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DATAMIND: Data Hub for Mental health INformatics research Development

Lead Research Organisation: Swansea University
Department Name: Institute of Life Science Medical School

Abstract

DATAMIND: Data Hub for Mental health INformatics research Development


What is the problem?

Poor mental health affects everyone at some point in their lives to varying degrees. It is the biggest cause of ill-health and the links, both ways, between physical and mental ill-health are often overlooked. People with mental illness are less likely to take part in or remain in usual types of research studies, be they about physical or mental health, or they are actively excluded. This means that much of what we know about mental illness is not based on the very people who are worst affected. However, the UK has some of the best data in the world to look at how to prevent mental ill-health and maintain and improve people's mental health. Real-world data, often but not always collected routinely as people go about their everyday lives, offers powerful solutions to overcome these issues. We should use them but at the moment, they are hard to find, applying to use them is tedious, and using them can be hard work. Also, people working on physical health, like heart disease, and mental health tend to work apart, without looking at the links or sharing their work.


What will we do about it?

We want to improve people's mental health by changing the way the NHS, charities, Industry and researchers use and share information that's already out there. We will create a Hub where researchers and others can find and use mental health data to benefit patients and the public and improve care. We are going to work with people, patients and people with personal experience of mental health to understand who they are happy with and trust to use their data, and develop ways people can work together on mental health. We are also going to work with researchers, policy makers, charities and people in industry to understand what sort of data they think can answer the questions they want to ask.We plan to find, list and share where people do not usually look for mental health data- like in trials about heart disease.

We will make it easier for everyone invested in mental health to use data in safe, secure and sometimes new ways. Our Hub is led from across the four nations of the UK so that mental health data will relate to everyone. The Hub will allow future work to happen using data from places outside of usual health care e.g. in new places like schools or from charities.
It will ensure everyone's voice is heard- even those who do not usually take part in research.
We also plan to work closely with others doing the same sort of work as us but in different areas like diabetes so we can understand the links and share learning.


How will this benefit people?

By making it easier to know where the data need may be and how to use it the Hub will support excellent research in cutting-edge ways that will improve the lives of people living with poor mental health in the UK. We have involved patients and the public from the very start and will continue to do so - this is why there are patient and public members who have worked with us on developing this. We have assembled a group of researchers across a number of universities who have lots of experience in doing this sort of work with the view of preventing and improving mental health for all.

Technical Summary

Despite the significant health, social and economic burden caused by mental health disorders, research to address them is currently constrained by a number of issues. People who have mental health disorders are socially excluded, less likely to participate in research studies and, if they do, remain in follow-up. Consequently, those with these disorders are inadequately served by consented research studies which under-represent those at greatest need. Moreover, in spite of the huge potential of data-centric health research and the UK's internationally leading status in terms of mental data resources (such as longitudinal and cohort studies, and data platforms), such resources are not yet well coordinated, and mental data research is not well integrated with physical health specialities (despite well-recognised interactions).

Our new Mental Health Data Research Hub will maximise the value of the UK's rich mental health data assets and enable coordinated research, with the ultimate aim of improving lives. The Hub will transform MH research in the UK by providing a central, integrated data infrastructure - with Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable - FAIR mental health rich datasets from diverse sources; underpinned by expertise, innovation, responsible-use principles and embedded public participation; for use across Academia, the NHS, Third Sector, Policy Makers and Industry. The Hub infrastructure will be co-located at 4 lead sites in UK covering the four nations. A core activity is indexing and curating data for research, development and innovation across stakeholders. The Hub will continuously, from its onset, catalogue relevant UK mental health rich datasets, including genomics, routine care, cohorts and trials, often through the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures as well as novel data from schools and charities and make them discoverable and therefore useable through the
HDRUK Gateway.

Organisations

Publications

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Alexander L (2025) Late-life affective disorders and risk of progression to dementia: retrospective cohort study of patients in secondary care. in The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science

 
Description APPG Medical Research RoundTable on Mental Health Inequalities
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description Evidence cited in Mental Health in Northern Ireland Fundamental Facts 2023
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://www.mentalhealthchampion-ni.org.uk/files/mentalhealthchampionni/2023-10/Mental%20Health%20in...
 
Description Invited to sit on the Welsh Government's newly formed Oversight & Delivery Board, as part of work carried out by the Mental Health and Wellbeing in Education branch.
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description MHRA consideration of oxybutinin OTC
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact Improvement in safe prescribing.
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mhra-maintains-prescription-only-status-of-aquiette-25mg-tablets-...
 
Description Manchester BRC Scientific Advisory Board
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact The BRC has grown clinical research infrastructure and the training of clinical and clinical research staff in the wider Manchester region (from South Cumbria to Stockport).
 
Description NHSE appropriate use of antipsychotics in dementia toolkit
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
Impact Supporting information to improve safe prescribing.
URL https://www.england.nhs.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/10/Antipsychotic-Prescribing-Toolk...
 
Description PRENCOG Scientific Advisory Committee Chair
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact The PRENCOG study has lead to imporvmenets in capacity building and staff training throughout the PRENCOG study investigators' insitutions and collaborators.
 
Description UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Diagnostics Advisory Committee: 6-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) for monitoring cardiac health in people having antipsychotic medication (DAP62/HTE10)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/hte10
 
Description An investigation of the epidemiology of falls, fractures and outcomes among people with psychotic and affective disorders
Amount £155,674 (GBP)
Funding ID ICA-CL-2017-03-001 
Organisation National Institute for Health and Care Research 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2018 
End 05/2021
 
Description CHECKPOINT: Finding immune & metabolic pathways to SMI
Amount £3,499,251 (GBP)
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2024 
End 02/2028
 
Description DETERMIND: DETERMinants of quality of life, care and costs, and consequences of INequalities in people with Dementia and their family carers
Amount £4,087,246 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/S010351/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2019 
End 12/2024
 
Description Determinants of MLTCs among young adults with mental disorders: a data-linkage study
Amount £142,254 (GBP)
Organisation Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2020 
End 01/2022
 
Description Edinburgh Molecular Mechanisms Cluster
Amount £53,131,306 (GBP)
Funding ID MR/Y030877/1 
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2024 
End 02/2028
 
Description Empowering Better End of life Dementia Care (EMBED-Care Programme)
Amount £3,957,285 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/S010327/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2019 
End 12/2024
 
Description Empowering patients and the public with skills and knowledge for involvement in translational research
Amount £14,393 (GBP)
Funding ID Part of Wellcome Trust Institutional Translational Partnership Award funding, 222062/Z/20/Z 
Organisation Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2024 
End 12/2024
 
Description Exploiting genomic approaches to identify the environmental basis of depression
Amount £2,530,384 (GBP)
Funding ID 220857 
Organisation Wellcome Trust 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2021 
End 12/2025
 
Description FAIR TREATMENT: Federated analytics and AI Research across TREs for AdolescenT MENTal health
Amount £342,708 (GBP)
Funding ID MC_PC_21025 
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2022 
End 08/2022
 
Description Harmony: A natural processing approach to data discoverability and harmonisation
Amount £748,223 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2024 
End 06/2025
 
Description Improving transparency of processes for accessing health data for research purposes
Amount £14,626 (GBP)
Funding ID HDRUK2023.0465 
Organisation Health Data Research UK 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2023 
End 03/2024
 
Description International longitudinal datasets made discoverable with an interactive online platform (discretionary fund)
Amount £1,279,313 (GBP)
Organisation Wellcome Trust 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2023 
End 09/2028
 
Description Lambeth Health Determinants Research and Evaluation Network (Lambeth HEART)
Amount £5,106,832 (GBP)
Funding ID NIHR151065 
Organisation National Institute for Health and Care Research 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2022 
End 09/2027
 
Description Landscaping to identify the most promising longitudinal datasets for depression, anxiety and psychosis research.
Amount £507,172 (GBP)
Organisation Wellcome Trust 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2022 
End 08/2023
 
Description Longitudinal changes in cognitive impairment for patients with Schizophrenia
Amount £223,400 (GBP)
Organisation Takeda Pharmaceutical Company 
Sector Private
Country Japan
Start 02/2019 
End 01/2022
 
Description Mental Health Platform Coordinating Centre
Amount £1,069,026 (GBP)
Funding ID MR/Z000548/1 
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2024 
End 03/2029
 
Description Metabolism in Psychiatry
Amount £3,200,000 (GBP)
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2024 
End 02/2028
 
Description NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
Amount £86,200,000 (GBP)
Funding ID NIHR203312 
Organisation National Institute for Health and Care Research 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2022 
End 11/2027
 
Description Optimising community C(E)TRs through understanding the experience of people with intellectual disability and autistic people and investigating their impact on care
Amount £1,631,665 (GBP)
Funding ID NIHR158490 
Organisation National Institute for Health and Care Research 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2024 
End 02/2028
 
Description Patterns of Multiple Long-Term Vascular Conditions in Lambeth and Southwark
Amount £128,369 (GBP)
Organisation Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2020 
End 09/2021
 
Description Research Innovation Fund Wales
Amount £35,604 (GBP)
Organisation Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2022 
End 07/2023
 
Description SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PREDICTORS FOR THE COURSE AND PROGNOSIS OF THE SEVERE MENTAL DISORDERS- THE SEP-MD DATA LINKAGE STUDY
Amount £161,761 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/S002715/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2020 
End 07/2023
 
Description South London and Maudsley Healthtech Research Centre
Amount £2,938,217 (GBP)
Organisation National Institute for Health and Care Research 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2024 
End 03/2029
 
Description The acceptability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Enhanced Patient Observation in reducing the risk of self-harm and suicide on psychiatric wards
Amount £1,279,313 (GBP)
Organisation National Institute for Health and Care Research 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2024 
End 08/2027
 
Description The eLIXIR (early LIFe data Cross-Linkage in Research) Cohort.
Amount £1,486,392 (GBP)
Funding ID MR/X009742/1 
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2023 
End 03/2028
 
Description The effects of extreme heat events on mental health in vulnerable urban communities: towards evidence-based policy and practice
Amount £1,680,130 (GBP)
Funding ID 228033/Z/23/Z 
Organisation Wellcome Trust 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2023 
End 04/2026
 
Description UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (PI = Anna Moore): Transforming child mental health: co-designing, building and evaluating a digitally enabled, personalised, prevention pathway
Amount £2,464,008 (GBP)
Organisation United Kingdom Research and Innovation 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2024 
End 02/2028
 
Description Understanding the causal mechanisms of antidepressant exposure and response
Amount £4,715,101 (GBP)
Funding ID 226770/Z/22/Z 
Organisation Wellcome Trust 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2023 
End 07/2028
 
Description Using smartphone-based personal sensing to understand and predict risk of psychotic relapse at the individual level
Amount £754,342 (GBP)
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2019 
End 09/2023
 
Description Violence, Health and Society: VISION
Amount £7,128,297 (GBP)
Funding ID MR/V049879/1 
Organisation Medical Research Council (MRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2021 
End 09/2026
 
Description What CAMHS interventions predict positive outcomes for which young people with a social worker: a mixed-methods study of clinical support and cost-effectiveness utilising linked operational data
Amount £1,316,008 (GBP)
Organisation National Institute for Health and Care Research 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2022 
End 05/2026
 
Description Workplace bullying in an evolving landscape: A longitudinal investigation of vulnerabilities and outcomes
Amount £128,071 (GBP)
Organisation The Colt Foundation 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2025 
End 01/2028
 
Title A library of natural language processing algorithms to support mental healthcare text analytics 
Description Through the MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award to KCL and supported by the subsequent DATAMIND hub and VISION consortium, we have produced comprehensive online, open-access catalogues, regularly updated on natural language processing algorithms currently supporting research using text fields from electronic mental healthcare records. The functionality of the algorithms has been made available on request through the Mental Health - Text Analytics Cloud (MH-TAC, previously 'GATE Cloud') platform, also developed through the KCL Pathfinder award and DATAMIND hub (and described elsewhere). 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The algorithms are widely used in CRIS research and have increasingly been run over text from other NHS Mental Health Trusts. 
URL https://www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/facilities/clinical-record-interactive-search-cris/cris-natural-l...
 
Title A platform for enabling sharing of healthcare natural language processing functionality (MH-TAC) 
Description The Mental Health Text Analytics Cloud (MH-TAC) has been developed as a within-NHS platform to facilitate the sharing of natural language processing algorithms, including but not restricted to the large catalogue developed and maintained at the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Successful prototype development. In use by three separate organisations to date. 
 
Title De-identified Bayesian personal identity matching for record linkage despite errors 
Description Technique for linking records about people (a) without a common person-unique identifier such as an NHS number, but ultimately using names, dates of birth, and so forth; and (b) in de-identified fashion, so none of those identifiers are visible at linkage (irreversibly encrypted versions are used). Currently under review but available as a preprint. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact A candidate method to replace some current national data linkage schemes using identifiable data (and NHS Act Section 251 approval), but peer review awaited. 
URL https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1929135/v1
 
Title Enhanced natural language processing algorithm for ascertaining violence from mental healthcare text records 
Description Natural language processing algorithms developed on the Maudsley CRIS platform for use on mental healthcare records text include an updated 'Version 2' suite of algorithms for ascertaining violence victimisation and perpetration, with improved ascertainment of violence victimisation vs. perpetration, setting (e.g., domestic), temporality, and nature (physical, sexual, emotional, financial). This work was enabled through funding from the VISION consortium. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2024 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact This has only just been developed but is being actively deployed in analyses. 
URL https://www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/facilities/clinical-record-interactive-search-cris/cris-natural-l...
 
Title Novel natural language processing algorithms to extract structured entities from health records text 
Description Within the last 12 months, novel algorithms have been developed and applied for reported clinical trajectories (entities improving or deteriorating), and a range of routine blood tests, as well as a measure of recorded family contact. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2024 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact These algorithms are now in active use to support novel research using the Maudsley CRIS data platform, as well as being made available for other NHS service use via the MH-TAC interface (described elsewhere). 
URL https://www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/facilities/clinical-record-interactive-search-cris/cris-natural-l...
 
Title Recently developed natural language processing algorithms 
Description Natural language processing algorithms have been developed and/or first applied this year to ascertain recorded instances of violence in mental healthcare, and co-occurring physical health conditions (21 to date). In addition, novel characterisation of psychomotor agitation/retardation is now possible. Finally, a range of 'long Covid' symptoms can now be ascertained - developed in response to PPIE. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Successful application in a range of completed research projects using mental healthcare data. 
URL https://www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/facilities/clinical-record-interactive-search-cris/cris-natural-l...
 
Title The Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets 
Description That Atlas is an online, searchable platform that maps thousands of longitudinal datasets from around the world. It enhances discoverability and accessibility of data, enabling users to uncover new datasets relevant to their research 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2025 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The Wellcome Trust has launched a new call for proposals and list the Atlas as a tool that researchers can use to find longitudinal datasets for their application. 
URL https://atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk/
 
Title Linkage between CRIS mental healthcare data and HFEA data 
Description This links mental healthcare data with HFEA data on fertility assessment and treatment, allowing (for the first time) investigations of mental health inequalities in infertility investigation and treatment to be evaluated. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact These are still rather early days following the linkage. 
URL https://www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/facilities/clinical-record-interactive-search-cris/cris-data-link...
 
Title Linkage between CRIS mental healthcare data and the HIV and AIDS Reporting Service 
Description A linkage between mental healthcare data and HIV reporting data. This enables (for the first time) mental health inequalities in HIV investigation and/or management to be investigated. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact At relatively early stages of use. A descriptive paper will be in the public domain shortly. 
 
Title Research data supporting "Public opinion on sharing data from health services for clinical and research purposes without explicit consent: an anonymous online survey in the UK" 
Description Anonymised data from a 2020 UK survey of public opinion about sharing NHS health data for clinical and research purposes. Study registration https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN37444142 . Preprint at https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.19.21260635 . Final paper in BMJ Open at https://doi.org/bmjopen-2021-057579 . 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/336099
 
Title The Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets 
Description That Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets is an online, searchable platform that maps thousands of longitudinal datasets from around the world. It enhances discoverability and accessibility of data, enabling users to uncover new datasets relevant to their research. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2025 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The Wellcome Trust has recently launched a call for proposal on longitudinal data and it lists the Atlas as a resource for researchers 
URL https://atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk/
 
Description Adolescent Mental Health and Development in the Digital World - SAB Chair 
Organisation University of Nottingham
Department Digital Youth
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Digital Youth, an interdisciplinary programme bringing together world-leading researchers from the Universities of Nottingham, Auckland, Bath, Glasgow, Kings College London, LSE, UCL and the Open University, is co-produced and co-designed with our young person's advisory group Sprouting Minds and is at the forefront of these developments. The Digital Youth team is working to find practical solutions through understanding the complex risks and opportunities for mental health associated with young people's engagement with the digital world with the aim of generating new preventative and therapeutic interventions. I am chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for Digital Youth.
Collaborator Contribution I am chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for Digital Youth.
Impact Digital Youth website - https://digitalyouth.ac.uk/ - lists all types of outputs and outcomes for this activity
Start Year 2022
 
Description Amsterdam Cohort Hub (ACH) - SAB member 
Organisation Academic Medical Center
Country Netherlands 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Attend meetings to discuss progress and future plans
Collaborator Contribution Will facilitate connection with longitudinal datasets from the NL
Impact No yet
Start Year 2024
 
Description Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH) - collaborator for Landscaping international longitudinal datasets project 
Organisation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Department Centre of Global Mental Health (CGMH)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution We are a partnership of researchers, charities, and industry and lived experience experts funded by the Wellcome Trust to landscape longitudinal datasets with potential for transformative mental health research.
Collaborator Contribution The Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH) helped with identifying datasets from low- and middle-income countries and supported the dissemination of the project on social media.
Impact We submitted our report to Wellcome in Feb
Start Year 2022
 
Description Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) - SAB member 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Attend online meetings to discuss strategic direction and future funding
Collaborator Contribution Facilitate connections with other longitudinal studies
Impact None yet
Start Year 2023
 
Description Centre for Society and Mental Health 
Organisation ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Centre will improve our understanding of the complex interrelationships between society and mental health, create platforms enabling new collaborations between disciplines and with societal partners, and work closely with users, communities, practitioners, and policy makers to design and assess novel evidence-based strategies for prevention and intervention. I contribute to the population mental health platforms and discussions
Collaborator Contribution The Centre contributes to the dissemination of the activities of the Mental Health Leadership Fellow
Impact N/A
Start Year 2019
 
Description Collaboration with Delosis.com 
Organisation King's College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution We worked with John Rogers at Delosis to develop the web platform for the Catalogue for Mental Health Measures
Collaborator Contribution Delosis developed the Catalogue and currently maintains and updates the information to keep the tool up to date
Impact The Catalogue for Mental Health Measures https://www.cataloguementalhealth.ac.uk/
Start Year 2018
 
Description Collaboration with Voice of Young People in Care (VOYPIC) - ongoing 
Organisation Voice of Young People in Care
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The research team have partnered with VOYPIC to involve care experienced young people in RB2 related research
Collaborator Contribution VOYPIC co-facilitate the Data Research Advisors Group with DATAMIND researchers at Queen's University Belfast (QUB). The Data Research Advisers Group (DRAG) provides a platform and safe space for QUB researchers and experts by experience to work in equal partnership to co-produce research that uses administrative data to better understand the experiences and mental health outcomes of children and young people known to social services in Northern Ireland (NI).
Impact There have been 6 workshops held to date with experts by experience in their role as Data Research Advisors. This collaboration with VOYPIC and the young people has led to a number of high impact outputs such as the publication of a young person's version of a research paper, an ADR UK blog post and a pilot internship program where a care experienced young person worked with ADRC NI for two months.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Collaboration with Voice of Young People in Care (VOYPIC) - ongoing 
Organisation Voice of Young People in Care
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The research team have partnered with VOYPIC to involve care experienced young people in RB2 related research
Collaborator Contribution VOYPIC co-facilitate the Data Research Advisors Group with DATAMIND researchers at Queen's University Belfast (QUB). The Data Research Advisers Group (DRAG) provides a platform and safe space for QUB researchers and experts by experience to work in equal partnership to co-produce research that uses administrative data to better understand the experiences and mental health outcomes of children and young people known to social services in Northern Ireland (NI).
Impact There have been 6 workshops held to date with experts by experience in their role as Data Research Advisors. This collaboration with VOYPIC and the young people has led to a number of high impact outputs such as the publication of a young person's version of a research paper, an ADR UK blog post and a pilot internship program where a care experienced young person worked with ADRC NI for two months.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Collaboration with the Medicines Discovery Catapult 
Organisation Medicines Discovery Catapult
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution We have established a colaboration with the Medicines Discovery Catapult through regular participation in DATAMIND's Industrial forum initially. This led to a formal partnership through a Wellcome Trust funded activities that seeks to better understand the mechanisms of antidepressants
Collaborator Contribution The Catapult has brokered trusted relationships between DATAMIND, specific DATAMIND investigators and collaborators and the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. They have developed a mechansism to search for and retrieve data from unpublished RCTs of psychiatric medications. In our Wellcome award, we have partnered with them to identify published and unpublished studies of antidepressants and antidepressant response, where there is genetic or other data available
Impact Grant funding c£4m from the Wellcome Trust, further ongoing participation in the DATAMIND (renewal)
Start Year 2023
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation AIMES Grid Services Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation Akrivia Health
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Hospitals 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation Bangor University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation Cardiff University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation Health Data Research UK
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation King's College London
Department Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation Kooth Plc
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation MQ Mental Health Research
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation Manchester University
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation McPin Foundation
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCC MH)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC)
Country Global 
Sector Learned Society 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation Queen's University Belfast
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation SAIL Databank
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation Swansea University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation University of Edinburgh
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND consortium 
Organisation University of Glasgow
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Cambridge contribution: leading patient/public involvement for DATAMIND, along with technical and epidemiological elements.
Collaborator Contribution Other core activities (FAIR curated data, business development/sustainability, workforce capacity/training/development) and "road builder" projects.
Impact See ResearchFish for MRC grant MR/W014386/1
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND network 
Organisation AIMES Grid Services Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally.
Impact It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration.
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND network 
Organisation Akrivia Health
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Hospitals 
PI Contribution I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally.
Impact It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration.
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND network 
Organisation Cardiff University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally.
Impact It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration.
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND network 
Organisation MQ Mental Health Research
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally.
Impact It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration.
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND network 
Organisation McPin Foundation
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally.
Impact It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration.
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND network 
Organisation Queen's University Belfast
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally.
Impact It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration.
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND network 
Organisation Swansea University
Department Swansea University Medical School
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally.
Impact It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration.
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND network 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally.
Impact It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration.
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND network 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally.
Impact It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration.
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND network 
Organisation University of Cambridge
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally.
Impact It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration.
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND network 
Organisation University of Edinburgh
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally.
Impact It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration.
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND network 
Organisation University of Glasgow
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally.
Impact It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration.
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND network 
Organisation University of Manchester
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally.
Impact It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration.
Start Year 2021
 
Description DATAMIND network 
Organisation University of Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I co-direct this initiative and my research team is responsible for its project management, as well as leading a workpackage
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute to the facilitation of mental health data science nationally.
Impact It's a little early for outputs, as it only commenced in Sep 2021. The disciplines involved are epidemiology, psychiatry, public health, computer science, project management, administration.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Health Data Research UK - collaborator for Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets project 
Organisation Health Data Research UK
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution We are a partnership of researchers, charities, and industry and lived experience experts funded by the Wellcome Trust to landscape longitudinal datasets with potential for transformative mental health research.
Collaborator Contribution HDRUK mental health data hub - DATAMIND contributed to this project by helping to identify datasets outside academia.
Impact We submitted our report to Wellcome in February 2023. This report is not publicly available yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description INSPIRE: Mental Health Project - SAB member 
Organisation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Member of their SAB and attend regular meetings to discuss progress and future direction
Collaborator Contribution Collaborate on the Landscaping project for identifying longitudinal datasets from Africa and establish connections
Impact None so far
Start Year 2023
 
Description King's Pathfinder network 
Organisation Cardiff University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level.
Collaborator Contribution We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers.
Impact 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies.
Start Year 2018
 
Description King's Pathfinder network 
Organisation Department for Education
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level.
Collaborator Contribution We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers.
Impact 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies.
Start Year 2018
 
Description King's Pathfinder network 
Organisation Public Health England
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level.
Collaborator Contribution We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers.
Impact 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies.
Start Year 2018
 
Description King's Pathfinder network 
Organisation South London and Maudsley (SLAM) NHS Foundation Trust
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level.
Collaborator Contribution We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers.
Impact 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies.
Start Year 2018
 
Description King's Pathfinder network 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level.
Collaborator Contribution We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers.
Impact 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies.
Start Year 2018
 
Description King's Pathfinder network 
Organisation University of Cambridge
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level.
Collaborator Contribution We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers.
Impact 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies.
Start Year 2018
 
Description King's Pathfinder network 
Organisation University of Nottingham
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level.
Collaborator Contribution We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers.
Impact 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies.
Start Year 2018
 
Description King's Pathfinder network 
Organisation University of Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level.
Collaborator Contribution We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers.
Impact 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies.
Start Year 2018
 
Description King's Pathfinder network 
Organisation University of Sussex
Department Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Through KCL's MRC Mental Health Data Pathfinder award, we have been able to assemble this diverse network of partners to enable the development of mental healthcare informatics resources at a national level.
Collaborator Contribution We are working actively with University College London and University of Cambridge, and increasingly with University of Oxford on collaborative initiatives using CRIS and CRIS-like systems to provide research output from electronic health records data. We have active collaborations with Public Health England and the Department for Education on data linkages using CRIS, as data suppliers.
Impact 1. A database has now been assembled for analysis linking our CRIS data with National Cancer Registry data (via Public Health England). 2. The GATE-Cloud natural language processing resource has been successfully set up in Azure (through collaboration with University of Cambridge). 3. External funding has been sourced for collaborative CRIS work (with University of Oxford) involving derivation of new data via KCL-hosted algorithms (and GATE-Cloud - see (2) above). The collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving clinical and non-clinical academic staff from Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Informatics, Computer Science, as well as colleagues in government bodies.
Start Year 2018
 
Description MQ Mental Health Research - charity partner for Landscaping international longitudinal datasets project 
Organisation MQ Mental Health Research
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution We are a partnership of researchers, charities, and industry and lived experience experts funded by the Wellcome Trust to landscape longitudinal datasets with potential for transformative mental health research. MQ assisted with landscaping international studies and they led the planning and organisation of a Theory of Change workshop for ensuring a meaningful engagement with various stakeholders about possible enrichment of datasets. This workshop aimed at supporting the delivery of the report, particularly regarding the areas of enrichment. This workshop encouraged discussions with stakeholders about data and what is needed to create a step change in early intervention in anxiety, depression, and psychosis. We sought to hear about what can be achieved, and how.
Collaborator Contribution MQ delivered a full report for the workshop and contributed to landscaping international studies by contacting their international partners. They also support the dissemination of the project.
Impact We submitted the report to Wellcome in February 2023. This report is not publicly available yet
Start Year 2022
 
Description MQ/DATAMIND Data Science meeting 
Organisation MQ Mental Health Research
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution I am the Chair for the bi-annual meetings organised by MQ and DATAMIND.
Collaborator Contribution I contribute to the organisation of the meetings and I chair the sessions on the day. I also select the submissions from the early career researchers.
Impact None yet
Start Year 2022
 
Description Mental Health Mission Data and Digital Theme 
Organisation Swansea University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Contributing as lead for one of the three work packages and as co-investigator.
Collaborator Contribution Work package and theme leadership
Impact Additional funds for DATAMIND from the Mental Health Mission. Additional support for informatics activity at KCL and the Maudsley.
Start Year 2023
 
Description Mental Health Mission Data and Digital Theme 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Contributing as lead for one of the three work packages and as co-investigator.
Collaborator Contribution Work package and theme leadership
Impact Additional funds for DATAMIND from the Mental Health Mission. Additional support for informatics activity at KCL and the Maudsley.
Start Year 2023
 
Description Mental Health Mission Data and Digital Theme 
Organisation University of Manchester
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Contributing as lead for one of the three work packages and as co-investigator.
Collaborator Contribution Work package and theme leadership
Impact Additional funds for DATAMIND from the Mental Health Mission. Additional support for informatics activity at KCL and the Maudsley.
Start Year 2023
 
Description Mental Health Mission Data and Digital Theme 
Organisation University of Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Contributing as lead for one of the three work packages and as co-investigator.
Collaborator Contribution Work package and theme leadership
Impact Additional funds for DATAMIND from the Mental Health Mission. Additional support for informatics activity at KCL and the Maudsley.
Start Year 2023
 
Description Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group 
Organisation Cardiff University
Department School of Medicine
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Collaborator Contribution Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project.
Impact The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group 
Organisation Swansea University
Department Swansea University Medical School
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Collaborator Contribution Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project.
Impact The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group 
Organisation University College London
Department Medical School
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Collaborator Contribution Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project.
Impact The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group 
Organisation University of Cambridge
Department Department of Psychiatry
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Collaborator Contribution Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project.
Impact The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group 
Organisation University of Edinburgh
Department Medical School Edinburgh
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Collaborator Contribution Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project.
Impact The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group 
Organisation University of Glasgow
Department School of Medicine Glasgow
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Collaborator Contribution Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project.
Impact The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group 
Organisation University of Manchester
Department School of Medicine Manchester
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Collaborator Contribution Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project.
Impact The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group 
Organisation University of Nottingham
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Collaborator Contribution Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project.
Impact The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group 
Organisation University of Oxford
Department Department of Psychiatry
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Collaborator Contribution Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project.
Impact The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Mental Health Translational Research Collaborative (MH-TRC) medical informatics working group 
Organisation University of Southampton
Department Southampton Medical School
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution I proposed a medical informatics working group for the NIHR MH-TRC which was adopted and is now up and running (and I am an active partner in this). Through this partnership, I was able to lead a piece of work evaluating mental healthcare provision changes across 10 sites during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Collaborator Contribution Most NIHR-associated academic centres, plus centres receiving equivalent funding in devolved nations, contribute to the medical informatics working group and to the COVID-19 exemplar project.
Impact The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with academic leads drawn from varying medical and non-medical disciplines.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Talk Life 
Organisation Swansea University
Department Swansea University Medical School
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Research into the relationship of self-harm and social media images.
Collaborator Contribution Sharing of data (specifically images) for use in our research.
Impact Signed collaboration agreement for the sharing of data, in order to carry out a project on self-harm and social media images. Initial analyses completed, data algorithms being created.
Start Year 2019
 
Description The Academy of Medical Sciences - Mental health workshop in South Africa 
Organisation Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) and the Academy of Sciences of South Africa (ASSAf) jointly hosted a meeting on mental health, which took place in South Africa in November 2022. This meeting formed part of programme of global health policy workshops delivered jointly with partners in low-and-middle income countries, with the overall aim to: enable partners (primarily National Academies) in ODA-eligible countries to consider how scientific evidence can address key global health challenges; build policy capacity for the provision of scientific advice; and reconnect with and strengthen our networks in LMIC's. The academies hoped to use this meeting to also build on the previous work on global mental health (such as this meeting in 2019 on the social determinants of mental health), and wider ongoing work in the ecosystem. The project was led by a co-nominated Steering Committee, headed up by Chairs from both the Academy and ASSAf. I was co-chair for this project steering committee.
Collaborator Contribution I was co-chair for this project steering committee
Impact The report was made pubic in April 2023. We published a correspondence in Nature Medicine in February 2024
Start Year 2022
 
Description The Kooth - 
Organisation Kooth Plc
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Data sharing agreement to store the data in accordance with data protection laws for the purposes of an analysis & academic collaboration project.
Collaborator Contribution Using data from an online support and counselling service in the UK for young people these are the research questions: i) Has there been a change in the number of contacts pre and post COVID-19?; ii) Has there been a change in the presenting complaints pre and post COVID-19 (incident cases)?; iii) Has there been a change in the referral source pre and post COVID-19?; and iv) Is there any evidence that any changes observed vary by ethnic minority status, gender and area level deprivation?
Impact Data sharing agreement.
Start Year 2020
 
Description The Kooth - 
Organisation Swansea University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Data sharing agreement to store the data in accordance with data protection laws for the purposes of an analysis & academic collaboration project.
Collaborator Contribution Using data from an online support and counselling service in the UK for young people these are the research questions: i) Has there been a change in the number of contacts pre and post COVID-19?; ii) Has there been a change in the presenting complaints pre and post COVID-19 (incident cases)?; iii) Has there been a change in the referral source pre and post COVID-19?; and iv) Is there any evidence that any changes observed vary by ethnic minority status, gender and area level deprivation?
Impact Data sharing agreement.
Start Year 2020
 
Description UKRI Mental Health Platform Leadership Team 
Organisation Queen Mary University of London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Contribution to senior leadership team responsibilities and activities. Coordinating the link with DATAMIND.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership and co-applicant responsibilities.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2024
 
Description UKRI Mental Health Platform Leadership Team 
Organisation Swansea University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Contribution to senior leadership team responsibilities and activities. Coordinating the link with DATAMIND.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership and co-applicant responsibilities.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2024
 
Description UKRI Mental Health Platform Leadership Team 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Contribution to senior leadership team responsibilities and activities. Coordinating the link with DATAMIND.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership and co-applicant responsibilities.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2024
 
Description UKRI Mental Health Platform Leadership Team 
Organisation University of Cambridge
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Contribution to senior leadership team responsibilities and activities. Coordinating the link with DATAMIND.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership and co-applicant responsibilities.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2024
 
Description UKRI Mental Health Platform Leadership Team 
Organisation University of Edinburgh
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Contribution to senior leadership team responsibilities and activities. Coordinating the link with DATAMIND.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership and co-applicant responsibilities.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2024
 
Description UKRI Mental Health Platform Leadership Team 
Organisation University of Sheffield
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Contribution to senior leadership team responsibilities and activities. Coordinating the link with DATAMIND.
Collaborator Contribution Senior leadership and co-applicant responsibilities.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health - SAB member 
Organisation Cardiff University
Department Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health is a dedicated interdisciplinary research centre focusing on reducing anxiety and depression in young people. It uses research expertise to focus on understanding the causes of adolescent mental health problems that can inform new effective ways to offer practical help to young people.
Collaborator Contribution I am a member of the Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health Scientific Advisory Board
Impact The centre's webite lists all ongoing activities, outputs and outcomes.
Start Year 2021
 
Title Medichec Version 3 
Description Medichec is an app and website that supports prescribing in dementia particularly, but with relevance to older adults more generally, by collating information on known adverse effects of prescribed medications. Version 3, released in autumn 2023, now covers central anticholinergic effects, sedation, dizziness/drowsiness, bleeding risk, hyponatraemia, constipation, and QTc prolongation. 
Type Support Tool - For Medical Intervention
Current Stage Of Development Wide-scale adoption
Year Development Stage Completed 2023
Development Status Under active development/distribution
Impact Earlier versions of medichec are already accessed in all world regions and have become routine in many memory assessment services. 
URL https://medichec.com/
 
Title CRATE extensions for de-identified Bayesian record linkage 
Description Extensions (doi:10.1186/s12911-023-02176-6) to CRATE (doi:10.1186/s12911-017-0437-1), available at https://crateanon.readthedocs.io/, to support de-identified linkage of records without a common person-unique identifier. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2023 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact Not catalogued. 
URL https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-023-02176-6
 
Title Core Mental Health Dataset (CMHDS) 
Description The CMHDS was developed through a National Institute for Health and Social Care Research (NIHR)-funded project between 2020 and 2023 to capture mental health data in physical health trials. The link between physical and mental health is well known, however there is limited data to evidence this as physical and mental health data are not routinely collected together. A series of focus groups involving members of the public, experts in mental health data collection and ethics committee members were involved in establishing the CMHDS. This was then successfully implemented in two physical health trials. In early 2023, we were awarded Greater Manchester Clinical Research Network (CRN) funding to culturally adapt the CMHDS. We engaged 23 participants from minoritised ethnic backgrounds through public focus groups to explore perceptions of the CMHDS and its inclusion of race and ethnicity data. Additionally, we consulted six experts in cultural sensitivity and mental health research to gather insights into best practices. The tool was adapted in 2024 following these discussions, and adapted again March 2025 following a meeting with the DATAMIND advisory group. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2024 
Impact The CMHDS has been implemented successfully in two physical health trials. The updated version will be implemented in an asthma study based at Sheffield Hospitals NHS Trust. The GM.Digital Research Unit has also been involved in discussions with colleagues in Jamaica to look at the feasibility of implementing the CMHDS in emergency departments in Kingston. 
URL https://redcap.manchester.ac.uk/surveys/?s=Y8MY8XFRLKKAECJY
 
Title MH-TAC 
Description An interface and support service to permit natural language processing algorithms to be applied to the processing of clinical text from mental healthcare providers - both API and bulk processing options are available. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2024 
Impact In active use by two collaborating Mental Health Trusts to support local research. 
 
Title Medichec Version 3 
Description A website and app to enable medications to be labelled according to published adverse effects. In addition to the central anticholinergic effects, drowsiness, and dizziness available in earlier versions, new functionality has been developed for QTc prolongation, hyponatraemia, bleeding risk, and constipation. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact Under evaluation. Previous versions have had global reach. 
URL https://medichec.com/
 
Title The Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets 
Description That Atlas is an online, searchable platform that maps thousands of longitudinal datasets from around the world. It enhances discoverability and accessibility of data, enabling users to uncover new datasets relevant to their research. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2025 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact The Wellcome Trust has recently launched a call for proposal on longitudinal data and it lists the Atlas as a useful resource for researchers to find existing datasets 
URL https://atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk/
 
Description "Invited to speak at the DS4MH March 2024 -AI UK Fringe event. The Alan Turing Institute, London." 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Presentation Title:
"AI for Mental Health Monitoring". "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description 'Do the Right Thing', Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row, London. - 27th January 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact debate regarding 'Do the Right Thing', Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row, London.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description 20th Congress of EPA Section of Epidemiology & Social Psychiatry. - 8th September 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact conference for 20th Congress of EPA Section of Epidemiology & Social Psychiatry
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description A PPIE group set up to review COVID-19 pandemic relevant research using local data 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Patients, carers and/or patient groups
Results and Impact A PPIE group was set up with approximately monthly meetings over at least a 6-month period now. The purpose has been to review data-derived work of particular relevance for the COVID-19 pandemic in local mental healthcare.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description A hackathon on mental health natural language processing 
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 We co-hosted one of around 12 working groups for a Health Data Research Gateway hackathon 3-day event at the University of Nottingham, completing work on a prototype clinical decision support algorithm.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description A novel PPIE group to inform dementia data science strategy and output 
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 A group of 5-10 patients and carers meeting quarterly to consider the design, output and overall strategy of research in dementia using health records data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description A novel PPIE group to inform healthcare natural language processing strategy and output 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Patients, carers and/or patient groups
Results and Impact Around 15 patients and carers have been recruited for ongoing oversight of natural language processing developments using mental healthcare records data held at the Maudsley CRIS resource. Having received three training sessions, quarterly review meetings are planned going forward. As far as we are aware, this is the first such dedicated group established, but we will look to develop/support wider networks.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description A presentation on how to get started in an academic career 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A presentation for the London Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists on 'how to do research'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description A presentation on mental healthcare informatics to a Danish research 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 on mental healthcare data science and its opportunities and challenges to a large Danish research group and an invited wider audience. Lively discussion was stimulated.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description A presentation on mental healthcare informatics used to investigate loneliness post-pandemic 
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 to the Royal College of Psychiatrists Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry congress showing how mental healthcare data science resources were used to investigate loneliness and its correlates before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Well attended and a good discussion afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description A presentation on mind and body in ageing 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact An invited talk at a symposium to mark the completion of the AGECAP multi-disciplinary ageing research collaboration at the University of Gothenburg. Attended by a mixed public/professional audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description A presentation on physical health in dementia 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Two presentations given to mental health Trusts on physical health outcomes in dementia and memory service models
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description A presentation on the DATAMIND hub for mental health data science 
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 to the annual Alleviate conference on pain research, outlining the DATAMIND hub and its activities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description A presentation on violence and mental health data science 
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 and chairing of a symposium at the Edinburgh Prevention Congress on violence and mental health data science developed via the VISION Consortium.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description A scoping review and stakeholder consultations about barriers and enablers in digital health adoption in the NHS 
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 Purpose of the project
This project aims to map regulatory, procurement, and operational pathways for integrating digital health products into the NHS. The objective is to develop practical, evidence-based, and sustainable guidelines for innovators, NHS stakeholders, and policy-makers in navigating adoption challenges. Drawing on sociotechnical and innovation system perspectives, the project explores systemic barriers and enablers that influence the NHS's ability to integrate and sustain digital health solutions.

Research phases & deliverables

Phase 1: Scoping review and mapping
Phase 2: Stakeholder consultation
Phase 3: Analysis & case study development
Phase 4: Drafting guidelines
Phase 5: Finalising guidelines & dissemination
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024,2025
 
Description A symposium on mental healthcare data science 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A chaired symposium, well-attended, at the European Psychiatric Association Section of Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry congress. Focused on mental healthcare data science, particularly that using electronic health records data, and stimulated lively discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description A talk on computational psychiatry to the Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualised Cognition, Singapore 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A talk on computational psychiatry methods to a cognition research centre, which has led to greater use of these techniques.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description A workshop on digital phenotyping 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Contributed to a workshop for the Mental Health Mission, hosted by its Data & Digital Theme at Manchester University, to consider the applicability of digital phenotyping in trials-related activity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description ADHD and social isolation paper - Thompson 2023 
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 Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact The Independent reports our findings on children with ADHD and social isolation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/adhd-children-british-research-b2309831.html
 
Description APMS Academic meeting to discuss APMS data. - 10th June 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Meeting - APMS Academic meeting to discuss APMS data
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Arseneault 2023 
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 Louise Arseneault wrote a blog for the Landscaping project. The blog was entitled: 'Epilogue of a research adventure.'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.landscaping-longitudinal-research.com/blog/la-2
 
Description Arseneault 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Louise Arseneault contributed a lecture to the Boston University Center for Trauma and Mental Health seminar series. The presentation was entitled: 'Landscaping International Longitudinal Datasets'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Arseneault 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Louise Arseneault contributed a presentation to the 14th Annual International Network for Research on Inequalities in Child Health (INRICH) Workshop. The presentation was entitled: 'Bullying at school'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Arseneault 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Louise Arseneault contributed a presentation at King's College London/ the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre weekly seminar series. The presentation was entitled: 'A year searching the world for longitudinal datasets: Reflections on richness and opportunities.'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Arseneault 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Louise Arseneault contributed a presentation at the 17th European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies conference. The presentation was entitled: 'The Catalogue of Mental Health Measures: Discovering the depths of mental health data in UK longitudinal studies.'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Arseneault 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Louise Arseneault made a invited public lecture at Cardiff University as part of the Waterloo Foundation Annual Meeting. the presentation was entitled 'Why social relationships are important for your mental health'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Arseneault 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Louise Arseneault contributed a presentation to the 5th Congress of the joint European Neonatal Societies (jENS). The presentation was entitled 'The social environment of children: How it shapes mental health and cognition.'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Blog for the Conversation - L Arseneault & B Bryan 2024 
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: Arseneault, L., & Bryan B., (2024). Loneliness may not make you ill after all, says new study - but that doesn't mean we shouldn't tackle it The Conversation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://theconversation.com/loneliness-may-not-make-you-ill-after-all-says-new-study-but-that-doesnt...
 
Description Children social isolation and mental health - Thompson 2023 
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 Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact KCL filmed Katie Thompson about her research on how does childhood social isolation impact mental health? She explains how social isolation can vary across childhood and discusses which children are most at risk of developing poor mental health.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://twitter.com/KingsIoPPN/status/1623284059345494023
 
Description Collaboration on Adult Digital Psychology Therapy 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact ieso mental health innovation - adult digital psychology therapy services for depression and anxiety disorders to the NHS
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Conversation with member of UK-Electoral Commission about potential voting-related research in NI 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Conversation with member of UK-Electoral Commission about potential voting-related research in NI ... very fruitful conversation on process and application.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description DATAMIND Awayday 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact DATAMIND poster presentation on Digitally enhanced trials.

This was the first MRC DATAMIND Project Awayday and time in which all members of the project will come together in person. The project officially launched in September 2021 with shared leadership by Swansea
University (Prof. Ann John) and Kings College London (Prof. Rob Stewart).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description DATAMIND/MQ Early Career Researchers Workshop. - 27th September 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact DATAMIND/MQ Early Career Researchers Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Datamind Industrial Forum, London. - 28th January 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Meeting/ conference - Datamind Industrial Forum, London
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description End user workshop for SQALE (Scalable Quantum Atomic Lattice computing tEstbed) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Workshop participation: brainstorming session of potential applications of quantum computing for mental health
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Engaging the DATAMIND patient/public research advisory group with the Industrial Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presentation and initial engagement between the DATAMIND patient/public Research Advisory Group and representatives of the commercial/industrial sector, 28 Jan 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description European Public Health Conference. - 10th November 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact European Public Health Conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Festival of Genomics & Biodata 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Talk about DATAMIND
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
URL https://festivalofgenomics.com/london/en/page/2025-homepage
 
Description HDR UK Webinar: DATAMIND & Alleviate (online) 
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 Webinar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description IASP Asia Pacific Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact OR - "Oral presentation: Self-harm contacts across healthcare settings in Wales -an e-cohort study using routinely collected linked healthcare data "
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description IASP Asia Pacific Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact OR - Oral presentation: Self-harm behaviours amongst children and young people involved in family justice court proceedings: a longitudinal national data linkage study
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description MQ DATAMIND Data Science Meeting. - 23rd march 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Meeting - MQ DATAMIND Data Science Meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description MQ DATAMIND ECR Workshop. - 28th April 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact MQ DATAMIND ECR Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description MQ Data Science Conference, Swansea University 
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 TS - Poster presentation at MQ April 2024 event on 'Primary care recorded symptoms in CYP with depression and/or anxiety who self-harm".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description MQ Data Science Conference, Swansea University 
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 Conference with Panel discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description MQ Data Science Conference, Swansea University 
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 Workshop on Machine Learning within data science
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description MQ Data Science Meeting : Programming in Mental Health Research Workshop - September 2022 
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 Workshop held by MQ Data Science meeting on Programming in Mental Health Research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description MQ Data Science Meeting October 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact MQ data science meeting 24.10.2024, London AM presented - Self-harm contacts across healthcare settings in Wales: -an e-cohort study using routinely collected linked healthcare data
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description MQ Data Science Meeting October 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact ST - Oral presentation on "Power of symptoms: assessing self-harm and suicide risk in CYP with anxiety and depression"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description MQ Data Science Meeting October 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact HM - Poster presentation at MQ October 2024 event on "Racism and Mental Health and wellbeing among the youth in England".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description MQ Data Science Workshop, Swansea University 
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 HL - "Poster Presentation of NHS Executive report, titled: ''Self-harm contacts across healthcare
settings in Wales: An e-cohort study using
routinely collected linked healthcare data''"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description MQ Data Science conference 
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 HL - Poster Presentation: ''Socioeconomic Inequalities experienced by those with Severe Mental Illness - A Population-Based Linkage Study Using Primary and Secondary Care Routinely Collected Data''
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description MQ G2S online workshop. - 28th February 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact MQ G2S
online workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description MQ Stakeholder Engagement & Communication Workshop. 1st June 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact MQ Stakeholder Engagement & Communication Workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description MQ and DATAMIND Data Science ECR coffee morning June 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Informal virtual coffee morning designed for Early Career Researchers to have targeted discussion and foster meaningful connections within the field of mental health research. The focus of this session was "Top tips for securing funding for mental health research." The session facilitated focussed discussion on where to find out about funding opportunities, the challenges when applying for funding and how to overcome them, and the barriers to securing funding for international students.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description MQ and DATAMIND Data Science Meeting April 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact MQ and DATAMIND Data Science meeting
Presentation 1 title: Nesting a data science and digital therapies lab within NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Presentation 2 title: Opportunities for Engagement? Digital Mental Health
Presentation 3 title: Open Data in a Pandemic
Panel discussion with PPI
Early Career Researchers presentations
Presentation 4 title: Mental health in Europe in the COVID-19 pandemic: systematic review
Presentation 5 title: Supporting Mental Health Research through the power of large scale data and advanced analytics
Presentation 6 title: Longitudinal HIV-related population data from Africa: Steps towards greater access and interoperability
Presentation 7 title: The physical health of people with severe mental illness. What have we learned from data science and what should happen next?
Presentation 8 title: Implications of COVID-19 for mental health: findings from the Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing COVID-19 National Core Study and the CONVALESCENCE long COVID study
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://datamind.org.uk/datamind-mqs-data-science-conference-2/
 
Description MQ and DATAMIND Data Science Meeting April 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact MQ and DATAMIND Data Science Meeting April 2024
Presentation 1 title: UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration: the National Trusted Research Environment for Longitudinal Research
Presentation 2 title: Improving diagnosis of severe mental illnesses to advance precision psychiatry
Early Career Researchers presentations
Presentation 3 title: Exploring the efficacy of administrative data in research into mental ill-health in underserved groups: lessons from Northern Ireland
Panel discussion: Getting the social perspective into Mental Health Data Science
Presentation 4 title: Maximising the potential of large scale data to tackle mental health inequalities - partnerships and novel methods
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://datamind.org.uk/datamind-mqs-data-science-meeting/
 
Description MQ and DATAMIND Data Science Meeting October 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact MQ and DATAMIND Data Science meeting 19.10.2024
Presentation 1 title: Personalised Longitudinal Natural Language Processing and the AI mental health landscape
Presentation 2 title: Co-producing the Social media, Smartphone use and Self-harm in Young People (3S-YP) study
Early Career Researchers presentations
Presentation 4 title: How to Improve the Data on (Big) Data Ethics
Panel discussion: Mental Health Mission; Landscape and Set up for Using Digital and Data Technologies
Presentation 5 title: Mental Illnesses and Self-harm in Children and Young People: Findings from Recent Studies Conducted using Electronic Health Records
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://datamind.org.uk/datamind-mqs-data-science-conference-3/
 
Description MQ and DATAMIND Data Science Meeting October 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact MQ and DATAMIND Data Science Meeting October 2024
Presentation 1 title: The foundations of trust: patients and their data
Presentation 2 title: Data Science in Neuroscience Pharmaceutical R&D: Challenges and Opportunities
Early Career Researchers presentations
Middle Career Researcher presentation
Presentation 3 title: The devil's in the detail: achieving genuinely 'big' clinical data
Panel discussion: Opportunities and Challenges of Using Patient Data in Industry Partnerships
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description MQ and DATAMIND Data Science Workshop April 2023 
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 MQ & DATAMIND's workshop: Using Clinical Data for Research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://datamind.org.uk/datamind-mqs-workshop-using-clinical-data-for-research/
 
Description MQ and DATAMIND Data Science Workshop April 2024 
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 Machine Learning in Mental Health Research - self-paced learning videos covering theoretical concepts
A 3-stage workshop, combining online learning, hands-on practice, and a follow-up Q&A to embed the learning.
Part 1 online learning: Video syllabus, led by a machine learning expert, to equip researchers with theoretical skills in applying machine learning to mental health research, including cross-validation, data pre-processing, and basic algorithm coding in R.
Part 2 workshop: Practical workshop to equip researchers with practical skills in applying machine learning to mental health research, including cross-validation, data pre-processing, and basic algorithm coding in R.
Part 3 Q&A session
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://datamind.org.uk/machine-learning-in-mental-health/
 
Description MQ and DATAMIND Data Science Workshop October 2023 
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 Data Science Workshop: Epidemiological Methods for Mental Health Research Using R
Led by experienced mental health epidemiologists and R data specialists, the workshop was designed to teach early career mental health researchers and data scientists about how to apply a range of epidemiological methods to typical questions in mental health research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://datamind.org.uk/epidemiological-methods-for-mental-health-research-using-r-workshop/
 
Description MQ and DATAMIND Data Science Workshop October 2024 
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 MQ and DATAMIND Data Science Workshop October 2024: Applying NLP to healthcare text: techniques and tools.
A 3-stage workshop, combining online learning, hands-on practice, and a follow-up Q&A to embed the learning.
Learning objectives:
• Understand the need to process language when re-using electronic health records for research, the computational difficulties language poses, and how natural language processing (NLP) can help to solve these.
• Appreciate the main paradigms of NLP, and their relative strengths and weaknesses.
• Develop an overview of how language is represented computationally, and how these representations can be used to build models of text.
• Gain a basic understanding of neural networks and their use in NLP.
• Gain practical experience of building simple NLP applications using Python.
• Appreciate the broader health research context in which NLP can sit, and the development process needed to implement NLP in this context.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description MQ book interview, MQ, London. - 10th January 
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 MQ book interview, MQ, London
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Media coverage - B Bryan 2024 
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 Worked with King's press office to prepare a press release related to paper on the socioeconomic consequences of loneliness using E-Risk data. The paper gained coverage in The Telegraph, The Independent, The Mirror, The Evening Standard and Business Insider (India), as well as extensive local coverage (325 hits) in the UK, Ireland, Malaysia and Australia.

https://archive.is/NtRJT
https://www.independent.co.uk/business/lonely-secondary-school-pupils-less-likely-to-gain-employment-as-adults-study-b2512426.html?utm_source=reddit.com
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/lonely-secondary-school-pupils-less-32350996
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/lonely-secondary-school-pupils-less-likely-to-gain-employment-as-adults-study-b1145213.html
https://www.irishnews.com/news/uk/lonely-secondary-school-pupils-less-likely-to-gain-employment-as-adults-study-ATJD3OLJCVJNHEPTVXBVZS4DDQ/
https://www.ireland-live.ie/news/uk/1449327/lonely-secondary-school-pupils-less-likely-to-gain-employment-as-adults-study.html
https://www.miragenews.com/lonely-preteens-may-struggle-with-adult-1195103/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Media coverage - Dooley 2024 
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 A paper led by Niamh Dooley - post-doctoral researcher in my team - was covered in the Irish time. 'Functional outcomes among young people with trajectories of persistent childhood psychopathology.' published in LAMA Network Open.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2023/09/29/children-with-mental-health-issues-more-likely-to-have-...
 
Description Meeting with senior members of PSNI to discuss research related to firearms certificate holders 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Meeting with senior members of PSNI to discuss research related to firearms certificate holders. Small presentation followed by discussion of further analysis planned and possible policy implications
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Podcast - L Arseneault 2024 
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 Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Podcast: Arseneault, L. (2024) An epidemic of loneliness? The Why? Curve.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://shows.acast.com/the-why-curve/episodes/an-epidemic-of-loneliness
 
Description Poster presentation Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development - B Bryan 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact 'Socioeconomic consequences of loneliness: Evidence from a nationally representative study of young adults', 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development. Lisbon, 18-20/06/2024.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Presentation Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre Seminar - B Bryan 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Bryan, BT, 'Socioeconomic consequences of loneliness in young adulthood', Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre Seminar, London, 13/04/2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Presentation at Colt Foundation Annual Research Meeting - B Bryan 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact Bryan, BT, 'Linking loneliness, health and work: A mixed-methods investigation', Colt Foundation Annual Research Meeting, London, 23/04/2024.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Presentation at Colt Foundation Annual Research Meeting - Bryan 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Members of the Colt Foundation, trustees and funded researchers attend that yearly meeting in London. We get to hear about the future direction of the Foundation and also research conducted by students funded by this stimulating and supportive charity. Title of the presentation: 'Loneliness and employment outcomes in young adulthood'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Presentation at European Society at for Health & Medical Sociology Conference B Bryan 2025 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Bryan, BT, 'Employment and socioeconomic impact of loneliness' European Society at for Health & Medical Sociology Conference, Antwerp 3-5/7/2025
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Presentation at Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health - L Arseneault 2025 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health. Creating discoverability platforms. Cardiff, Wales, February 2025.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Presentation at the Life History Research Society Conference - B Bryan 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Bryan, BT, 'Socioeconomic consequences of loneliness: Evidence from a nationally representative study of young adults', Life History Research Society Conference. Montreal, 27-31/05/2024.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Presentation at the Life History Research Society Conference - K Thompson 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation and symposium lead for Life History Research Society Conference (May 2024). Symposium title: Social relationships and mental health difficulties in young people. Talk title: Social isolation and poor mental health in young people: Longitudinal genetic and environmental influences
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Presentation at the SGDP Centre - weekly seminar series - Bryan 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Title of the presentation: 'Socioeconomic consequences of loneliness in young adulthood'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Presentation entitled 'Are people with poor mental health less likely to receive Disability Benefits? A population wide record linkage study' to conference in Venice 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presentation entitled 'Are people with poor mental health less likely to receive Disability Benefits? A population wide record linkage study' to conference in Venice. A very lively discussion held....
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation entitled... Data linkage, future directions, potential and challenges...to team responsible for review of NI Social Services for children 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation trying to influence the team responsible for review of NI Social Services for children, in both our use of admin data and interest them in some of our findings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation to Welsh Government Education Policy: Understanding the mental health of pupils Educated in Other Than At School (EOTAS) A Retrospective e-cohort study utilising the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) electronic databank. - 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Understanding the mental health of pupils Educated in Other Than At School (EOTAS) A Retrospective e-cohort study utilising the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) electronic databank.

Presentation to Welsh Government Education Policy

Administrative Data Research Centres 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Presentation to Welsh Government health Policy: Understanding the mental health of pupils Educated in Other Than At School (EOTAS) A Retrospective e-cohort study utilising the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) electronic databank. - 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation to Welsh Government health Policy: Understanding the mental health of pupils Educated in Other Than At School (EOTAS) A Retrospective e-cohort study utilising the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) electronic databank. - 2023

Administrative Data Research Centres 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Presentation to data scientists at the Public Health Agency (PHA) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation to data scientists at the Public Health Agency (PHA)...this covered our current research activities and future strategic directions as well as a discussion of some of our (NI) data limitations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Presentation to inter-departmental Children's Champion Group on research activity esp related to the use of administration data 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I presented our current research portfolio and plans relating to children to about 30 people who constitute the Children's Champion Group (a group led by the the NI Children and Young Persons Commissioner). Very positive response...desire to hear more!
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation to whole DataMind team entitled 'Road Builder Innovation 2: Discoverable excluded and under-served groups' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This was the first presentation of the work schedule and plans for this Road Builder and we made the case for why we needed to look at these groups and how we would achieve our aims.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Public Health Wales - Evaluation Community of Practice event 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk about the use of AI in healthcare research for policy
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Public Launch of report on Mortality inequalities.Health Inequalities . ERSI 15th Sept 2022 
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 Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Public Launch of report on Mortality inequalities.Health Inequalities I had to make a speech/response to the launch and field questions to the general audience and press.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Research symposium on violence data science 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation and chairing at a European Congress on Domestic Violence (ECDV) symposium, focusing on natural language processing and related developments via the VISION consortium.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Speaker at the Bioethics Annual Conference 2022, University of Bristol. - 22nd March 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Conference Speaker at the Bioethics Annual Conference 2022, University of Bristol
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Speaker at the suicidal ideation webinar. - 31st March 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Speaker at the suicidal ideation webinar
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Talk to a school about psychosis 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Talk to a school about psychosis and discussion afterwards
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Talk to a school on research databases, Peterborough 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Talk to a school about research databases in the NHS, as a voluntary contribution to their BTEC programme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Talk to the Royal College of Psychiatrists Faculty of Liaison Psychiatry conference, on digitisation in liaison psychiatry 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk on clinical digitisation to the RCPsych Faculty of Liaison Psychiatry conference, 11 May 2023, and subsequent discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Thompson 2023 
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 Katie Thompson wrote a blog for Cardiff University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/innovation/2024/02/07/do-experiences-of-social-isolation-impact-the-ment...
 
Description Thompson 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Katie Thompson contributed an oral presentation at the European Psychiatric Association Paris Congress (2023). The presentation was entitled 'Do Children with ADHD Symptoms Become Socially Isolated? Longitudinal within-Person Associations in a Nationally Representative Cohort'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Thompson 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Poster presentation by Katie Thompson at the International Convention of Psychological Science (2023). The poster was entitled: Do Children with ADHD Symptoms Become Socially Isolated? Longitudinal within-Person Associations in a Nationally Representative Cohort
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Thompson 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Katie Thompson contributed a poster at the Sociogenomics workshop in Helsinki (2023). The poster was entitled 'The overlap between social isolation and mental health symptoms: Longitudinal independent pathway model in a nationally representative cohort'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Thompson 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Katie Thompson presented a poster at the European Social Science Genetics Network (2023). The poster was entitled 'The overlap between social isolation and mental health symptoms: Longitudinal independent pathway model in a nationally representative cohort'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description UK Biological Security Strategy Roundtable: Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases. - 19th April 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Meeting regarding UK Biological Security Strategy Roundtable: Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description UK-French Biomarkers Consortium 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Talk about DATAMIND
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Uses and availability of health data inn Ireland...public launch of report 
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 Over 100 people attended (virtually) this ERSI-sponsored launch of the Report. I had to make a presentation/response and field questions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description WHO Regional office for Europe on Big data analytics and AI in mental health- Talk on Using Big Data Analytics to address complex questions about mental health - 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Divison of Country Health Policies and systems at the WHO Regional office for Europe on Big data analytics and AI in mental health discussion about Using Big Data Analytics to address complex questions about mental health
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Wellcome Mental Health Data Prize - Data Science Support Workshop (Open Science). - 9th November 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Workshop - Wellcome Mental Health Data Prize - Data Science Support Workshop (Open Science)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Workshop for early-career researchers on patient/public involvement in mental health research 
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 Forum chaired by Linda Jones (Cambridge DATAMIND team). MQ (https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/) "coffee morning" for early-career researchers, on patient and public involvement/engagement in mental health research. Event date 22/2/24.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024