The Institute of Mental Health
The Institute of Mental Health is the UK’s prime location for inter-disciplinary research in the mental health field. The Institute is a partnership between two highly respected organisations, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and the University of Nottingham, bringing together the healthcare and education sectors to achieve ‘Research Excellence for Innovation’. Since our formation in 2006, the Institute has established a track record of success, with achievements in pioneering education provision and innovative service-facing research, taking the organisation from humble beginnings to the international stage in a short time.
Our mission is to improve people’s lives through the use of ground-breaking research and pioneering educational activities. We are dedicated to improving the care and treatment of people who use our services through innovating, developing, exploiting and distributing knowledge about mental health.
Our key activities are to:
• Promote research
• Support clinical practice
• Provide educational courses
• Act as an expert resource in promoting best practice
The Institute is the UK’s prime location for inter-disciplinary research in the mental health field (psychiatry, psychology, sociology, business, law, nursing, economics and statistics). We are particularly strong in specific areas such as neuro-imaging, personality disorder, ADHD, systematic reviewing, implementation and organisation/service innovation.
We currently attract approximately £6 million in any one year in external research grants to fund our work, have 20 full professors among our staff and publish 200 peer-reviewed journal papers a year. We have 39 of our own unique Managed Innovation Networks (MINs) and 150 members including associates, fellows, senior fellows and professors.
Our portfolio of training and development opportunities attracts 200 students each year. Courses offered include one-off modules, diplomas, BA, MA and PhD degrees in mental health subjects. For more details, please visit www.institutemh.org.uk/-education-/home or contact Suzanne Howard, Academic Programme Administrator, on 07917 837430 or email suzanne.howard@nottshc.nhs.uk
Our growing reputation was recognised in 2008 with an external award of £17 million to set up a new service-facing research centre. This centre is called the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (otherwise known as the CLAHRC) for Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. The CLAHRC is designed to accelerate the use of research in improving patient care across the region.
Education
The Institute of Mental Health runs a number of education and training programmes. For more details, please visit www.institutemh.org.uk/-education-/home or contact Suzanne Howard, Academic Programme Administrator, on 07917 837430 or email suzanne.howard@nottshc.nhs.uk
MHRN East Midlands Hub plus South Yorkshire
The regional centre of the Mental Health Research Network (MHRN) provides support for large-scale, high-quality research into mental health and social care in the NHS. The East Midlands regional centre 'or Hub' is one of eight regional offices for the Network across the country.
The MHRN is part of England's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) with a mission to help make research about mental health happen within the NHS in England. The aim is to promote research so that we can improve treatments and services for people with mental health problems.
The team's staff of experienced researchers, managers and mental health professionals work in local universities and NHS organisations around the region. The main East Midlands office is within the Institute of Mental Health in Nottingham, with a South Yorkshire base in Sheffield and further offices in Lincoln and Derby.
The Hub works with everyone who needs to be involved in research projects – researchers, mental health professionals, people with experience of mental health problems, their families, and research and development staff based in NHS Trusts.
They work on studies that are based within mental health services, within social care services and within primary care services. The MHRN supports both publicly-funded research studies and projects that are sponsored by industry. All the research projects aim to improve treatment and care or to find out more about different mental health problems.
The East Midlands plus South Yorkshire Hub is a partnership between the universities of Lincoln and Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and the South Yorkshire Comprehensive Local Research Network.
To find out more, please contact Hub Lead Professor Richard Morriss or Hub Manager Ann Priddey
For more information please visit http://www.institutemh.org.uk/x-research-/research-governance/mhrn-east-midlands-hub-plus-south-yorkshire
CLAHRC
CLAHRC (Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care) brings together the University of Nottingham and local health and social care providers in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire (NDL) to conduct applied research that will have a direct impact on health and social care services.
It is jointly funded by its partner members and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), one of nine across England.
Its mission is to: “undertake high quality, applied research and related education in order to enable a step change in the way research is delivered and services are designed.”
For more information please visit www.clahrc-ndl.nihr.ac.uk/
