This year’s World Mental Health Day theme “Access to Services – Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies” resonates with many during these uncertain times. At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust…
An Oxford academic paper that suggests current sleep scoring criteria may lead to biased results between sexes, and across age groups, has been brought back into the spotlight with a…
MQ is the UK’s leading mental health research charity and it has launched its new grant round for funding for a Fellowship award. The MQ Fellows Award empowers exceptional early-career…
Oxford’s first Neurodiversity Conference, hosted by the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC: Oxford Health), took place recently, bringing together clinicians, researchers, local organisations, members of the public and the neurodivergent community to discuss current and future research…
Research funded by the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC: Oxford Health) has found that socioeconomic inequalities in children’s mental health are evident by age five and persist throughout childhood…
Dr Asha Ladwa, NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC) Mission Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Research Psychologist at the University of Exeter’s Mood Disorders Centre has shared her experience of taking part in the…
New research from the University of Oxford, supported by the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre’s (BRC: Oxford Health) Preventing Multiple Morbidities Theme, has found that people with severe mental illness…
A new academic paper, published in the journal Brain, explores how the National Health Service (NHS) can improve its research delivery by learning from private sector organisations. The paper, titled…
We’re delighted to share that University of Oxford’s Dr. Tessa Reardon, co-leading the WISDOM Schools Research Network within the BRC: Oxford Health Mental Health in Development (MHID) Theme, is at…
The NIHR Oxford and BRC: Oxford Health Senior Research Fellowship scheme recognises and supports mid-career individuals with the potential and trajectory to become future leaders in translational research in the…
Dr Dominic O’Connor, Research Associate at the University of Manchester, is working with the NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC) Mission’s Children and Young People’s Mental Health workstream to explore the…
Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC: Oxford Health) has recently launched a pilot Reciprocal Mentoring Scheme, which offers a unique opportunity for both early career and established colleagues to play…
An ultrasound device that can precisely stimulate areas deep in the brain without surgery has been developed by researchers from University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (NDCN) and…
The Centre for Suicide Research investigates the extent, nature and causes of self-harm and suicide, with the aim of translating the findings into implications for prevention, treatment and support. Led…
The NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC) Mission’s Children and Young Peoples’ (CYP) Workstream, led by Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Helen Minnis at the University of Glasgow,…
Several research colleagues from our Mental Health in Development Theme have been shortlisted for upcoming awards in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH). The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental…
Recently, stakeholders from across the mental health research landscape gathered at the Science Gallery in London for a workshop hosted by the NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC) Mission’s…
The NIHR has announced a £6.5 million investment to establish a UK-wide Commercial Research Delivery Centre (CRDC) Network, hosted by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. This new network will…
A study, supported by the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC: Oxford Health), has found that the brain’s networks activate in structured cycles. The study “Large-scale cortical functional networks are…
Plans to transform an NHS site into a major mental health and medical research campus in Headington have been submitted to Oxford City Council by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. …
