International Centre for Mental Health Social Research
ICMHSR News & Events
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Latest news
- ICMHSR awarded funding to evaluate social prescribing - November 2020
- What do service users value in their mental health social worker? - May 2019
- Making sense of voice hearing conference - April 2019
- Report released - Social, economic and health impacts of WaveLength's work on loneliness and isolation - March 2016
- Most cited article in 2014 for the journal Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences - January 2016
- New report - Street Triage service evaluation - Report (PDF
, 1,267kb) - January 2016
- TEDx talk from Connecting People researcher, including her social group run on the basis of the intervention - TEDx talk
- New ICMHSR project - Outcomes of mental effectiveness training for undergraduate students - December 2015
- New ICMHSR project - Mental health training intervention for North Yorkshire Police - November 2015
- Article in Forum magazine for teaching and learning at the University of York - tailoring mental health social interventions for diverse contexts - October 2015
- ESRC Seminar Series on Reimagining Professionalism in Mental Health: Towards co-production - October 2015
- Video of our work in Sierra Leone - September 2015
- India - UK - Australia research collaboration on chronic disease - September 2015
- Our key role in new graduate route into mental health social work - September 2015
- Meredith Newlin article on Ebola in Sierra Leone in The Conversation - August 2015
- Mental effectiveness training for people with experience of using mental health services - Final report (PDF
- Connecting People Intervention - SSCR findings (PDF
- ICMHSR is part of a new collaboration with North Yorkshire Police looking at mental health - July 2015
- Martin Webber receives an Anniversary Chair in Social Work - July 2015
- Report released - Mental Effectiveness Training Pilot (PDF
- New research project evaluating the music group at HMP Wealstun - March 2015
- New research project on mental health street triage with North Yorkshire police - February 2015
- Public launch of International Centre for Mental Health Social Research - June 2014
- Shared lived experience - how personal is personal? - May 2014
- Mental health social interventions in Sierra Leone: report of visit - May 2014
- Launch of ICMHSR, public lecture by Dr Lynette Joubert - June 2014
- Marking University Mental Health & Wellbeing Day - February 2014
- Launch of ClearFear game - September 2013
- New funding for social intervention work in Sierra Leone - September 2013
- ICMHSR PhD studentship opportunity - July 2013
- University press release on the introduction of ICMHSR - July 2013
Other news
Forthcoming events
Previous events
- Conference: Making sense of voice hearing - 22 March 2019
- Event: Epistemic Activism and Depressed Selfhood: A Digital Ethnography of Twitter Content - 13 March 2019
- Reconciling regulatory knowledge with co-production - February 2017, ESRC Seminar Series
- Power-sharing within coercive environments - July 2017, ESRC Seminar Series
- Education and training, supervision and professionalism based on co-production - October 2017, ESRC Seminar Series
- Contemporary developments in mental health practice: a help and/or a hindrance to co-production and power-sharing - July 2016, ESRC Seminar Series
- Contemporary developments in mental health policy and commissioning: a help/and or hindrance to power-sharing - October 2016, ESRC Seminar Series
- Enacting co-production - 17 February 2016, ESRC Seminar Series
- Introducing a new model of Connecting People - 21 January 2016, Mental Health of Social Work seminar
- Applying the concept of democratic professionalism in mental health - 5 January 2016, ESRC Seminar Series
- Connecting People Intervention presentation at the Mersey Care Annual Mental Health Social Care Conference - 6th November 2015
- ICMHSR Seminar, 8 June 2015: Nicholas Pleace, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Housing Policy, University of York - Mental Health and Homelessness: New Understanding and New Solutions
- ICMHSR Seminar, 5 March 2015: David Ansari, Department of Comparative Development, University of Chicago - Diagnosing Disorder and Recognizing Difference: Training in Immigrant Mental Health and Social Services in Paris
- ICMHSR Seminar, 24 November 2014: Valerie Moran, University of York - Investigating costs and performance of mental health care providers in England
- ICMHSR Seminar, 8 September 2014: Lisa Peschel and Sam Simpson, University of York - Fun and mental health
- ICMHSR Launch Event, 24 June 2014, 6.15pm: Dr Lynette Joubert, University of Melbourne - 'Frogs don't need to get hot': Improving mental health through understanding our social context
- ICMHSR Seminar, 20 June 2014, 2-4pm, RCeSS Training Room, Innovation Way: Dr Shakil Malik, Consultant Psychiatrist & Senior Clinical Director, Sussex Partnership NHS Trust - Developing psycho-social resilience in school children. A Sussex - Pakistan collaborative project.
- ICMHSR & MRC Seminar, 09 May 2014: Dr Martin Webber - Social Work in the 21st Century
- ICMHSR Seminar, 12 February 2014: Dr Jorun Rugkåsa, Dr Krysia Canvin & Francis Vergunst, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford - Community Treatment Orders: effectiveness, understanding and impact
- ICMHSR Seminar, 26 September 2013: Meredith Newlin - Developing social interventions for people with mental health problems in Sierra Leone
- ICMHSR Seminar, 12 July 2013: Dr Lisa Brophy - Ethical, policy and legal challenges in supporting people on Community Treatment Orders.
- ICMHSR Seminar, 14 April 2013: Dr Elizabeth McDermott - Hard-to-reach youth online: methodological advances in self-harm research. Includes audio recording.