Dr Julie Williams is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Implementation Science, King’s College London, who is working to support the physical health of those using mental health services. As part of a funding application, Julie recently consulted with our Race and Ethnicity Advisory (READ) Group, which provides researchers with an opportunity to hear the views of individuals from under-represented ethnic communities on conducting mental health research.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 13 Jun 2022
TrialBlazers, a two-week campaign led by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), took place earlier this month. It recognised those who volunteer to take part in health and care research and called on people across the UK to take part in research.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 31 May 2022
Jemma is a Service User Research Ambassador at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, which involves promoting the importance of research to the Trust’s service users. She took up the role after taking part in two research studies into psychosis at the Trust. Here she talks about what it was like to be part of research.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 16 May 2022
Kavita Bains, an assistant psychologist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, is a member of our Race and Ethnicity Advisory (READ) group, where researchers can consult with individuals from under-represented ethnic communities on how best to conduct mental health research. In this blog, she writes about the barriers faced by ethnic minority communities in accessing research and how the READ group can help overcome these.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 7 Feb 2022
A retiree is urging people to help south London researchers find the answers to beating dementia by volunteering to take part in vital health research.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 16 Jun 2021
