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As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2025, ‘Zine-making workshop: Stories of loneliness and substance use’ was held at Peckham Levels on 4 November 2025.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 18 Nov 2025New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has shown striking inequalities between ethnic groups in the rate of involuntary admissions to mental health units during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 14 Nov 2025The recent pandemic revealed a close link between feeling lonely and increased substance use which, in turn, can damage relationships and create a cycle of loneliness. In this blog Jonathan Crabtree, Post Graduate researcher at the IoPPN and the NIHR Maudsley BRC CEDI lead, Dr Mariana Pinto da Costa, a Senior Lecturer at the IoPPN and a Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, explore the link between loneliness and substance use disorders using real-world clinical data.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 19 Aug 2025
In this blog Alice Wickersham, Research Associate at King's IoPPN, reflects on the journey of exploring the data from the Department of Education and data from Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) system, how she discovered a mismatch in their ethnicity variables and what this means for research in this area. With other authors from IoPPN and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust she has published a paper on this subject in BMJ Open.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 6 Mar 2024Jaya Chaturvedi recently won the Best Student Paper Award at MedInfo 2023, the 19th world congress on medical and health conference, in Sydney, Australia. Jaya is a KCL DRIVE-Health CDT PhD Student in the Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. Jaya writes about the process and findings from her winning paper.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 10 Aug 2023
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