Why Mental Health Research Matters: Co-ordinating an Impact and Engagement Programme for UKRI funded Mental Health Networks

这项由UKRI资助的八个心理健康网络的心理健康网络协调员的应用程序由Elaine Fox教授领导，直到2022年1月，工作的最后阶段由Cathy Creswell教授领导。Cathy正在领导一个促进小组开展一项名为“为什么精神卫生研究很重要”的全国精神卫生研究运动。这项建议的目的是最大限度地发挥现有精神卫生网络的潜力，并通过40个月的协调和促进活动，通过整理网络产生的产出，帮助它们共同努力，围绕所选择的主题制作新的内容，以最大限度地传达关于精神卫生研究重要性的信息，并突出其最新的研究成果，从而增加它们的价值。我们的无障碍网站有助于增加网络的影响。该提案有六个核心目标。了解在现有网络中实现跨学科心理健康研究的阶段性变化的潜力，并确定潜在的差距，制定计划，通过进一步扩大成员和兴趣来解决这些问题。2 .与UKRI密切合作，最大限度地发挥其投资组合中所有心理健康研究资助者的潜力，向其政策团队学习如何影响政府并作为联络点，以最大限度地发挥当前资金的影响。促进网络之间的思想交流，制定联合活动和产出计划。鼓励网络内的合作生产，并在成员之间建立联系，特别强调生活经验的专业知识，以创造新的研究建议，并记录这一过程，作为影响故事的一部分。与早期职业研究人员合作，发展一个充满活力的心理健康研究人员社区，并发展对这一群体特别重要的科学领域，包括开放科学。利用社交媒体、播客、网络研讨会、短片和信息图表，建立并开展一项名为“为什么心理健康研究很重要”的全国性活动。这是一个覆盖全英国的雄心勃勃的计划。我们希望确保英国的所有部分都能做出贡献，并且许多领域：生物技术、社会科学、艺术、人文、工程、文化研究、医学和健康科学以及环境科学都能参与其中。一位有心理健康问题经验的沟通协调员将与项目负责人一起每周工作四天。这个数字通信协调员的一个重要作用将是优先在所有网络中创建广泛的跨学科对话。这两个职位项目领导和沟通协调员将把专业经验与生活经验结合起来。他们得到了一个优秀团队的支持，其中包括Sam Parsons博士（他的角色于2021年10月结束），他是牛津大学早期职业心理学研究员，是改进研究和科学实践（例如开放科学方法）方面的专家。此外，我们还有一个沟通和心理健康专家团队，其中包括Vanessa Pinfold博士，她是McPin基金会的联合创始人，也是确保患者参与心理健康研究的领导者；Andre Tomlin是The Mental Elf的创始人，这是一个领先的心理健康社交媒体平台。重点将完全放在影响力和公众参与上，寻求增加和提高2018年建立的网络的价值。

This application to carry out the role of Mental Health Networks Coordinator for eight mental health networks funded by UKRI was led by Professor Elaine Fox until January 2022, and the final phase of work is being led by Professor Cathy Creswell. Cathy is leading a facilitation team to deliver a national mental health research campaign called "Why Mental Health Research Matters". This proposal was designed to maximise the potential within the existing mental health networks and add value to them through 40 months of coordination and facilitation activities, by collating outputs produced by the networks, helping them to work together to produce new content around themes chosen to maximise messages about the importance of mental health research, and highlighting their latest research findings. Our accessible website helps increase the impact of the networks.The proposal had six core objectives.1. To understand the potential within the existing networks to achieve a step-change in cross-disciplinary mental health research and identify potential gaps, making plans to address these by widening membership and interest further.2. To work closely with UKRI to maximise the potential from all mental health research funders within their portfolios, learning from their policy teams on how to influence government and act as a point of contact to maximise the impact of the current funding.3. To facilitate the cross-pollination of ideas between networks and make plans for joint activities and outputs.4. To encourage co-production within the networks and create linkages between members, particularly emphasising lived experience expertise to create new research proposals, and document this journey as part of the impact story.5. To work with early career researchers to develop a vibrant community of researchers working in mental health research, and develop areas of science that particularly matter to this group including open science.6. To build and deliver a national campaign called "Why Mental Health Research Matters" using social media as well as podcasts, webinars, short films and infographics.This is an ambitious programme with UK-wide coverage. We want to ensure that all parts of the UK can contribute and that many areas: biotechnology, social science, arts, humanities, engineering, cultural studies, medical and health sciences, & environmental science can become involved. communications co-oordinator who has lived experience of mental health issues - will work four days a week alongside the project lead. An important role of this digital communications coordinator will be to prioritise the creation of broad cross-disciplinary conversations across all of the networks. These two posts Project lead and a communications co-ordinator will bring professorial experience together with lived experience expertise. They have been supported by an excellent team including Dr Sam Parsons (whose role finished in October 2021), an early-career psychology researcher at Oxford who is an expert in improving research and science practice (e.g., Open Science approaches). In addition, we have a team of communications and mental health experts including Dr Vanessa Pinfold who is a co-founder of The McPin Foundation and a leader in ensuring patient involvement in mental health research; Andre Tomlin founder of The Mental Elf, which is a leading social media platform on mental health. The focus will be entirely on impact and public engagement, seeking to add value and enhance the value of the networks that were established in 2018.