Regional offices (hubs)
The day-to-day business of the Mental Health Research Network is carried out at eight regional offices (called hubs) throughout England. Our teams of clinical studies officers (CSOs) are based at these offices (although individual CSOs are often physically located within mental health trusts where there are MHRN-supported studies running). Each hub also has an e-science officer who can offer researchers specialist IT support and advice about local NHS and academic systems and other technical aspects of research projects.
Our hub teams have good working relationships with the R&D teams within the NHS trusts that sit within their geographical boundaries and keep up to date with changes and developments in local NHS services. They can help researchers find local collaborators and investigators working in the services that offer treatment, care and support to the potential participants studies are trying to reach.
They can also introduce researchers to people who have experience of mental health problems and members of their families who are willing to act as consultants, advisors, steering group members or researchers – and support people with experience of mental health problems, and their family members, who want to get involved in research projects.
Each of our hubs is run by a small Executive team of experienced researchers and mental health professionals who have extensive networks of contacts within mental health, social care and primary care services. They can advise about the practicalities of setting up research locally, and introduce their contacts. See the Regional office (hub) leads page to find out about the individuals who lead each Executive team.
Contact your local hub manager to find out about the support they can offer research teams and people with experience of mental health problems.
MHRN East Anglia Hub
MHRN East Midlands Hub plus South Yorkshire
MHRN Heart of England Hub
MHRN North East Hub
MHRN North London Hub
MHRN North West Hub
MHRN South London and South East Hub
MHRN West Hub
MHRN East Anglia Hub
Hub manager: Angela Browne
email: angela.browne@cpft.nhs.uk
telephone: 01223 746 135
MHRN East Anglia Hub
Douglas House
Trumpington Road
Cambridge CB2 8AH
MHRN East Midlands Hub plus South Yorkshire
Hub manager: Ann Priddey
email: ann.priddey@nottingham.ac.uk
telephone: 0115 823 1302
MHRN East Midlands Hub plus South Yorkshire
Institute of Mental Health
Sir Colin Campbell Building
University of Nottingham Innovation Park
Triumph Road
Nottingham NG7 2TU
MHRN Heart of England Hub
Hub manager: Carly Cooper
email: carly.cooper@bsmhft.nhs.uk
or heartofenglandhub@bsmhft.nhs.uk
telephone: 0121 301 4326
MHRN Heart of England Hub
Research and Innovation
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Radclyffe House
66-68 Hagley Road
Birmingham B16 8PF
MHRN North East Hub
Hub manager (acting): Saffra Knox
email: saffra.knox@durham.ac.uk
telephone: 0191 256 3290
MHRN North East Hub
Academic Psychiatry
Newcastle General Hospital
Westgate Road
Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE4 6BE
MHRN North London Hub
Hub manager: Sandra O'Sullivan
email: s.osullivan@imperial.ac.uk
telephone: 020 7386 1237
MHRN North London Hub
Claybrook Centre
(Imperial College London, Charing Cross Campus)
St Dunstan's Road
London W6 8RP
MHRN North West Hub
Hub manager: Moira Winters
email: moira.winters@lancashirecare.nhs.uk
telephone: 01772 773 515
MHRN North West Hub
The LANTERN Centre
Vicarage Lane
Preston PR2 8DY
MHRN South London and South East Hub
Hub manager: Elizabeth Hutt
email: elizabeth.hutt@kcl.ac.uk
telephone: 020 7848 5015
MHRN South London and South East Hub
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
PO 39, De Crespigny Park
London SE5 8AF
MHRN West Hub
Hub manager: Jean Mulligan
email: jean.mulligan@bristol.ac.uk
telephone: 0117 331 3363
MHRN West Hub
Academic Unit of Psychiatry
School of Social and Community Medicine
University of Bristol
Oakfield House
Oakfield Grove
Clifton
Bristol BS8 2BN
page last updated 1 February 2012