Centre-led research projects
HERON is a research and public engagement network, focusing on mental health and the interface between mental and physical health. HERON aims to raise critical awareness of, help people share experiences about, and identify ways to reduce inequalities in health and healthcare.
HYPE is an online recruitment and resource platform that aims to facilitate young people’s involvement in research and improve access to online and community-based social and health-related resources.
The INTREPID II research programme investigates psychotic disorders in three countries: India, Nigeria and Trinidad. The overall aim of this project is to address the research questions: what is the variability – in incidence, presentation, outcome and impact – of psychotic disorders in diverse developing countries?
Mindmap aims to identify the opportunities offered by the urban environment for the promotion of mental wellbeing and cognitive function of older individuals in Europe.
REACH aims to investigate the impact of social, psychological, and biological risk and protective factors on the occurrence and persistence of mental health problems over time in large, ethnically diverse cohorts of adolescents.
Urban Brain Lab explores the ways that urban sociologists, neuroscientists and mental health professionals can work together to understand the complex interactions between the socio-political life of the city and the development of psychiatric problems, with a view to guiding practices that can help create ‘mental health friendly’ cities.
Centre-affiliated research projects
The aim of this study is to identify resilience factors that are linked to either prevention of depression and anxiety, or to recovery in adolescents and young people. This research focuses on young people living in three large Latin American cities in Argentina, Columbia and Peru.
The EU-GEI project has aimed to identify, over a 5-year period, the interactive genetic, clinical and environmental determinants, involved in the development, severity and outcome of schizophrenia.
The aim of the e-BRAIN study is to see if information from brain scans and biological samples can be used to understand what makes young people more or less likely to maintain good mental health and cope with stress.
Completed research projects
The overarching aim of the LIFEPATH project was to understand the determinants of diverging ageing pathways among individuals belonging to different socio-economic groups.
Mental health, migration and the megacity untangles the relations between migration, poverty and inter-generational cycles of poor mental health. This research project is part of a larger programme lead by Oxford University which is called Urban Transformations.
The SELCoH study was designed to collect accurate and up-to-date information about both the physical and mental health of people living within the local communities of Southwark and Lambeth, London. This study aimed to get a better understanding of the social experiences and health needs of the highly diverse communiites, and enable service providers in these areas to plan and improve services more effectively.