Research

Enhancing wellbeing in cancer care: Engagement in smart-messaging programmes for symptom management

Nima has published a new practice-based evidence paper with colleagues from the East Midlands Cancer Alliance Centre for Psychosocial Health: Boutry, C., Mays, C., Kochar, A., Moghaddam, N., Patel, P., Watson, E., Dicks, M., Gibbons, F., Malins, S., & Rathbone, J. (2025). Enhancing wellbeing in cancer care: Engagement in smart-messaging programmes for symptom management. Digital…Continue Reading Enhancing wellbeing in cancer care: Engagement in smart-messaging programmes for symptom management

Access to Career Development Activities by Disabled Undergraduate Students Across UK Universities

Sophie Thomas’ work from a UROS funded project on access to career development activities by disabled undergraduate students across UK universities has this week been belatedly published in the 2024 7(3) e-journal of Impact: the university’s journal of Higher Education Research. This project was supervised by Susan Chipchase and was a collaboration with Becki Commins…Continue Reading Access to Career Development Activities by Disabled Undergraduate Students Across UK Universities

Embedding Co-Production in Mental Health Research

On 18th March, Nima Moghaddam and Dave Dawson delivered an invited talk on “Embedding Co-Production in Mental Health Research” at the Psychological Professions Celebration Event hosted by Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust. Their presentation highlighted the integration of co-production within their recent GLiMHR (Guiding Lincolnshire’s Mental Health Research) project – an initiative that has aided identification…Continue Reading Embedding Co-Production in Mental Health Research

New National Gambling Harm Prevention Hub

Amanda Roberts was an invited guest at the Houses of Parliament for the official launch of Chapter One– a new a national gambling harm prevention hub spearheaded by the Charity Gambling with Lives.   Amanda is partnering with Gambling with Lives and her work investigating gambling related suicide will directly feed into Chapter One.  Further details…Continue Reading New National Gambling Harm Prevention Hub

Tackling gambling harm requires a public health approach

Amanda Roberts has had the following commissioned British Medical Journal editorial published reflecting on the new NICE guidelines for gambling harms. The guidelines focus on the individual, while the industry escapes scrutiny. Cowlishaw, S., Roberts, A., George, S., & Kessler, D. (2025) Tackling gambling harm requires a public health approach. BMJ 2025; 388:r447 doi:10.1136/bmj.r447 Tackling…Continue Reading Tackling gambling harm requires a public health approach

Former MSc Counselling Student Selected as Winner of the BACP New Researcher Award 2025

Former MSc Counselling student Liv Jones (supervised by Teresa Garrod) has been selected as the winner of the BACP New Researcher Award 2025 for her thesis entitled ‘Investigating how trainee and qualified counsellors navigate the mental toll of working in a hospice setting’.  Liv will receive her award at the BACP International Research Conference in…Continue Reading Former MSc Counselling Student Selected as Winner of the BACP New Researcher Award 2025

Kamila Irvine was invited to appear on the “Can I have another snack?” podcast

Kamila Irvine was invited to appear on the “Can I have another snack?” podcast hosted by Dr Laura Thomas. They talked about the research investigating the impact of childhood weight management completed with undergraduate student Josie Binder. The episode is available here….Continue Reading Kamila Irvine was invited to appear on the “Can I have another snack?” podcast

Lunchtime Mindfulness

Jenny Hamilton will be running a mindfulness group for staff live online via Teams on Fridays 12 noon –1pm starting on Friday 14/02/25.   The sessions will integrate practices from self-compassion and stress reduction approaches. If you would like to join, please email Jenny….Continue Reading Lunchtime Mindfulness

Priority Setting in Partnership

The GLiMHR team hosted their final “Priority Setting in Partnership” workshop on Thursday, 30 January, bringing together 30 participants with lived and/or professional experience of mental health. The goal was to reach a consensus on the Top 10 research priorities for mental health in Lincolnshire. This event marked the culmination of 10 months of extensive…Continue Reading Priority Setting in Partnership