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 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.
16 November 2020 Death and the 'Spanish Lady': Suicide in Pandemic Times In 1918-19, the 'Spanish Flu', (or Spanish Lady'), is estimated to have killed over 50M people. What is less well-known is that many others succumbed to its effects on mental wellbeing and died by suicide as a result.
21 September 2020 International Research Programme to help young people at risk of psychotic illness The University of Birmingham is leading the UK site of a new International programme to develop models for predicting outcomes for young people who are at imminent and high risk of psychotic illness.
04 May 2020 Supporting Mental Health Services through COVID-19 Colleagues at the Institute for Mental Health (IMH) are supporting NHS colleagues through the COVID-19 pandemic in a number of ways.
06 April 2020 What is the impact of self-isolation and quarantining on our mental health? Dr Karen Newbigging responds to a recent paper published in the lancet addressing the psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it.