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We collaborate with a number of academics from Queen Mary, City - St George's, University of Cambridge and University College London.
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Queen Mary
City - St George's
University of Cambridge, and
University College London
Within the university’s Institute for Population Health Sciences, we collaborate primarily with academics from the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health.
Clinical Reader in Intellectual Disability Psychiatry
Psychosocial interventions, experiences of stigma and health inequalities in people with intellectual disability; psychiatric morbidity and service use in people with borderline intellectual impairment
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Music Therapy
Developing and testing music therapy, arts therapies and arts in health interventions to meet mental health needs in specific clinical contexts; understanding the views and experiences of service users; recovery; inpatient services; building capacity for patient and public engagement in music therapy research; developing methods to capture the role of music and other art forms in therapeutic processes.
Deputy Institute Director
Leading the NIHR/ESRC APPLE-Tree programme investigating how lifestyle and behavioural change can prevent dementia in older people. Co-leads an NIHR Dementia and Neurodegenerative diseases Policy Research Unit (Queen Mary) and the new Alzheimer’s Society Integrated Care Doctoral Training programme. Further details in link.
Professor of Ageing, Applied Health and Care Research, and Co-Lead Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health
Prof Davies’ research focuses on dementia, ageing, and end-of-life care, using qualitative methods and implementation science to develop, evaluate and embed complex interventions. He leads major programmes addressing health inequalities and real-world impact.
Clinical Reader and Consultant Psychiatrist in Perinatal Psychiatry
Improving perinatal mental health care, developing and implementing effective interventions, promoting service user involvement, and improving the design of healthcare environments.
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Global Mental Health, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Prevention of Borderline Personality Disorder; effective interventions for self-harm in young people.
Professor of Liaison Psychiatry
My research and clinical work focuses on the interface between physical and mental health, particularly around cognitive disorders such as delirium and dementia and the interface between acute hospital, emergency and community care.
Senior Clinical Lecturer
Psychosis and serious mental illness, and in reducing health inequalities for people affected by these conditions.
Research Fellow
Mental health, child and adolescent mental health, HIV and mental health
Within the university’s School of Health Sciences, the Trust collaborates primarily with academics from the below projects.
Professor of Clinical Communication
Understanding patient experience; professional-patient communication; the therapeutic relationship and developing interventions to improve communication, therapeutic relationships and outcomes of mental healthcare. Involving people with lived experience in designing and evaluating new approaches to care.
Reader in Mental Health
Helping inform others about the mental health needs of under-served populations (e.g., LGBTQ+ young people), and to contribute towards enhancing the mental wellbeing of young people. Prior work also includes mental health workforce development and digital forms of psychotherapy.
Senior Lecturer of Community Nursing
Embedding evidence-based practice in community nursing, focusing on long term conditions and parity of esteem. Promoting community career pathways in pre-registration nursing.
Director of Violence and Society Centre
Quantitative survey methods and the measurement of mental health and wellbeing. Population trends in health and health behaviours and the social context of mental health, including the role played by violence, abuse and socioeconomic adversity.
Professor of Behavioural Medicine/Health Psychology.
His Research concentrates on the Management and Self Management of Chronic Disease including the use of technology, decision making by health professionals, the impact of surgery and treatments on the brain, recovery from surgery. The health conditions he examines include diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Arthritis, Renal disease, Cancer, COPD, Ocular Disease, UTI and dementia.
Senior Lecturer
Sarah’s research interests lie in exploring ways to support the emotional and social wellbeing of people living with stroke and aphasia, on projects involving collaborations between speech and language therapists, mental health professionals and people living with aphasia and their families.
Professor of Mental Health Nursing
Using multi-methods and participatory research to co-design, evaluate and implement innovative psychosocial interventions for and with people affected by mental distress and complex trauma experience, and their family carers.
Within the university, we collaborate primarily with academics from the the Public Health and Primary Care Department.
Assistant Professor of Primary & Community Care
Her research focuses on implementation science and the use of theory in the design, implementation and evaluation of complex interventions (including digital health). Locally, Shobi leads the ELFT-UCAM Implementation Research Hub, to improve healthcare delivery for under-represented populations across Luton & Bedfordshire, working closely with the local Integrated Care Board and Health Innovation East. She uses global health thinking to address local health challenges and involves communities in research that impacts their lives.
Individual academics at UCL are also ELFT clinicians and very research-active as local study leads and holders of grants.
NIHR and UCL Professor of Global Child Health and Honorary Consultant Paediatrican
Research focuses on improving child health through applied health systems research, digital innovation, equity, and implementation science. Key areas include newborn care, neurodisability, autism, and structural determinants in the UK and LMICs.
