How is our research changing the field of suicide prevention? We asked our PhD students in the Self-harm and Suicide Prevention Research group at the Institute for Mental Health "How do you want your work to change the field of suicide prevention?"
10 November 2022 CELEBRATE Success for Institute for Mental Health Professor Rachel Upthegrove, Dr Anna Lavis and Niyah Campbell, with colleagues in KCL have been awarded just under £1M from UKRI for the CELEBRATE project.
14 October 2022 Brain and mental health research gets £35.4 million funding boost The University of Birmingham is part of a significant programme to deliver innovative treatments and therapies in brain health thanks to a £35.4 million award.
08 October 2022 New UKRI-funded project on mental health encounters in young people Lisa Bortolotti (PTR) and Matthew Broome (IMH) are investigators in an exciting new collaborative project funded by UKRI.
12 April 2022 Institute for Mental Health at Schizophrenia International Research Society 2022 Annual Congress Members of the Institute for Mental Health have been recognised at the recent Schizophrenia International Research Society 2022 Annual Congress.
10 January 2022 €1.5M grant will enable research into why and when we help others A University of Birmingham psychologist has been awarded a prestigious grant from the European Research Council to investigate why and when people make decisions to help others.
30 November 2021 Rosa Ritunnano Named Winner of Wolfe Mays Essay Prize 2021 Rosa Ritunnano Named Winner of Wolfe Mays Essay Prize 2021
29 November 2021 Digital platform set to improve outcomes for patients with early psychosis A project to improve outcomes for patients with early psychosis by developing a digital register, and personal health care recommendation tool has been launched by experts at the University of Birmingham.
07 July 2021 Funding success for Institute for Mental Health The Institute for Mental Health at the University of Birmingham has been awarded £1.5M from the Wolfson Foundation to fund a research centre focused on supporting youth mental health.
20 May 2021 Harnessing the power of mental health data science to bring benefits to patients suffering from mental health problems The use of data science can help deal with ways to improve mental health services and interventions.
10 February 2021 Recognition for PhD student Joseph Houlders PhD student Joseph Houlders has received an Honourable Mention for the prestigious Jaspers Award issued by the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry.
09 February 2021 Fellowship Success for Dr Maria Michail Dr Maria Michail, lead of the suicide and self-harm research group at the Institute for Mental Health has been awarded a three-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Fellowship.
14 January 2021 Award success for Patricia Lockwood Patricia Lockwood, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Human Brain Health and Institute for Mental Health, has recently been named recipient of the Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship.