Understanding and Mapping Mental Health and Applied Research Methods

1. Understanding and Mapping Mental Health

Archaeology

• Socio-evolutionary perspectives on emotions and empathy, plus role of neurodiverse in society

Key contact: Penny Spikins

Arts and Creative Technologies

• Creative and digital storytelling, nature, and environment

Key contacts: Debbie Maxwell and Jonathan Hook

• Theatre, affect, trauma in Jewish ghettos

Key contact: Lisa Peschel

• How does engagement in the social and creative opportunities provided by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) at the University of York develops awareness of mental health needs and support among Arts and Humanities staff and students?

Key contacts: Marianna Cortesi, Federico Pendenza and Liz Haddon

Borthwick Institute for Archives

• Mental Health Archives; holding archives for all of the major mental health care institutions in York

Key contacts Gary Brannan 

• Mental health records from the 19th and early 20th from York-based psychiatric hospitals known at the time as “lunatic asylums”

Key contact:  Laura Yeoman

Centre For Health Economics

• Conflict, violence, forced displacement and mental health 

Key contact: Rodrigo Moreno-Serra

Centre for Women's Studies

• Autø/gnøsis; recasting the borderline not as a patient to be diagnosed but as a diagnostician

Key contact: Francesca Lewis

Education

• Developmental neuroscience of wellbeing

Key contact: Dusana Dorjee

Education / Sociology

• Digital and online risks to mental health

Key contacts: Beth Bell, Jennifer Chubb and Steph Jesper

English and Related Literature

• Suicide and Poetry

Key contact: JT Welsch

Environment

• Wellbeing and urbanisation in Global South

Key contact: Steve Cinderby

Health Sciences

• The experiences of voice hearing within mental health treatment settings from the perspectives of people who hear voices and mental health practitioners

Key contact: Rob Allison

History

• Grief through the lens of eighteenth-century understandings of this emotion

Key contact: Helen Metcalfe

Philosophy

• Grief

Key contacts: Matthew Ratcliffe and Louise Richardson

• New approaches to working with dreams for those with PTSD

Key contact: Tom Stoneham and Rob Davies

•  A Phenomenological Analysis of Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder; how those with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) experience their sense of self

Key contact: Jake Dorothy

• The hidden side of depression; what's in a metaphor?

Key contact: Angelos Sofocleous

Psychology

• Differences in cognition in mental illness

Key contact: Alexandra Pike

• Interdisciplinary understandings of psychosis and hallucination

Key contacts: Clara Humpston and Robert Dudley

Sociology

• 'Explaining Mental Illness'

Key contact: Baptiste Brossard

2. Applied Mental Health Research Methods

Centre for Health Economics (CHE)

• Causal impact evaluation of health interventions and policies using statistics, causal inference and machine learning, global health economics

Key contact: Noemi Kreif

• The impact from physical health shocks to mental health status and utilisation using survey and administrative data 

Key contact: Wei Song

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)

• Evidence synthesis

Key contact: Rachel Churchill

Education

• Applied genetics in relation to education and mental health plus neurodiversity

Key contact: Kathryn Asbury

Hull York Medical School (HYMS)

• Psychometric epidemiology, causal inference from observational data using machine learning, compassion in care

Key contact: Paul Tiffin

• Advanced statistical methods, using machine learning with mental health data to aid causal inference

Key contact: Lewis Paton