2025
13 JANUARY 2025
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Making a Difference Through Your Research: Getting Started on Research Impact as an Early Career Researcher. Speakers: Dr Ruth Naughton-Doe Summary Background: Are you wondering how to begin the long journey of translating your research findings into meaningful, measurable impact? Ruth Naughton-Doe will share her story from her NIHR Three Schools Mental Health Programme Fellowship which explored solutions to perinatal loneliness. Ruth will reflect on how she built a research network, obtained funding for spin-off projects implementing the findings of her research, and is beginning to track and measure the changes that are happening in practice and research. |
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30 JANUARY 2025
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Care gaps among people presenting to the hospital following self-harm. Speaker: Dr Sarah Steeg Summary: Dr Sarah Steeg, Three Schools’ Mental Health Fellowship award holder, will present findings from her research into care gaps among people who have harmed themselves. Understanding the care and support people receive after they have sought help for self-harm is vital. Appropriate and timely care can help prevent further self-harm and is key for suicide prevention. Most research to date has focussed on the role of mental health services, including outpatient care, psychological therapies, crisis home treatment teams and inpatient mental health services. However, general practitioners (GPs), voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) services and social services can play a key role in providing self-harm aftercare. During this seminar, Sarah will discuss the types of services individuals accessed after self-harming and identify specific groups that may be experiencing gaps in care. She will also address the importance of co-developing measures of patients’ needs in collaboration with clinicians and individuals with lived experience of self-harm.
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12 FEBRUARY 2025
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Living well with severe mental ill-health: learning from implementing physical health support in different regional contexts.
Speakers: Emily Oliver, Ilaria Pina, Philippa Shaw, Zuneera Khurshid and Dan Steward
Summary: Enhancing physical health support for people living with severe mental ill-health is key to addressing the health inequalities experienced by this group. The seminar will bring together learning from different implementation approaches across the UK, sharing practical and scalable solutions on how to transform and reallocate resources within healthcare systems. This will lead to the promotion of conversations around care to better serve those living with severe mental ill-health to live healthy, longer and fulfilling lives.
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20 FEBRUARY 2025
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Beyond Tokenism: Meaningful Participation in Healthcare Innovation
Speaker: Dr David Hunt
Involving individuals with lived experience and relevant staff in research and improvement initiatives is fundamental for improving health-related experiences and outcomes. When done well, this approach ensures those core individuals in healthcare shape the development of research and improvement projects, aligning interventions with their needs and priorities to create sustainable change that is meaningful and implementable. However, some projects risk tokenism, where these groups are invited to contribute without clear guidance on their roles or when they should input, resulting in their insights being insufficiently incorporated into future developments. In this talk, David will explore how to avoid these pitfalls by addressing the challenges of meaningful engagement. An example will be provided to demonstrate how meaningful participation can be achieved, with a focus on ensuring transparency in how insights are translated into tangible improvements.
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6 MARCH 2025
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The Commercial Determinants of Mental Health
Speakers: Mark Petticrew and Alice Tompson, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
There’s a growing understanding of the ways businesses can impact our physical health, for example through products such as alcohol and tobacco. But what about their impact on our mental health? At this session, researchers from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will provide an overview of the Commercial Determinants of Health. They will then share the findings from their NIHR Three Schools funded project bringing together the evidence on the commercial determinants of mental health – including social media and gambling. They will also share what they found regarding population-level interventions to address the commercial determinants of mental health. |
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20 MARCH 2025
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Examining Access to Mental Health Services for Social Work-Experienced Young People
Speakers: Taliah Drayak; Julia Mannes and Robbie Duschinsky
Many children and young people with social work involvement experience mental health difficulties. Yet, little is known about factors affecting their access to Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). This session will present quantitative and qualitative findings from the “CAMHS Referrals and Outcomes for Adolescents and Children with Social Workers” (COACHES) study. It will cover:
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8 APRIL 2025
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Technology to Aid Preparation for NHS Talking Therapies
Speakers: Led by Nathan Hodson, Co-Lead (with Domenico Giacco), University of Warwick
1.7 million people are referred to NHS Talking Therapies annually. These short-focused courses of therapy are the first-line treatment for most people with anxiety and depression and can have a life-changing benefit for patients. However many patients face a significant wait and then struggle with the courses. Certain groups have been identified as currently disengaging more than others, including neurodiverse people and British Muslims. Nathan presents findings from his research into effective preparation for NHS Talking Therapies courses. He shares lessons from co-producing content to address concerns about talking therapies. He will also demonstrate how digital patient information technology offers a low-cost means of aiding preparation, increasing engagement and improving outcomes. |
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25 APRIL 2025
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Engaging marginalised young people in education
Speakers: Rhiannon Barker
Rates of school suspension and exclusion across the UK continue to rise. In the Autumn term of 2023/24 there were 346,279 suspensions. Children who are school excluded are both more likely to suffer mental health challenges and to become involved in criminal behaviours.
During this seminar, Rhiannon will talk about her qualitative Three Schools Fellowship which explored the intersections of school exclusion, mental health and involvement in criminal behaviour. She will discuss her public engagement work and show a video based around some of the research findings, produced by a team with experience of the issues being studied. She will conclude by involving the audience in a discussion considering how future research can build on interventions to promote school engagement.
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