE (with lived experience of autism) conducted systematic review on loneliness in adults with autism - now published. |
| Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration between education and social work/psychiatry resulting in peer-reviewed publication first-authored by ECR with relevant lived experience. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Pathways Plus Project: Exploring the effects of loneliness and social isolation on experiences of recovery and relapse in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
| Organisation | University of Bath |
| Department | Department of Psychology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We funded this 12-month Plus Project in our first funding call on pathways between loneliness, social isolation and mental health. FEC: £36,522 Network contribution: £29,217.60 |
| Collaborator Contribution | The research team is conducting the research with lived experience collaborators. |
| Impact | Clinical and health psychology, lived experience No outputs as yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Pathways Plus Project: Investigating whether loneliness is a mechanism that leads to depressive symptoms in older adults who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or have chronic physical health problems |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are funding this 12-month project as part of our Pathways funding call. FEC: £30,706.10 Network contribution: £24,564.88 |
| Collaborator Contribution | They are conducting the research that we have funded. |
| Impact | No outputs/outcomes yet. Epidemiology, lived experience, 3rd sector partner. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Pathways Plus Project: Left on Read: Young people co-producing new ways of thinking and feeling loneliness |
| Organisation | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are funding this12 month project as part of our pathways funding call. FEC: £23,239.21 Network contribution: £19,311.37 |
| Collaborator Contribution | The team of researchers and their 3rd sector collaborator are conducting the research. |
| Impact | No outputs yet. Educational and clinical psychology, art-based participatory approaches, 3rd sector partner. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Pathways Plus Project: Loneliness, social isolation and mental health in farming communities: An analysis of social and cultural factors |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We're funding this 12-month project as part of our Pathways funding call. FEC: £35,494 Network contribution: £29,035 |
| Collaborator Contribution | They are conducting the research. |
| Impact | No outcomes/outputs yet Sociology and third sector partner |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Pathways Plus Project: Pathways between LGBTQ migration, social isolation and mental distress: The temporal-relational-spatial experiences of LGBTQ mental health service-users |
| Organisation | University of Brighton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We funded this 12-month project in our Pathways funding round. FEC: £36,739.00 Network contribution: £29,919.20. The project includes a partnership between academics and a 3rd sector organisation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The research team are conducting the funded research. |
| Impact | No outputs yet. Social psychology, human geographic, 3rd sector partner. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Pathways Plus Project: The relationship between loneliness, social isolation, depression and mother-infant bonding in the perinatal period: a collaborative, mixed methods study (aka Mums Alone: The Perinatal Loneliness Study) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are funding this 10-month project as part of our Pathways funding call. FEC: £36,680.46 Network contribution: £29,334.36 |
| Collaborator Contribution | The research team we funded are conducting the research. |
| Impact | No outputs/outcomes yet. Clinical psychology, Service-User Research, Sociology, Psychiatry |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Scoping Review on Pathways between Loneliness, Social Isolation & Depression |
| Organisation | Brunel University London |
| Department | Brunel Arts |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are leading a scoping review of potential pathways between loneliness/social isolation and depression with a team of early career researchers (ECRs) who are members of LSIMHRN. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ECRs who are part of LSIMHRN and are affiliated with a number of UK and international universities are colaborating on creating a protocol for the scoping review including small teams of ECRs from different univeristies working together to come up with domain-specific search terms. They will also work together to analyse the data and write up the review for publications. |
| Impact | Protocol for the review. Disciplines include neuroscience, cognitive psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, mental health nrusing, occupational therapy, health psychology, applied social sciences, built environment. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Scoping Review on Pathways between Loneliness, Social Isolation & Depression |
| Organisation | City, University of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are leading a scoping review of potential pathways between loneliness/social isolation and depression with a team of early career researchers (ECRs) who are members of LSIMHRN. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ECRs who are part of LSIMHRN and are affiliated with a number of UK and international universities are colaborating on creating a protocol for the scoping review including small teams of ECRs from different univeristies working together to come up with domain-specific search terms. They will also work together to analyse the data and write up the review for publications. |
| Impact | Protocol for the review. Disciplines include neuroscience, cognitive psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, mental health nrusing, occupational therapy, health psychology, applied social sciences, built environment. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Scoping Review on Pathways between Loneliness, Social Isolation & Depression |
| Organisation | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are leading a scoping review of potential pathways between loneliness/social isolation and depression with a team of early career researchers (ECRs) who are members of LSIMHRN. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ECRs who are part of LSIMHRN and are affiliated with a number of UK and international universities are colaborating on creating a protocol for the scoping review including small teams of ECRs from different univeristies working together to come up with domain-specific search terms. They will also work together to analyse the data and write up the review for publications. |
| Impact | Protocol for the review. Disciplines include neuroscience, cognitive psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, mental health nrusing, occupational therapy, health psychology, applied social sciences, built environment. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Scoping Review on Pathways between Loneliness, Social Isolation & Depression |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are leading a scoping review of potential pathways between loneliness/social isolation and depression with a team of early career researchers (ECRs) who are members of LSIMHRN. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ECRs who are part of LSIMHRN and are affiliated with a number of UK and international universities are colaborating on creating a protocol for the scoping review including small teams of ECRs from different univeristies working together to come up with domain-specific search terms. They will also work together to analyse the data and write up the review for publications. |
| Impact | Protocol for the review. Disciplines include neuroscience, cognitive psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, mental health nrusing, occupational therapy, health psychology, applied social sciences, built environment. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Scoping Review on Pathways between Loneliness, Social Isolation & Depression |
| Organisation | Maynooth University |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are leading a scoping review of potential pathways between loneliness/social isolation and depression with a team of early career researchers (ECRs) who are members of LSIMHRN. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ECRs who are part of LSIMHRN and are affiliated with a number of UK and international universities are colaborating on creating a protocol for the scoping review including small teams of ECRs from different univeristies working together to come up with domain-specific search terms. They will also work together to analyse the data and write up the review for publications. |
| Impact | Protocol for the review. Disciplines include neuroscience, cognitive psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, mental health nrusing, occupational therapy, health psychology, applied social sciences, built environment. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Scoping Review on Pathways between Loneliness, Social Isolation & Depression |
| Organisation | University of Derby |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are leading a scoping review of potential pathways between loneliness/social isolation and depression with a team of early career researchers (ECRs) who are members of LSIMHRN. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ECRs who are part of LSIMHRN and are affiliated with a number of UK and international universities are colaborating on creating a protocol for the scoping review including small teams of ECRs from different univeristies working together to come up with domain-specific search terms. They will also work together to analyse the data and write up the review for publications. |
| Impact | Protocol for the review. Disciplines include neuroscience, cognitive psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, mental health nrusing, occupational therapy, health psychology, applied social sciences, built environment. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Scoping Review on Pathways between Loneliness, Social Isolation & Depression |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are leading a scoping review of potential pathways between loneliness/social isolation and depression with a team of early career researchers (ECRs) who are members of LSIMHRN. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ECRs who are part of LSIMHRN and are affiliated with a number of UK and international universities are colaborating on creating a protocol for the scoping review including small teams of ECRs from different univeristies working together to come up with domain-specific search terms. They will also work together to analyse the data and write up the review for publications. |
| Impact | Protocol for the review. Disciplines include neuroscience, cognitive psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, mental health nrusing, occupational therapy, health psychology, applied social sciences, built environment. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Scoping Review on Pathways between Loneliness, Social Isolation & Depression |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are leading a scoping review of potential pathways between loneliness/social isolation and depression with a team of early career researchers (ECRs) who are members of LSIMHRN. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ECRs who are part of LSIMHRN and are affiliated with a number of UK and international universities are colaborating on creating a protocol for the scoping review including small teams of ECRs from different univeristies working together to come up with domain-specific search terms. They will also work together to analyse the data and write up the review for publications. |
| Impact | Protocol for the review. Disciplines include neuroscience, cognitive psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, mental health nrusing, occupational therapy, health psychology, applied social sciences, built environment. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Supervised visiting graduate student from Academisch Medisch Centrum Universiteit van Amsterdam (Amsterdam AMC) |
| Organisation | Academic Medical Center |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A graduate student from Academisch Medisch Centrum Universiteit van Amsterdam (Amsterdam AMC) was supervised for a visiting research placement at UCL supported by the Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health research network to conduct a meta-synthesis of qualitative data on the experience of loneliness in young people with depression (March to July 2019). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The student conducted and published a meta-synthesis of qualitative data on the experience of loneliness in young people with depression. |
| Impact | Published paper: Achterbergh, L., Pitman, A., Birken, M., Pearce, E., Sno, H., & Johnson, S. (2020). The experience of loneliness among young people with depression: a qualitative meta-synthesis of the literature. BMC Psychiatry, 20 (1), ARTN 415. doi:10.1186/s12888-020-02818-3 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Tackling Loneliness Evidence Group |
| Organisation | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Joint network leads, Coordinator, Co-investigators and network members formed expert members of this working group and are co-authors on a reprot identifying research gaps. epartment of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Tackling Loneliness Evidence Group has released a review of what we know about loneliness and the evidence gaps. The authors are all members of LSIMHRN: Pamela Qualter (University of Manchester), Louise Arseneault (King's College London), Manuela Barreto (University of Exeter), Anne-Kathrin Fett (City, University of London), Nancy Hey (What Works Centre for Wellbeing), Sonia Johnson (University College London), Kalpa Kharicha (Campaign to End Loneliness), Timothy Matthews (King's College London), David McDaid (London School of Economics), Eiluned Pearce (University College London), Alexandra Pitman (University College London), and Christina Victor (Brunel University London). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Department of Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) organised and chaired meetings of the evidence group and invited additional members/partners. |
| Impact | This has brought about a collaboration with Hannah Durrant ¦ Hannah Durrant Senior Research Fellow ¦ Uwch Gymrawd Ymchwil Wales Centre for Public Policy ¦ Canolfan Polisi Cyhoeddus Cymru Cardiff University ¦Prifysgol Caerdydd |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Tackling Loneliness Evidence Group |
| Organisation | Wales Centre for Public Policy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Joint network leads, Coordinator, Co-investigators and network members formed expert members of this working group and are co-authors on a reprot identifying research gaps. epartment of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Tackling Loneliness Evidence Group has released a review of what we know about loneliness and the evidence gaps. The authors are all members of LSIMHRN: Pamela Qualter (University of Manchester), Louise Arseneault (King's College London), Manuela Barreto (University of Exeter), Anne-Kathrin Fett (City, University of London), Nancy Hey (What Works Centre for Wellbeing), Sonia Johnson (University College London), Kalpa Kharicha (Campaign to End Loneliness), Timothy Matthews (King's College London), David McDaid (London School of Economics), Eiluned Pearce (University College London), Alexandra Pitman (University College London), and Christina Victor (Brunel University London). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Department of Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) organised and chaired meetings of the evidence group and invited additional members/partners. |
| Impact | This has brought about a collaboration with Hannah Durrant ¦ Hannah Durrant Senior Research Fellow ¦ Uwch Gymrawd Ymchwil Wales Centre for Public Policy ¦ Canolfan Polisi Cyhoeddus Cymru Cardiff University ¦Prifysgol Caerdydd |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Tackling Loneliness Evidence Group |
| Organisation | What Works Centre for Wellbeing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Joint network leads, Coordinator, Co-investigators and network members formed expert members of this working group and are co-authors on a reprot identifying research gaps. epartment of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Tackling Loneliness Evidence Group has released a review of what we know about loneliness and the evidence gaps. The authors are all members of LSIMHRN: Pamela Qualter (University of Manchester), Louise Arseneault (King's College London), Manuela Barreto (University of Exeter), Anne-Kathrin Fett (City, University of London), Nancy Hey (What Works Centre for Wellbeing), Sonia Johnson (University College London), Kalpa Kharicha (Campaign to End Loneliness), Timothy Matthews (King's College London), David McDaid (London School of Economics), Eiluned Pearce (University College London), Alexandra Pitman (University College London), and Christina Victor (Brunel University London). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Department of Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) organised and chaired meetings of the evidence group and invited additional members/partners. |
| Impact | This has brought about a collaboration with Hannah Durrant ¦ Hannah Durrant Senior Research Fellow ¦ Uwch Gymrawd Ymchwil Wales Centre for Public Policy ¦ Canolfan Polisi Cyhoeddus Cymru Cardiff University ¦Prifysgol Caerdydd |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | #mhTV webinar organised by Unite and the Mental Health Nurses Association |
| 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 | Two lived experience researchers and LSIMHRN co-I Bryn Lloyd-Evans were interviewed about our joint LSIMH-Mental Health Policy Research Unity consultation, which involved lived experience researchers interviewing participants with experience of mental health problems about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and loneliness more generally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbhbzhi5y0gwahydbit9FCg?app=desktop |
| Description | 9 LSIMHRN newsletters March 2021-February 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | We send out regular newsletters to our 700+ members, which contact info on events, funding, the latest publications and resources, and opportunities for memebrs to get in touch with each other. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | @Dance_Connect_ twitter channel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | @Dance_Connect_ Twitter channel used to recruit for the Dance/Connect study and share updates on the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/Dance_Connect_ |
| Description | Academic seminar on findings from research into loneliness in farming |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Seminar for members of the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter (primarily academics and postgraduate students). The findings from the research were presented(along with complementary findings from another research project on mental health in farming), followed by a group discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Addressing loneliness in emerging adulthood (16-25 years): What do we know and what do we need to know? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The Loneliness & Social Isolation in Mental Health Research Network (LSIMHRN) and the NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) public mental health programme, in collaboration with TRIUMPH, Emerging Minds and SMaRteN, hosted an online workshop on how to tackle loneliness and social isolation in 16-25 year olds. The workshop brought together young people and individuals from different disciplines and sectors to identify key research areas to tackle loneliness and social isolation in 16-25 year olds, to build on the findings of a survey that ran 25th March-31st May 2021 to identify the key challenges and promising approaches to address lonelines in this age group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Alexandra Pitman interview for Evening Standard |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Network joint-lead Dr Alexandra Pitman gave an interview to Evening Standard journalist and was quoted in his article. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/why-do-men-find-it-so-difficult-to-make-new-friends-... |
| Description | Article for PESI 'Supporting Lonely Clients' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog post by LSIMHRN Co-I Roz Shafran in which she suggests six ways that therapists can help clients who are lonely. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.pesi.co.uk/Blog/2020/October/Supporting-Lonely-Clients |
| Description | Arts, Play, Health: Playful music and musical play. Keynote at the Arts Play Health conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The keynote included reflections on the intersections between arts, music, play, and mental health including evidence of how participatory music enhances wellbeing via social connections. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Australian Association for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Master Clinician webinar series episode 'CBT for chronic loneliness: theory and practice' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | LSIMHRN Co-I Professor Roz Shafran (University College London) and LSIMHRN member Dr Michelle Lim (Swinburne University of Technology) gave a webinar on CBT for chronic loneliness. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.aacbt.org.au/aacbt-online-events/loneliness-may-2020/ |
| Description | Blog on Campaign to End Loneliness Website on the relationship between neighbourhood features and loneliness |
| 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 | A blog published by Loneliness and Social Isolation Network Lead Alexandra Pitman on the Campaign to End Loneliness website summarising research on the relationship between neigbourhood characteristics and loneliness |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/can-changes-to-features-of-the-local-neighbourhood-improve-l... |
| Description | Blog on research into loneliness in farming |
| 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 | Blog discussing research findings from the project "Loneliness and social isolation in farming communities: An analysis of social and cultural factors". Audience reach and impacts currently unknown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/pathways-plus-projects-blog-matt-lobley |
| Description | Blog on the research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a blog written on the Mums Alone research study which aimed to disseminate the research findings more widely. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/news/2021/nov/mums-alone |
| Description | Blog: Exploring the effects of loneliness and social isolation on experiences of recovery and relapse in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. |
| 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 co-produced Blog written by Josie Millar and Lucy Clarkson (collaborator with personal experience of OCD) on the research aims, method and findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Built environment & loneliness tweetchat |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Tweetchat focused on the question 'How does the built environment impact on loneliness in people with mental health problems?' hosted by Network co-investigator Evangelia Chrysikou. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Campaign to End Loneliness's Loneliness Beyond Covid-19 international conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to speak on the panel 'What works in managing loneliness in young adults and how can we better measure impact?' at the Campaign to End Loneliness's Loneliness Beyond Covid-19 international conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.lonelinessconnectsus.org/blog/thinking-loneliness-beyond-the-individual |
| Description | Catalogue of Mental Health Measures webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In our webinar on 20th January 2021, Louise Arseneault, ESRC Mental Health Leadership Fellow, and her colleague Bridget Bryan, demonstrated the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures, a platform designed to provide easy access to information about the mental health measures included in British cohort and longitudinal studies. After providing some background they led us in a practical exercise highlighting cohorts with measures of social isolation, loneliness and mental health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/SNc-fOQUtEg |
| Description | Catalyst Seminar Series in Children and Young People's Mental Health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On 10th March 2021 we ran a webinar on loneliness and mental health in young people as part of the UCL Catalyst seminar series, which is intended to spark fresh thinking and debate, featuring cutting-edge UCL research relevant for children and young people's mental health and facilitating new connections between scientists working in different disciplines. Four speakers from LSIMHRN gave 10-minute talks covering qualitative psychological, quantitative epidemiological, and clinically relevant approaches. These were followed by short responses from a panel representing clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, epidemiology and health care, and lived experience expertise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Co-production group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of project plans and discussion of plans that was used to shape the development of the research project and outcomes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Conference Presentation- Oral presentation and poster presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We are presenting our research findings via oral presentation and poster presentation at the 4th International Social Prescribing Network Conference on 11th and 12th March 2022. Impact is currently unkown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.socialprescribingnetwork.com/conference |
| Description | Conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation: "We care but we're not carers": Perceptions and Understanding of Social Prescribing in UK Men's Sheds. As part of the 4th International Social Prescribing Network Conference 2022. Conference has international reach and is attended by a range of professionals who work with voluntary and community-based organisations like Men's Sheds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a presentation at The Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology (SRIP) International Conference on the findings of the Mums Alone research study. This is an annual event designed to consolidate and disseminate research of practical relevance to all those whose work is directly or indirectly influenced by reproductive science and to foster truly multidisciplinary research and professional practice. The conference was attended by individuals working in psychology, healthcare, midwifery, nursing, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, psychiatry, social work, sociology, anthropology, and epidemiology. Attendees listened to the presentation and had a chance to ask questions and engage in discussion about the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Connecting in the Community webinars x2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In the lead up to our second funding call on Interventions, we ran a series of events to identify the gaps, promising areas and research priorities in different approaches to reducing loneliness, social isolation and mental health problems, both in the general population and for people with exisiting mental health problems. In our first two events held on 13th and 20th of May 2020, we partnered with the Mental Elf to explore how to improve social connection and mental health in the general population. The first webinar focused on the role of digital technology and the built environment in reducing loneliness, social isolation and mental health problems in the community. Short talks were given by academics (including Network Co-Investigators John Vines and Laura Vaughan) and third sector representatives (Wavelength) and practitioners (The Loneliness Lab, The Human Metric Lab, Urban Scale Interventions). Invited speakers who were not already Network members were invited to join (e.g. Austin Toombs from Purdue University, USA). Talks were followed by Q&A sessions on knowledge gaps, promising areas and research priorities. The second webinar included short talks on community approaches to reducing loneliness, social isolation and mental health problems, which were given by invited academic and third sector speakers, some of whom were already Network members and others who are now Network members as a result of contributing to the event. After the talks and a Q&A section, we split into smaller break-out rooms to have small-group discussions on research gaps, promising areas and research priorities in relation to multi-faceted approaches to reducing loneliness and social isolation in order to prevent mental health problems in the general population. These were facilitated by Network Co-Investigators, who also took notes and fed back key points to the larger group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Contribution to Coray video on loneliness |
| 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 | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | LSIMHRN members contributed to the Emerging Minds Network's Co-RAY project, designed to develop resources to support young people's mental health in COVID-19. Our network contributed to the video on "feeling lonely, disconnected and isolated". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://emergingminds.org.uk/co-ray-evidence-informed-briefings/ |
| Description | Contribution to Meet the Street at Christmas TV series |
| 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 | Network coordinator/research fellow Ellie Pearce was interviewed for BBC series about choirs as a way to alleviate loneliness. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2019/51/meet-the-street-at-christmas-e1 |
| Description | Conversations around loneliness and mental health: What helps and what to do if it doesn't booklet |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In 2020 a group of researchers, including those with relevant lived experience, from the UKRI Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health Research Network and the NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit at University College London and King's College London interviewed 59 people to explore what it is like to be lonely or socially isolated if you also struggle with your mental health. As part of the interviews, we asked people what (if anything) had helped them feel less lonely and we have co-produced a booklet to share their words with the general public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/sites/psychiatry/files/conversations_around_lonelines_mental_health... |
| Description | Cross-network Workshops for Early Career Researchers interested in mental health research x2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Loneliness & Social Isolation in Mental Health Research Network is one of 8 UKRI-funded Mental Health Research Networks. Based on the priorities from a cross-network survey led by the Closing the Gap Network, the coordination team for the 8 Mental Health Research Networks organised a free 2-part event series in November and December 2020, bringing together researchers from across the networks to provide proactive advice on applying to and securing mental health research funding, career development, and networking. We define Early Career Researchers very broadly to include graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in and outside academia. The first event focused on funding and the second on networking and career development. LSIMHRN was involved in initial discussions about these events and LSIMHRN ECRs attended these events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Cross-network event: Talk on funding to Early Career Researchers in all 8 UKRI-funded mental health research networks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | LSIMHRN coordinator gave a talk on 'top tips' for applying for funding to ECRs as well as outlining opportunities for ECRs to get involved in network activities. Two ECRs who are PIs on plus projects funded by LSIMHRN also gave talks on their experiences and advice to others thinking of applying to similar funding calls. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Dance/Connect funding workshop at Trinity Laban |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Katey Warran spoke at the VIII Annual Dance Science Networking and Careers Day at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance about applying for funding and delivering the Dance/Connect study as well as experiences of being an ECR. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Dance/Connect website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Website set up for Dance/Connect study including information about the research, blog, information about joining the research as a participant, and contact details. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.dance-connect.co.uk |
| Description | Demystifying Social Prescribing in Men's Sheds: A Cross Nation Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | As a result of the collaboration with Wexford Institute of Technology and Glasgow Caledonian University, this event brought together Shed members and professionals involved in Social Prescribing from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England in an online workshop. Findings from this project were disseminated, speakers from existing social prescribing networks presented and a panel discussion was held with representation from Shed members, social prescribers and academics. 160 people registered to attend the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Dr Eiluned Pearce interviewed for Nordic Cuddle blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Eiluned Pearce wrote responses to interview questions for a blog post by Network members Nordic Cuddle, a therapy business, talking about her research into social relationships. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.nordiccuddle.com/post/nordic-cuddle-interviews-dr-ellie-pearce-research-fellow |
| Description | ECR workshop on Pathways state-of-the-art review |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The aim of this event was to bring together Network ECRs in a joint project, namely a collaborative state-of-the-art review on the potential pathways between loneliness, social isolation and mental health. We collated a list of potential pathways/underlying factors from the workshop events in June and July 2019 described above. We have worked on developing these into a diagram depicting these potential pathways, and to search the existing research literature to assess whether there is already evidence for/against these pathways/factors. This will then be publicised to help network members identify gaps for future research. We have encouraged the participation of ECRs so that that they each bring their area of expertise to bear on the review, to elucidate particular pathways that together will create a clear overall picture of the interacting factors. Through working together on this review, we hope that ECRs will gain skills in review methods, create collaborations that last beyond the project, and will become co-authors on the resulting paper. We will ensure that the ECRs concerned understand that involvement is voluntary and we will agree authorship rules for the group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | ENMESH Symposium 'DEVELOPING INTERVENTIONS FOR LONELINESS IN MENTAL HEALTH' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Symposium on developing interventions for loneliness in mental health with the following speakers: LSIMHRN joint-lead Sonia Johnson, Brynmor Lloyd-Evans (LSIMHRN Co-I), Dora Stefanidou, Vanessa Pinfold (McPin Foundation, bringing a lived experience perspective), Khulood Alasmawi. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.enmesh.eu/Enmesh_Conferences.html |
| Description | Engagement with users of the YAWS service at GAMH |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Two of the researchers consulted with a small group of approximately 8 users of the YAWS *(Young adults wellbeing service) service offered by GAMH (Glasgow Association of Mental Health) on the goals, materials, and procedures for the evaluation this Plus project aims to do of this same service. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Facilitated online dialogue about dance for wellbeing, drawing on Dance/Connect research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Online event on 27/10/2021 as part of the Arts Play Health Network to discuss dance for health research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/Katey_W/status/1453394048849379331 |
| Description | Five blogs on 3 Network events and 2 related events organised/attended by Network members |
| 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 | We supported the writing of five blogs that are hosted on our website: (1) Network early career researcher Vasiliki Tzouvara wrote a blog on the Network event 'Understanding loneliness among people with mental health problems: What I took from the UKRI Loneliness & Social Isolation in Mental Health Research Network workshop on 26th June 2019' (2) A member of the Network Co-Production Group wrote a blog on 'Mapping the Pathways: Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health: A workshop for Network members, July 2019' (3) Network early career researcher Molly Bird wrote a blog on the Network Showcase Symposium event in January 2020 (4) Network early career researcher Alex Vickery attended the Future Roots/Countrymen conference on behalf of the Network and wrote a blog about her experiences (5) Network early career researcher Lara McNally wrote a blog about a Parental Loneliness stakeholder event organised by Network member Rebecca Nowland at the University of Central Lancashire |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | GAMH website and twitter |
| 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 | Information about research added to GAMH twitter has 1745 follower and YAWS twitter has 461 followers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Gemma Lewis path projects blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog to describe results from two studies investigating the associations between loneliness and depression |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/pathways-plus-projects-blog-gemma-lewis |
| Description | Harmless National Self-Harm and Suicide Prevention Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Alexandra Pitman gave Oral online presentation: The contribution of loneliness to self-harm and suicidal behaviour 1 March 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://harmless.org.uk/tag/from-harm-to-hope/ |
| Description | How arts engagement can support social connectedness: Results from the HEartS Survey. Presentation at ICMPC-ESCOM2021. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Co-I Rosie Perkins gave a talk focused on results from the HEartS Survey showing how the arts support social connectedness, and included discussion between the presenter and the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Instagram for dance_connect_ucl |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Instagram page for the Dance/Connect study, used primarily to support recruitment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.instagram.com/dance_connect_ucl/ |
| Description | Interview for World Sleep day: This is how feeling lonely is affecting your slumber - Women's Health magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article 'World Sleep day: This is how feeling lonely is affecting your slumber', by Stacey Carter in Women's Health magazine, March 2021, includes interview with LSIMHRN member Farhana Mann. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.womenshealthmag.com/uk/health/sleep/a35882685/loneliness-sleep/ |
| Description | Interview with ABC radio 'All in the Mind' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Coordinator Ellie Pearce interviewed for an episode of 'All in the Mind' for ABC, Australia, about her research into social bonding in adult education classes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/learning-new-skills-is-good-for-you/13446... |
| Description | Interview with FiveThirtyEight |
| 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 | Coordinator Ellie Pearce was interviewed by the US-based media platform FiveThirtyEight about her research on singing and social bonding for a video exploring karaoke during th COVID19 pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/a-year-without-karaoke/ |
| Description | Invited talk at the Australian National University on loneliness and mental health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | LSIMHRN joint-lead Prof Sonia Johnson gave an invited talk on loneliness and mental health and a commentary was provided by Australian social researcher, Hugh Mackay. The presentation and discussion was be followed by a Q&A session facilitated by hosts, Prof Luis Salvador-Carulla and Dr Elizabeth Moore. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://rsph.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/loneliness-and-mental-health |
| Description | Invited talk at the Birmingham Institute of Mental Health - Prof. Sonia Johnson: Is loneliness a good target for interventions in mental health? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Joint-lead of LSIMHRN Sonia Johnson gave an invited talk in which she described some approaches to loneliness in mental health contexts, and introduced the work of the UKRI Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health network and the opportunities offered, aimed at achieving a step change in research in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/news-events/2019/06November-Talk-by-Prof.-Sonia-John... |
| Description | Key Note Presentation at the OCD-UK National Annual Conference attended by people experiencing OCD nationally and internationally. Presented by Josie Millar and a collaborator with personal experience. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Attendees at the presentation asked questions about managing Loneliness and Social Isolation in relation to their OCD in general, and within the contexts of COVID-19 and in relation to relapse prevention of OCD. Thus the clinical implications of the research were being delivered directly to those for whom the research was conducted to help. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ocduk.org/conference/conferences-across-the-uk/2021-virtual/main/ |
| Description | Keynote at the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists Spring Conference at Kings College London 'Loneliness and Mental Health - is there a missed opportunity to intervene?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | LSIMHRN joint-lead Sonia Johnson gave a Keynote at the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists Spring Conference at Kings College London on 12th April 2019 entitled 'Loneliness and Mental Health - is there a missed opportunity to intervene?'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Keynote talk at MQ conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | LSIMHRN joint-PI Sonia Johnson gave a keynote talk at the annual MQ conference, which was followed by a symposium focusing on loneliness and included talks from LSIMHRN members Pam Qualter, Tim Matthews and Luc Goossens. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Kindness-by-post research paper covered in Elle France |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Research paper "'Kindness by Post': A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Participatory Public Mental Health Project" covered by Elle France. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.elle.fr/Love-Sexe/News/Soyez-gentils-c-est-bon-pour-la-sante-3992393 |
| Description | Kindness-by-post research paper covered in Psychology Today |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Research paper "'Kindness by Post': A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Participatory Public Mental Health Project" covered in a blog in Psychology Today. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/meaningfull/202202/inexpensive-way-increase-well-being |
| Description | Kindness-by-post research paper covered in Stylist (UK) |
| 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 | Research paper "'Kindness by Post': A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Participatory Public Mental Health Project" covered in a blog in Stylist (UK). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.stylist.co.uk/health/mental-health/random-acts-of-kindness-wellbeing-benefits/624435 |
| Description | Knowledge Exchange workshop on alleviating loneliness through dance/music |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Eiluned Pearce was invited to an interdsciplinary and cross-sector workshop exploring dance/music as a way to prevent and alleviate loneliness. She led a session on 'What is loneliness?' outlining research into different types/dimensions of loneliness, the measures commonly used and the different approaches to interventions used so far. The knowledge exchange workshop involved 2 music/dance therapists, 2 professional dancers/representatives of a theatre company and 1 non-professional dancer, a work experience student from the theatre company, 2 volunteers from a third sector organisation, 3 researchers (2 postdoctoral researchers including Eiluned, and a PhD student) looking at arts and health or music and social bonding, and a composer who will work with the theatre compnay dancers to create a new production around loneliness. The aim of the workshop was to explore the possibility of future research collaborations (possibly involving application to the Network's Interventions funding call). Eiluned also supported the early career researcher Dr Bronwyn Tarr to apply for the grant to support this work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/moving-together-alleviating-loneliness-through-an-interdisciplinary... |
| Description | LSIMHRN Co-Production Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | We regularly meet with our Co-Production Group of 12 individuals with lived experience of loneliness, social isolation and/or mental ill-health, either themselves and/or as carers. The CoG have been involved in planning and presenting at internal and external events, consulting on and reviewing funding applications to our Plus Project Calls, and as peer researchers in a co-produced consulation about the experience of loneliness for people also experiencing mental ill-health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | LSIMHRN Twitter feed @UCL_Loneliness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 4,949 Followers. We regularly update with e.g. info about network events, funding opportunities and comment on the latest research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/UCL_Loneliness?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofil... |
| Description | LSIMHRN slack channel |
| 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 | The LSIMHRN Slack channel has 163 members (as of February 2021). This workspace was originally set-up to allow parties interested in applying to the Interventions funding call to find collaborators. There are 6 special interest channels on #arts, #built environment, #digital, #community and at risk groups, #young people # older people. The topics of these groups were identified through webinars we ran in May and June 2020, after which we put members in touch via email. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://join.slack.com/t/ukrilonelinessnetwork/shared_invite/zt-fvjdr5k1-75i0MxLskCcPlsF~dY5B1Q |
| Description | Launch of the Charter for Wellbeing in Craft and DIY |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Porter was invited to attend the launch of the Charter at the House of Commons in March 2022, findings from this project were used to inform presentations at the event. The event was attended by UKMSA, MPs and policy makers, organisations and business in craft and DIY and Shed members of the Health and Wellbeing Committee. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://menssheds.org.uk/charter-for-wellbeing-in-craft-and-diy/ |
| Description | Loneliness and Social Isolation Research Network Launch Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Event to launch the network and engage potential network members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health Cross-Discplinary Research Network Summer Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We held a network summer showcase via Zoom, attended at various points by around 300 people. This included presentations from all Plus Project award holders in our networks, with a range of other presentations on cutting edge research in this field, as well as from policy makers and people with relevant lived experience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Loneliness and the human mind: Perspectives from science, politics and art |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Royal Society of Medicine webinar on Loneliness and the human mind: Perspectives from science, politics and art featuring talks by LSIMHRN leads Sonia Johnson and Alexandra Pitman. Chaired by Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones, President Psychiatry Section. Panel included: Nigel Huddleston, Minister for Loneliness; Seema Kennedy, Board Member, Ofwat. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/psychiatry/2021-22/pyq62/ |
| Description | Loneliness in Lockdown Gathering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Loneliness in Lockdown Gathering online event wasorganised by LSIMRHN Pathways Plus Project funding recipient James Duggan. The event was for researchers, practitioners and anyone with an interest in how the COVID-19 Lockdowns have affected mental health and feelings of loneliness and isolation. The event included 10 presentations from cutting-edge research projects including from LSIMHRN members. Coordinator Ellie Pearce and a Co-Production Group member presented preliminary findings from the consultation on experiences of loneliness in people also experiencing mental ill-health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Loneliness in Lockdown Gathering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 29th April, I hosted an online conference on loneliness during lockdown. There were 10 academic presentations, one of which was on the Left on Read project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.lonelinessconnectsus.org/blog/lonelinessgathering |
| Description | Loneliness in the time of Covid. Have we got a fuller picture? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | We were delighted to collaborate with the Closing the Gap and MARCH networks to hold a webinar 3-4.15pm on 25th May. Members of our 3 networks gave brief presentations about 3 independent research studies exploring loneliness in the general population and in specific demographic groups including people with experience of mental ill-health, with severe mental illness (bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and psychosis) and young people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | MHQT on social prescribing |
| 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 | Network joint lead Professor Sonia Johnson chaired a Mental Health Question Time session on social prescribing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeB6fb_ssvY&list=PLSKM2Zm6MngLis9TTuyzLy8mqdstJWIIl&index=2&t=0s |
| Description | Mapping the Pathways: Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The aim of the event was to use the collective expertise of the Network to identify potential pathways and common underlying factors in relation to loneliness, social isolation and mental health. To contextualise the day, the Network coordinators/Research Fellows gave an overview of an umbrella view looking at epidemiological reviews on associations between loneliness and different mental health disorders. Two epidemiologists from the Network commented on the umbrella review and identified gaps for future research. We then invited short talks from Network co-investigators and members from a number of different disciplines to give their ideas on potential pathways or common underlying factors, in order to stimulate discussion. These included cognitive/neuroscience, psychological, epidemiological and built environment perspectives. After the talks we had two discussion group sessions (and a networking lunch), the first discussion on 'Why might people who are lonely or social isolated tend to develop mental health problems (and why may loneliness/social isolation make it harder to recover)?' and the second on 'Why are high rates of loneliness/social isolation found among people with mental health problems? Are there pathways from one to the other that could explain this?'. Each table had a facilitator and a note-taker. These notes were combined with those taken at the June event to create a list of potential research questions that fed into our first funding call and were provided as resources for potential applicants. The format of short talks to facilitate discussion followed by small group discussion worked well and generated many ideas for why loneliness/social isolation is statistically associated with mental health problems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Mental Elf blog by Network early career researcher Dr Laurie Hare-Duke |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We invited Laurie to write a blog on a recent paper about psychosis and loneliness for the Mental Elf. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.nationalelfservice.net/populations-and-settings/loneliness/loneliness-psychosis-continuu... |
| Description | Mental Elf blog, video and podcast: Can reducing loneliness help to alleviate or prevent anxiety or depression in young people? #ActiveIngredientsMH |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In the first half of the mental elf blog, LSIMHRN member Anton Kall writes about a study investigating mindfulness as a way to reduce loneliness. In the second half of the blog, LSIMHRN coordinator Ellie Pearce reports on the review she led, funded by the Wellcome Trust, on loneliness as an active ingredient in interventions to prevent or alleviate anxiety and depression in young people. The blog includes a 2-minute video created by one of the lived experience leads which aims to explain the project to young people, and a podcast interview with Ellie about the review. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.nationalelfservice.net/populations-and-settings/loneliness/can-reducing-loneliness-help-... |
| Description | Mental Elf podcast - Lived Experience #IoMHconf2021 |
| 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 | Podcast on "Co-production on the PRU Covid interviews project: what we did" and reflections from lived experience researchers including a member of the network Co-Porduction Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/national-elf-service/lived-experience-research?in=national-elf-service/sets/i... |
| Description | Mental Elf podcasts for Network Showcase Symposium |
| 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 | The Mental Elf provided live twitter coverage for our Showcase Symposium event and as part of this created podcast interviews with three of our speakers about their research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/national-elf-service/sets/mhloneliness |
| Description | Mental Health Awareness Videos |
| 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 | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Several members of the Loneliness and Social Isolation Network were involved in creating videos for Mental Health Awareness Week 2022, whose theme was loneliness |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Mental Health Question Time on Loneliness |
| 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 | As part of the Network launch a mental health question time (MHQT) on loneliness was recorded with an expert panel and live audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwT1EHGy2dM |
| Description | Monthly Network Newsletters |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We send a monthly newsletter to Network members, which also gets forwarded to their contacts and often results in new members signing up. The Newsletter contains information about our (and other relevant) events and funding calls, as well as other opportunities for engaging with loneliness/social isolation and mental health activities and research, recent publications (research papers and reports, media articles, blogs, resources) and a summary of recent Network activities. We also have a 'community spotlight' section to highlight the work of community organisation members of the Network, and a 'creating contacts' section where members can make requests to find collaborators for research. To give one example, a researcher requested to include a message in the newsletter inviting contact from other members interested in workplace loneliness and received two responses - they are in an ongoing exchange about potential research collaborations. We also included an advert on behalf of a resilience research group, which received several requests for membership via the newsletter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | NIHR alert on research paper looking at depression and loneliness in older adults |
| 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 | The NIHR created an evidence alert aimed at clinicians reporting on findings from a paper co-authored by network members, led by Gemma Lewis. Lee SL, and others. The association between loneliness and depressive symptoms among adults aged 50 years and older: a 12-year population-based cohort study. The Lancet Psychiatry 2021;8:1 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/loneliness-strongly-linked-depression-older-adults/ |
| Description | Network Showcase Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We invited Network members to submit abstracts for talks and/or posters and accepted 16 speakers to give short talks (10 minutes plus 5 minutes questions). These covered a broad range of topics and disciplines, and some of the presentation slides can be found here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/loneliness-and-social-isolation-25. The format of the day worked really well (4 sessions of 4 talks each) and delegates seemed to really take the opportunity to network over tea and lunch, and to look at the posters. Informal feedback was generally very enthusiastic, and there was a great sense of the energy and range of approaches and interests in the Network coming together. There was also good engagement on twitter through coverage from the Mental Elf. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Online conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Inclusion in the following online conference (including the pallet created for the event) led by Kings College London: Young people, mental health and wellbeing - Exploring creative approaches and collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Panel for Oxford science & ideas festival for premiere of short film Moving Together |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | LSIMHRN coordinator Ellie Pearce joined a panel as a quest expert in loneliness to discuss the collaborative research project 'Moving together: Alleviating loneliness through an interdisciplinary music- and dance-based intervention programme' and to watch the short film made as part of the project. Other panel members included the PI (ECR who is a member of LSIMHRN), the composer, the director of the film and dance company members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7M-cDDzNX0&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | Panel member at the Great Exhibition Road Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Rosie Perkins was a panel member at the Great Exhibition Road Festival, October 2020, discussing how the arts enhance mental and social wellbeing. Preliminary results were shared from an in-prep publication on how the arts support social connections, reporting on over 4,000 qualitative responses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/-SOnaeKqerY |
| Description | Part of presentation to the World Health Organization |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Talked about Dance/Connect as part of a panel session at the WHO Collaborating Centre Regional Meeting (online). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Pathways funding call workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The aim of this event was to provide information on the Pathways funding call and to provide opportunities for potential applicants to form collaborations, particularly between disciplines and across sectors (e.g. academics with third sector). We also wanted to provide the opportunity for applicants to understand how to incorporate lived experience perspectives into their applications. We started with a networking lunch, followed by 3 talks giving information on (1) the scope of the call, (2) a member of the Co-Production Group (CoG) gave a presentation on involving lived experience perspectives, (3) the practicalities of applying. Afterwards there were two sets of table discussions around topics of common interest, which aimed to facilitate the creation of collaborations for the call. The delegates were grouped into these tables for the first discussion group in advance using keywords given at registration, and the discussion groups involved different disciplines and sectors. For the second set of discussions, delegates were free to move to different tables and could add their own topics of interest. In reflecting on this event in co-investigator and co-production group meetings, as well as in discussion with a third sector member of the Network, the need for more targeted matching for funding calls has been raised, perhaps through facilitated 'speed-dating'. Feedback from CoG members about the event was extremely positive: they enjoyed the opportunity to explain patient & public involvement to researchers, particularly since they sensed that many researchers lacked confidence in this. The CoG members felt that researchers had really engaged with them. Four of the applications to our call involve CoG members as co-applicants, and these collaborations arose from this workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Plus Project led by Manuela Barreto added to Glasgow City Health & Social Care Partnership newsletter 'Partnerships Matters Briefings' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Information about research added to GCHSCP newsletter 'Partnerships Matters Briefings'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Plus Project led by Manuela Barreto disseminated to Council for Voluntary Sector (GCVS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Information about research added to Everyone's Children Newsletter & Public Protection Bulletin (GCVS). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Plus Project led by Manuela Narreto presented to South Child ad Youth Metal Health Improvement Meetings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of research at South Child ad Youth Metal Health Improvement Meetings. Link added to Snippet Mental Health Improvement Team Snippet of research at Health Improvement Meetings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Podcast for the Mental Health Nurses Association |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | LSIMHRN joint-lead Sonia Johnson was interviewed for a podcast on loneliness and mental health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Tz5WAwww0ysPBpkWFZ9xF |
| Description | Podcast with charity No Panic about mental health & loneliness |
| 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 | LSIMHRN Coordinator Ellie Pearce spoke to the charity No Panic about mental health & loneliness. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJRIVG1jIXw |
| Description | Presentation at StreetGames: Loneliness and Young People - why are we not talking about it? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We presented the Left on Read research to the StreetGames online conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.lonelinessconnectsus.org/blog/streetgames-loneliness-and-young-people-why-are-we-not-tal... |
| Description | Presentation at inaugural Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation titled "Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing: A Whistle-stop Tour of Research at the RCM" was presented on 12 Jan 2022 as part of the inaugural Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing event hosted online by the Royal College of Music. c. 50 international practitioners, researchers, and members of the public attended, and within the event plans were drawn for a second meeting. The presentation included a summary of preliminary findings from the "Songs from Home" project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://performancescience.ac.uk/parentalwellbeing/ |
| Description | Presentation at the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies - Exploring the impact of loneliness and social isolation on experiences of recovery and relapse in OCD |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk presenting work commissioned as Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health Research Network Plus Project to professional conference by Dr Josie Millar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://babcp2022.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Programme-ScheduleSaturday.pdf |
| Description | Presentation to international practitioner group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation titled "Music and Parental Mental Wellbeing: Research at the RCM" was presented, including a summary of "Songs from Home" preliminary results, as part of the Carnegie Hall "Lullaby Project Convening" on 14 January 2022. It was delivered online to an international audience of c. 30 practitioners, resulting in discussion, questions, and invitations to future networking events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Programs/Lullaby-Project |
| Description | Presentation to the National Centre for Integrative Medicine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation entitled "The role of the arts in healthcare: Evidence on how music can support parental mental wellbeing" was given on 4 March 2022 at the National Centre for Integrative Medicine's Integrative Healthcare Forum "Integrative Approaches to Pregnancy and Birth: New ways of bringing life into the world". The online presentation was prerecorded and delivered to a UK-based audience of practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Press release |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was issued by UEA with reach to local and national news outlets: 28-09-2021 Daily Mirror (CirculaOon : 333731) Researchers at UEA are launching a new project to see how 'Men's Sheds' can improve mental health and loneliness. Lead researcher Dr Bryony Porter (HSC) quoted. Spending hours in a shed is good for a man's health 27-09-2021 Mirror Online Researchers at UEA are launching a new project to see how 'Men's Sheds' can improve mental health and loneliness. Lead researcher Dr Bryony Porter (HSC) quoted. 'How unique sheds are helping men's mental health and fighting loneliness across Britain' 06-07-2021 Eastern Daily Press (EDP) (CirculaOon : 31514) HSC research. Norfolk study to look to benefits of men's sheds in tackling isolation 05-07-2021 Norwich Evening News (CirculaOon : 4097) Researchers at UEA are launching a new project to see how 'Men's Sheds' can improve mental health and loneliness. Lead researcher Dr Bryony Porter (HSC) quoted. Norfolk study to look at benefits of men's sheds in tackling isolation 04-07-2021 Eastern Daily Press (EDP) (Online) Researchers at UEA are launching a new project to see how 'Men's Sheds' can improve mental health and loneliness. Lead researcher Dr Bryony Porter (HSC) quoted. Norfolk study to look to benefits of men's sheds in combating isolation Simon Parkin 04-07-2021 Norwich Evening News (Online) Researchers at UEA are launching a new project to see how 'Men's Sheds' can improve mental health and loneliness. Lead researcher Dr Bryony Porter (HSC) quoted. Norfolk study to look to benefits of men's sheds in combating isolation 02-07-2021 Greatest Hits Radio (Grimsby) Researchers at UEA are launching a new project to see how 'Men's Sheds' can improve mental health and loneliness. Lead researcher Dr Bryony Porter (HSC) quoted. The University of East Anglia to research into the benefit of Men's Sheds 01-07-2021 homecare.co.uk Researchers at UEA are launching a new project to see how 'Men's Sheds' can improve mental health and loneliness. Lead researcher Dr Bryony Porter (HSC) quoted. With engagement details for each post below: LinkedIn: Impressions: 3751 Clicks: 42 Reactions: 19 Shares: 4 Facebook: Impressions: 9148 Engagements: 149 Twitter: Impressions: 5717 Engagements: 65 This led to engagement with the research project and subsequent requests for discussion about the project with other organisations or individuals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uea.ac.uk%2Fnews%2F-%2Farticle... |
| Description | Press release to disseminate findings from research on loneliness in farming |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press release to local, national and farming-specific media outlets to disseminate key findings from the research. This resulted in one national radio interview (BBC Radio4 Farming Today), one local radio interview (BBC Radio Devon), one regional TV interview (BBC SW Spotlight), and one podcast interview (Farmers Weekly), as well as written articles on a number of local, regional and national news sites, including BBC News online. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-59319869 |
| Description | Professor Sonia Johnson talk at Campaign to End Loneliness policy & research hub meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Professor Sonia Johnson gave a talk presenting the findings of the Community Navigators Project research, which co-produced an intervention for social isolation and loneliness for people with severe anxiety and depression at a Campaign to End Loneliness (a third sector organisation) event on social prescribing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.campaigntoendloneliness.org/blog/how-can-social-prescribing-help-tackle-loneliness/ |
| Description | Q&A webinar for Interventions Funding Call |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | This webinar was open to anyone interested in applying to the Interventions Funding Call. The event consisted of two short talks giving information about the call and good practice in Patient and Public Involvement (given by a CoG member), and breakout rooms to allow attendees to ask questions about the call. These breakout rooms were facilitated by the network joint-leads and co-investigators took notes of Q&As, which were added to our FAQs. CoG members also attended to answer questions on PPI. Informal feedback suggested that attendees found the event useful in preparing their applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Research Zone Podcast on loneliness |
| 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 | Coordinator Ellie Pearce spoke about her research on addressing loneliness in 16-24 year olds for The Research Zone podcast hosted by Lizzie Mitchell, who is an expert by experience and aims to make make mental health research accessible for young people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/loneliness-with-ellie/id1588635511?i=1000548442884 |
| Description | Strategies for encouraging psychological and emotional resilience in response to loneliness stakeholder event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The purpose of the event was to get feedback from stakeholders on preliminary results for a report on psychological interventions for loneliness commissioned by the Campaign to End Loneliness. The all-day event comprised a series of talks from research experts as well as presentaiton of the preliminary report results, and small-group discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Symposium at the International Congress of Psychiatrists 'Loneliness & mental health problems in diverse groups' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'Loneliness and mental health problems in diverse groups' symposium was chaired by LSIMHRN joint-lead and talks were given by network members: Chair: Professor Sonia Johnson, Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry, UCL Division of Psychiatry; Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust 'Loneliness and mental health problems in adults: isolating the evidence' Dr Farhana Mann, Wellcome Clinical Research Training Fellow, UCL Division of Psychiatry 'Lonely young adults in modern Britain: findings from an epidemiological cohort study Dr Tim Matthews, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London 'The relationship between loneliness and socio-demographic and clinical factors: comparison between people with borderline intellectual functioning and the general population.' Dr Afia Ali, Clinical Associate Professor, UCL Division of Psychiatry; Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, North East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/events/congress/ic19-full-programme-v3.pdf?sfvrsn=d48d... |
| Description | Talk at Italian Society for Social Psychiatry/Milan-Bicocca University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Around 150 people, mostly clinicians or researchers, attended this event in Milan, an environment in which considerations of loneliness are not as yet very familiar to clinicians. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.unimib.it/eventi/vite-delle-persone-schizofrenia-metropoli?fbclid=IwAR2isXudk-xdlroiWp6X... |
| Description | Talk to Oxford Mental Health Campaigners for Change by Dr Eiluned Pearce |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Dr Eiluned Pearce was invited to speak to the Oxford Mental Health Campaigners for Change Group (https://www.rethink.org/help-in-your-area/support-groups/oxford-mental-health-campaigners-for-change/) about research into loneliness, social isoaltion and mental health, alongside a representative of a local charity working to alleviate loneliness, The Archway Foundation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk to Oxford University Nightline 50th Anniversary Conference on Loneliness and mental health in young people |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sonia Johnson (Loneliness and social isolation in mental health network lead) gave a talk to current and past members of Oxford University Nightliners, including many practitioners and some policy makers, on the impacts of loneliness on young people's mental health, especially students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://oxford.nightline.ac.uk/fifty |
| Description | Tweetchat on Digital technology & loneliness/social isolation in mental health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Tweetchat on Digital technology & loneliness/social isolation in mental health, hosted by Network co-investigator John Vines |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Tweetchat on Eating Disorders and Loneliness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Tweetchat on 'Researching Eating Disorders and Loneliness: what questions do we need to ask?' hosted by: Network members Lorna Collins (lived experience researcher) and Francesca Solmi (Early Career Researcher) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | UCL Institute of Mental Health podcast on loneliness & 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 | Network coordinators, co-investigators and a member of the Network Co-Production took part in podcast interviews and discussion on loneliness and mental health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/ucl-mental-health/ucl-mental-health-podcast-loneliness-and-mental-health |
| Description | UK Men's Sheds Ambassador Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of findings and discussion of the findings from the research project. Sparked discussion about social prescribing and engaged further interest in the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UK Men's Sheds Association health and Wellbeing Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion of research findings with Men's Sheds Health and Wellbeing Committee, feedback was used to shape dissemination approaches of the findings and to develop guidelines for social prescribers who work with Sheds. The guidelines will be co-produced with this group and the Norfolk Sheds Network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Ula Tymoszuk and Rosie Perkins were panellists at the Southbank Centre's Creative Health Conference on 10 June 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Network Co-investigator Rosie Perkins and Network early career researcher Ula Tymoszuk were panellists at the Southbank Centre's Creative Health Conference on 10 June 2019. They contributed to the panel asking 'How do we address social isolation and loneliness through art?', discussing interventional and epidemiological work from the Centre for Performance Science that focuses on the arts and loneliness/social connection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Understanding loneliness in people with mental health problems workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The aim of the event was to elicit interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussion on defining and measuring loneliness, and to generate research ideas around understanding the experience of loneliness as it relates to mental health. We started with a lunch for networking, followed by 1.5 hours of short talks from a variety of disciplines from Network co-investigators and members (including 3 ECRs) on current measures/dimensions of loneliness and what might be missing from these, historical perspectives on loneliness, philosophical perspectives, experiences of stigma and loneliness, the findings of a qualitative meta-synthesis on loneliness as experienced by young people with depression led by a visiting Network student, and two members of our Co-Production Group gave personal accounts of their experiences. Through the talks we aimed to stimulate discussion, which was structured in two 45-minute sessions. For each of these we had topics assigned to tables such as 'Measures', 'Feedback on the planned consultation interview/focus group questions' (ongoing), 'exploring experiences of loneliness in individuals with mental health problems', and 'How and why does loneliness/isolation arise in people with mental health problems?'. Each table had a facilitator and a note taker, and tables included a range of academics, third sector representatives, and practitioners. The discussions were engaging, and informal feedback and the liveliness of the discussions suggested that the delegates found the talks thought-provoking. After the event the network coordinators collated the notes from the different discussions and produced a list of potential research questions to feed into our first funding call. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Up Close & Policy: Tackling Loneliness, Research Networks and Government |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UCL Public Policy lunchtime webinar to discuss the work of the DCMS Tackling Loneliness Evidence Group, a recent collaboration between policy-makers, academics, and voluntary sector practitioners in identifying and addressing evidence gaps in relation to loneliness and the health and welfare of society (with the membership including many LSIMHRN members e.g. Pamela Qualter, David McDaid, Ellie Pearce, Anne-Kathrin Fett, Alexandra Pitman, Sonia Johnson, Kalpa Kharicha and Nancy Hey). Panelists for the webinar were: Ravneet Virdi, Head of Tackling Loneliness, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Pamela Qualter, Professor of Education, University of Manchester, as well as joint lead of LSIMHRN Dr Alexandra Pitman, UCL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/up-close-policy-tackling-loneliness-research-networks-and-government-... |
| Description | Video interview for Charity MQ on identifying loneliness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Alexandra Pitman (network lead) interviewed for a major charity (MQ)'s series of published online interviews on key topics in mental health, discuss the identification of loneliness and its health impacts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mqopenmind.podbean.com/e/dr-alexandra-pitman-and-identifying-loneliness/ |
| Description | Webcast video for the Academy of Medical Sciences on loneliness among researchers |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As part of the careers support section of the Academy of Medical Sciences website joint-lead Alexandra Pitman recorded a webcast on loneliness and social isolation and mental health as part of the support offered during the COVID-19 pandemic for researchers and practitioners working at home. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://acmedsci.ac.uk/grants-and-schemes/whats-available-to-me/career-support-space/loneliness-and-... |
| Description | Webinar on Research priorities in addressing loneliness and social isolation in people with mild-moderate mental health problems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Short talks on different approaches to reducing loneliness and social isolation in people with mild-moderate mental health problems were followed by small-group discussions on gaps, promising areas and research priorities. Speakers were Joe Potter from Samaritans (middle aged men and loneliness), Network Co-Investigator Roz Shafran (psychological interventions), international Network member Cath Haslam (social identity approaches), Network member Marcello Bertotti (social prescribing) and new Network member Raymond Bond (human-computer interaction), who joined the Network through contributing to the event. The breakout room discussions were facilitated by Network co-investigators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Webinar on Research priorities in addressing loneliness and social isolation in people with severe mental health problems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Short talks on different approaches to reducing loneliness and social isolation in people with severe mental health problems were followed by smaller group discussions on gaps, promising areas and research priorities. Network Co-Investigator Bryn Lloyd-Evans talked about social-focused approaches alongside two members of the Network Co-Production Group (CoG), who provided invaluable lived experience perspectives on the research. Other talks discussed psychological and social approaches to addressing loneliness and social isolation in individuals with severe mental ill-health. Network Co-investigators facilitated breakout room discussions and notes were taken by a team of Early Career Researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |
| Description | Webinar to launch findings from research into loneliness in farming |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A webinar to launch the research findings. A presentation was given by the academic researchers involved summarising the key findings, followed by a presentation from the research partners, Farming Community Network (a charity providing support to the farming community), who discussed the implications of the findings and how they are informing upcoming work by the charity. The webinar ended with a Q&A session. 69 people attended the webinar. The audience included farm support practitioners, representatives from the agricultural industry and local authorities, research participants, academics and other interested individuals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Yu-Wei Chua presented Plus Project at TRIUMPH network ECR Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The research project was presented in an ECR Forum co-organised by LSIMHRN and other networks, led by TRIUMPH. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/epidemiology-and-applied-clinical-research-department/lone... |