Unit for Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing

Description

We are the Unit for Adult Mental Health and Wellbeing within the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health. We conduct research to understand risk factors for poor mental health and to help promote the health and wellbeing of people affected by mental health problems. Our work supports clinical services as well as local community organisations to ensure that service users are supported through evidence-based approaches.  We lead on postgraduate teaching within the Centre, delivering MSc Mental Health programmes including Psychological Therapies, Forensic Psychology and Mental Health and Cultural Psychology and Psychiatry.

We are a diverse team from multiple backgrounds, including psychiatrists, psychologists, arts therapists, qualitative and mixed-methods researchers and epidemiologists. We work in a range of settings including community, secondary care and forensic services with populations experiencing serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or psychosis, personality disorders, eating disorders, alcohol misuse, intellectual disabilities, depression and anxiety. We also conduct research into the impacts of, and interventions for domestic and youth violence and perinatal mental health care.

We use a wide range of research methods including randomised controlled trials, feasibility studies, scoping and systematic reviews, cohort studies, qualitative research and participatory arts-based approaches.  Additionally, we work closely with service users and carers with lived experience of mental health problems and involve experts by experience in all aspects of our research.

Our Work

Our Funders

NIHR, Bart’s Charity, MQ, ESRC, LISS-DTP and I-Care-DTC, Horizon Europe, UKRI

Contact Us

Hannah Jones h.jones@qmul.ac.uk 

Alexandra Burton  a.burton@qmul.ac.uk

Yvonne Carter Building

58 Turner Street

London

E1 2AB