Reader in Global Health & Anthropology
Visiting Research Associate
Senior Lecturer in Global Health
Lecturer in Global Health
Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine
Professor of User-Led Research
Lecturer in Global Mental Health
Professor of Social Gerontology
Lecturer in Global Health
Mental health, migration and the megacity in São Paulo
Looking at the relationship between mental health and urban transformation since the late nineteenth-century in São Paulo.
The Human Brain Project: The Foresight Lab
Building a completely new ICT infrastructure for neuroscience and understanding the human brain and its diseases to emulate its computational capabilities.
Urban Brain Lab
Understanding the connections between the social and the neurological lives of urban citizens, with particular attention to mental health.
Global Social Medicine Network
Bringing together scholars from all regions who are committed to a vision of social medicine as a vital intersection of social sciences, medical practice and policy. Led by Professor Nikolas Rose, the network is funded by a Wellcome Trust Small Grant in Humanities and Social Science (£42,043) and launched in 2018.
Find out more about the Global Social Medicine Network
Neurovision
Exploring the ways in which film introduced a new way of creating, staging and producing of a neurological ‘imaginary’ for neurologist-filmmakers. This 2016 project was led by Professor Nikolas Rose and was funded by the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy Faculty Research Fund (£25,000).
Find out more about Neurovision
Mental health and justice
Addressing the complex interface where mental health and mental healthcare interact with principles of human rights. Funded by the Wellcome Trust, Dr Hannah Kienzler leads Work Stream 2 'Support and independence in the community' and Dr Ursula Read is a postdoctoral researcher supporting the project.
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Research for health in conflict: Developing capability, partnerships and research in the Middle and Near East (R4HC-MENA)
Striving to build research and policy capacity in conflict-affected areas, focusing on health, political economy of health and complex non-communicable diseases, such as mental health and cancer. It also aims to facilitate more effective translation of research into policy. Dr Hanna Kienzler co-leads the 'Mental Health and Conflict' workstream of this Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) funded project.
Find out more about R4HC-MENA
Together for mental health: Using visual research methods to understand how health workers, families and healers work together to improve mental health and reduce coercion and restraint in Ghana and Indonesia
Exploring how mental health nurses work together with faith-based and traditional healers in Ghana and Indonesia to prevent the use of coercion and restraint and improve care for persons affected by mental illness. Although there have been long-standing calls for such collaboration there has been little investigation of how such relationships work in practice in specific locations with differing healing traditions and mental health systems. The use of participatory visual methods aims to engage stakeholders, including persons with lived experience of mental illness, across differing socio-economic backgrounds, educational status and languages. The project will build a south-to-south network to share experiences and examples of best practice to reduce the use of coercion and improve care for people with mental illness.
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Mental health & society reading group
Convened by Rasmus Birk (GHSM), Ursula Read (GHSM) and Gargie Ahmad (IoPPN). This reading group is held on the last Thursday of the month (9:30-11.00am). Location alternates between IoPPN (Denmark Hill) and GHSM (Bush House). We brings together scholars across disciplines with an interest in critical social theory on mental health. We engage in a variety of readings to stimulate conversation across different fields and widen our theoretical perspectives. Readings are circulated two weeks prior to the group meeting. We are open to suggestions of topics/themes/readings. If you are interested in attending please email Ursula Read (ursula.read@kcl.ac.uk).