Clinical Research Groups
The Mental Health Research Network’s Clinical Research Groups (CRGs) bring together academics, clinicians, researchers, people with experience of mental health problems and their family members from all over England to discuss ideas for research in a specific area, and produce proposals that can be turned into funded studies to run on the MHRN.
Nearly 50 Clinical Research Groups have each met for a period of two years since the launch of the MHRN in 2003, and each one has developed at least two research proposals that have formed the basis of applications to funding bodies.
The Clinical Research Groups that are currently meeting are:
Autism Clinical Research Group, chaired by Dr Dougal Hare, University of Manchester.
Diversion Plus: The Interface of Mental Health Services and the Criminal Justice System, chaired by Dr Jane Senior, University of Manchester.
Improving the detection and management of anxiety disorders in primary care, chaired by Dr Marta Buszewicz, University College London.
Deaf child and adolescent mental health services (Deaf CAMHS) (meeting until 9/5/12), chaired by Dr Barry Wright, York Medical School.
Personalised care in mental health (meeting until 14/4/12), chaired by Professor Martin Knapp, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.
Early intervention in potentially severe mental health problems (meeting until 9/5/12), chaired by Sonia Johnson, University College Londom, and Professor Swaran Singh, Warwick University.
The large scale projects about mental health that are currently running are:
Improving the mental health of Veterans of the UK Armed Forces, convened by Professor Chris Brewin
Effectiveness of care and recovery in mental health learning disabilities, convened by Professor Angela Hassiotis
Evaluating models of working across the primary-secondary care mental health interface, convened Dr Marta Buszewicz
Soteria UK: Investigating therapeutic residential community approaches for psychosis in the UK, convened by Richard Bentall
Developing an outcomes-focused set of quality indicators paired to cost of provision to bring a value focus to NHS mental health services, convened by Professor Peter Fonagy and Dr James Mountford
The Affective Disorders Research Consortium (ADRC): A strategic partnership for the development and implementation of evidence-based treatments and their associated mechanisms for anxious and depressive disorders across the lifespan, convened by Professor Tim Dalgleish
Developing Addiction Recovery Monitoring and Support (ARMS) as a multi-site, multi-disciplinary platform for cluster-randomised analysis of the impact of complex interventions in addiction, convened by Dr Lawrence Reed
Promoting Long term efficacy of ADHD therapies: Towards tailored neuro-therapeutics, convened by Professor Sonuga-Barke
page last updated 20 December 2011