C19 Heroes

Study in the news: "NHS pay rise: Health workers back unions' call for inflation-proof deal and warn they are at 'breaking point'"

Covid-19 Social Study

Study in the news: "Booster campaign stalls as 'partygate' undermines trust in official advice"

Arts and culture report

Individuals and families relied on home-based arts activities and digital arts and cultural resources to help them manage the pandemic and to cope emotionally.

Anxiety - Word of the Year

"Anxiety" was named as the children's word of the year for 2021. This is ‘not surprising,’ say experts.

New study: Copwell

COVID-MINDS member, Dr Keri Wong, has launched a new study with the Jamal Edwards Delve charity to work with BAME young people to document and co-create effective coping resources as the pandemic unfolds.

Future Minds

The Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London has released its first Zine, a virtual series showcasing research about young people and their wellbeing and mental health.

Job vacancy

A Senior Research Associate position focusing on mental health is open to applications.

Job vacancy

The COSI Research Team at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families in the UK is looking to hire a research assistant to contribute to a range of activities across nine perinatal mental health sites.

Job vacancies

The University of Bristol is hiring two lecturers in psychology within the School of Psychological Science.

The Economist

Covid-19 has led to a sharp increase in depression and anxiety Featuring the recent global systematic review in the Lancet.

Think Global Health

COVID-19 has deepened the global mental health crisis, say researchers at the University of Washington and the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research.

Tenure track position

UC San Diego is offering a tenure track Assistant Teaching Professor position in the Department of Cognitive Science.

BSPHN

Virtual Conference 2022: Behavioural Science and Public Health Network 8-10 February 2022 Abstract deadline: 17 December 2021

Wellcome Global Monitor 2020: Mental health

Wellcome has released the largest survey examining how people cope with anxiety and depression and how they view science and its role in adressing mental health problems.

Job vacancy

The Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences is hiring a Research Assistant who will be responsible for recruiting study participants, data collection and management, and research dissemination.

Job vacancy

The Social Cognition and Interaction in Autism Lab in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow.

Job Vacancy

Role: Assistant Psychologist Lewisham Young People's Service. The team offers intensive psychiatric and psychological support in an assertive model to young people in the community, often to avoid or step down from hospital admission.

Mental Health Research Incubator

A community of researchers, professionals, lived experience experts and public contributors to mental health research

UCL Wellcome 4-year PhD in Mental Health Science

This programme, funded in 2019, is the first of its kind in the UK, representing an investment of over £5 million by the Wellcome Trust. It is based in the UCL Institute of Mental Health and will recruit six students per year from 2020-2024.

Job vacancy

The Nature Reviews journals are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Associate or Senior Editor with broad understanding of the social psychology landscape, with an interest in group processes and intergroup relations, social cognition, attitudes and perception, interpersonal relationships, personality, identity and the self, emotion, motivation and judgement and decision-making.

Job vacancy

The Department of Education at the University of York is seeking a Research Associate for 10 months to work with Dr Umar Toseeb on a project funded by the Sir Halley Stewart Trust called “Genetic and Environmental Influences on Mental Illness in Young People with Developmental Language Disorder”.

Job vacancy

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with experience of applied health research to join an experienced interdisciplinary team working on a realist synthesis funded by the National Institute of Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research. The aim is to understand how we can limit and manage the weight gain associated with anti-psychotics in people with severe mental illness.

Job vacancy

WHO is looking for a statistician with expertise in survey methods and analysis to support the Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) with a survey of (i) healthcare worker and (ii) population mental health during COVID-19 outbreak.

Job vacancy

Research Lead, Health Systems & Environment 8 August deadline

COVGEN International Summit 2021

A hybrid (virtual and in-person meeting), taking place on-line and at the Swissôtel, Chicago, IL, USA. Held in coordination with the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (IDSP) 2021 conference

MQ Data Science Meeting

MQ Mental health data science: Inequality, diversity and representativeness 22 September 2021

WHO Europe

Recommendations from the European Technical Advisory Group on the mental health impacts of COVID-19

UK Parliament POST

Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults

The Pandemic Did Not Affect Mental Health the Way You Think

The world’s psychological immune system turned out to be more robust than expected.

COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study

A study led by Nishi Chaturvedi to address the impact of COVID-19 and of associated viral suppression measures on health and wealth.

New data hub for mental health research

DATAMIND will provide innovative, high-value data resources for mental health research and innovation.

Summer Webinar

The UCL-Penn Global COVID Study presents a free webinar series from 2-28 July 2021, sponsored by the UCL Global Engagement Fund.

COVID-19 Unmasked

COVID-19 Unmasked is an online study that was launched in Australia in May 2020 to advance urgent research into understanding the mental health impacts of the pandemic on young children (1-5 years) and their families.

MINDCOVID

MINDCOVID is led by the IMIM Health Services research group (Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques), with Dr Jordi Alonso as principal investigator.

COVID-19 Social Study

It has been a year since the launch of the COVID-19 Social Study. In that time the public's vital participation in weekly surveys has helped UCL understand how the pandemic has affected millions of people in the United Kingdom.

N3C Data Enclave

For researchers interested in US-based clinical data, the N3C Data Enclave is a vast collection of harmonised electronic health records collected for COVID-19 research. While not focused specifically on mental health, data could be relevant to behavioural health or research related to Long Covid.

BMJ webinars

On 13 May 2021, the British Medical Journal is hosting the webinar "Covid and Mental Health" as part of a series of online events related to the pandemic.

Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh

Dr Yasmin Ahmadzadeh from King’s College London urges researchers to use new tools and vocabulary for measuring and discussing race, ethnicity and ancestry. Read her article here.

International 100K+ Cohorts Consortium

The International 100K+ Cohorts Consortium is a global network of large cohorts aiming to improve population health. Dr Jordan Smoller, Dr Sarah Bauermeister, and Dr Andre Brunoni lead one of the IHCC’s pilot projects examining the global mental impact of the pandemic. Cohorts interested in participating should contact IHCC at ihccinfo@ihccglobal.org.

Technical Advisory Group

In February, the World Health Organization held its first meeting for the Technical Advisory Group on the mental health impact of COVID-19 in the WHO European Region.

Evidence-Based Resources

The AnDY Research Group (University of Reading) and the TOPIC Research Group (University of Oxford) have released evidence-based resources for parents and carers on managing child anxiety.

COVID CIRCLE

COVID CIRCLE was recently launched to bring together funders and researchers supporting COVID-19 research in low- and middle-income countries. Visit its resource hub and learn about its networks and events.

The TELL Study

The TELL Study, based at the University of Manchester, has released a short film exploring the challenges faced by teenagers during the pandemic. The project places particular emphasis on this age group's wellbeing.

2021 Emanual Miller Memorial Lecture and Conference

International researchers will share their views on how the pandemic has affected child and adolescent mental health at the two-day Emanual Miller Memorial Lecture and Conference from 18-19 March.

Mental health impacts of COVID-19 on NHS staff

The UK government has released a report on the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of NHS workers and the support needed for staff moving forward.

The British Psychological Society has put together a hub of resources for psychology researchers and students studying COVID-19.

Covid Corpus is a new interdisciplinary online database aimed at encouraging collaboration and reducing duplication among researchers.

A consortium of researchers from across the UK collaborating to understand the long-term health outcomes of patients who were hospitalised with COVID-19.

The COVID-19 Survey Research Working Group runs sessions every week on survey methodologies best suited to the pandemic and public health emergencies. Membership is open to anyone interested in this topic.

Report: Health and wellbeing during coronavirus

This is a routinely updated report about population mental health and wellbeing in England during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mental health: listening to young people and learning from Covid-19

This position paper sets out a commitment by Wellcome, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Economic Forum to embed three principles across our mental health work: lived experience, local innovation, and larger than healthcare.

Collabovid

Collabovid helps researchers to identify the most relevant information by using Natural Language Processing.

CLOSER the home of longitudinal research

Search and browse questionnaires and data from the UK’s leading longitudinal studies.

Catalogue of Mental Health Measures

An interactive catalogue of mental health and wellbeing measures in British cohort and longitudinal studies.

Living Systematic Review of Mental Health in COVID-19

Living systematic reviews are systematic reviews that are continually updated and provide ongoing access to results via online publication.

Policy Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic

In this article researchers present data and research from the Coronavirus Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), published and managed by researchers at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.

United for global mental health

In April 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry, Mental Health Innovation Network, MHPSS.net and United for Global Mental Health launched a webinar series designed to provide policy makers and the wider health community with the latest evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health and how to address it.

Stories from the field

MHIN and the World Health Organization Department of Mental Health and Substance Use are collaborating to highlight the incredible efforts of individuals and organisations providing mental health and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research priorities

Researchers explore the psychological, social, and neuroscientific effects of COVID-19 and set out the immediate priorities and longer-term strategies for mental health science research.

World Health Organisation

Ethical standards for research during public health emergencies: Distilling existing guidance to support COVID-19 R&D.

COVID-19 Resources for the Research Community

Resources for the academic community on COVID-19 research, community initiatives, and tools for sharing your research during this time.

The scope of mental health research during the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath

Researchers propose a coordinated and interdisciplinary mental health science response.

NIHR Involve

This website is dedicated to learning and development for public involvement in health and social care research.