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Co-development of patient reported-outcome measures

Niamh Molloy, NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre PhD Student in the Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London explores in this blog how people with lived experience are contributing to developing outcome measures in mental health research. 

 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 4 Feb 2025

Brand strategy to brain science

The IoPPN's new blog series 'My IoPPN PhD' hears from PhD students about how they came about to undertake a project with their supervisors at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London. NIHR Maudsley BRC student Pooja Schmill, whose path to exploring psychological interventions for chronic medical conditions was shaped by her experiences in the corporate world and a profound personal loss.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 19 Sep 2024

In search of lost treatment: how mental health research can be part of patient care plans

Dr Maria Antonietta (Etta) Nettis is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the National Psychosis Unit at King’s College London and a researcher within the Research and Development (R&D) team at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Etta writes about why research at the Trust is so important for improving patient care and her team’s facilitating role.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 30 Aug 2022

Mental health stigma on Twitter during COVID-19: service user perspectives

Georgie Hudson is a Research Assistant at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre. She recently co-authored a paper, in the Journal of Mental Health that analysed stigma on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic from the viewpoint of mental health service users. In this blog, she discusses the findings of her research, how best to study this complex concept and the way in which social media discussions around mental health changed during the pandemic.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 17 Aug 2022

South Asian Heritage Month - an interview with Pratik

As part of South Asian Heritage Month, King's CRF administrator calls on people from South Asian backgrounds to get involved in NIHR-supported research.

By NIHR Wellcome King's Clinical Research Facility at 10 Aug 2022