TRIUMPH Network Newsletter
March 2020Over the past three months the TRIUMPH team have been working with young people, policymakers, practitioners and researchers across the UK to find out their priorities for future research into young people’s mental health. We have been inspired by the diverse projects that are already ongoing to support young people’s mental health and wellbeing and the drive across sectors to work together to continue to develop research and practice that makes a difference to young people’s mental health. We are now collating these priorities from different stakeholders in youth mental health and will soon be publishing a TRIUMPH Network research agenda. This agenda will guide the direction of future Network activities, including our funding call. We will be
launching a funding call at the end of March to support transdisciplinary teams to conduct research to improve youth mental health, through a public health approach. Our focus on public mental health will support research aiming to promote good mental health and wellbeing and prevent mental illness through influences on society, organisations, communities and individuals, and will be guided by our research agenda. Up to £30,000 per project alongside support from a research assistant will be awarded to small research projects or scoping work that has the potential to demonstrate a pathway to impact for larger-scale intervention development and/or evaluation in the future. Keep an eye out for our research agenda and further information about the funding call at the end of March!
Early-Career Researcher Forum: postponed until the AutumnUnfortunately, due to the current uncertainty with the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK we have taken the decision to postpone the TRIUMPH Early-Career Research Forum until the Autumn. We will announce the revised date for this event through our website, newsletter and twitter and hope that many of you will still be able to attend. All attendees who have paid registration fees will receive a full refund.
New research into young people's mental health in WalesOur Youth Advisory Group member Elina Thomas-Jones had the opportunity to interview Prof. Simon Murphy, Co-Director of the National Centre for Population Health and Well Being Research and the Schools Health Research Network in Wales, and Prof Steve Collinshaw, Co-Director of the Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health at Cardiff University. In this podcast you can hear their views on youth mental health, their role in TRIUMPH and how the Centre for Young People’s Mental Health in Cardiff will lead
new research in this field.
National Adolescent Study reveals insights into child mental health in ScotlandThe 2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study in Scotland, led by TRIUMPH Director, Dr Jo Inchley, provides new data and insights about the health and wellbeing of the nation’s young people. This blog highlights some of the key findings around young people’s mental health and wellbeing from the recently published report. We’re now looking forward to the publication of the International HBSC report in April 2020, to see how the UK compares with other European countries when it comes to our young people’s health and wellbeing.
#YoungMindsMatter Evidently Cochrane launched new blog series on young people’s mental health, #YoungMindsMatter. Throughout February they published series of blogs exploring ideas, initiatives and approaches to supporting children and young people’s mental health including topics such as suicide and self-harm prevention, talking therapies for anxiety and depression
in children with long-term physical conditions, illustrating mental health topics and using images to communicate research and sharing mental health evidence.
Celebrating 25 years of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health JournalTo celebrate the Child and Adolescent Mental Health journal’s 25th anniversary, they have released the 25 top-cited articles of all time! All papers are freely available online for you to read until 31 December 2020. See who made the list.
Prioritising determinants of public mental healthThe NIHR Public Mental Health Programme is running and online survey to rank public mental health determinants based on their importance to improving mental health and promoting well-being. The PMH programme is a NIHR-funded School of Public Health Research programme on better understanding the factors that influence mental health across the life course and how they can be addressed. For further information about the programme, please visit the SPHR website. The survey takes 5-10 minutes:
Upcoming eventsPlease check event websites for any updates due to the COVID-19 outbreak Scotland’s Student Mental Health Conference,
11 May 2020, Stirling Benefits and harms of the internet for children and young people’s mental health, conference,
19 June 2020, London 2nd Annual Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provisions Conference,
8 July 2020, London NIHR Implementing Patient & Public Involvement, training for researchers, various dates, London from the NIHR. International Resilience Revolution
Conference, 9-10 September 2020, Brighton. EPA Section of Epidemiology & Social Psychiatry Conference, Towards a perfect vision for public mental health, 10-12 September, Cambridge 2020
UKRI Mental Health network funding calls - VAMHN: Early Career Research Training Bursary Awards of up to £250 are available to support junior researchers to attend training courses, research placements at institutions
other than their own, and conferences. Deadline: 03 April 2020
- MARCH: Grants of up to £50,000 addressing one of two specific priority research questions, or up to £20,000 for innovative research on two further broad questions in relation to community assets and mental health. Deadline: 24th May 2020.
- E-Nurture: Grants of up to £56,250 addressing identified thematic areas related to the digital world, families, and schools / peers. Deadline: 31 May 2020.
Pre-call announcement The MRC/AHRC/ESRC Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind initiative will shortly be launching a £24M call for ambitious multi and inter-disciplinary Research Programmes. The initiative will provide funding for multi- and inter-disciplinary teams with the aim to: - Address important and novel research questions under the broad scope of Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind.
- Actively strengthen intersections between disciplines that do not routinely engage with each other, build capacity in the field and develop skills.
- Embed knowledge mobilisation and strengthen patient and public involvement.
Call opens, 20 March 2020. Outline application deadline: 30 June 2020
Get involved Is there anything you’d like us to highlight for your organisation? Send your latest news, events and blog ideas to sphsu-triumph@glasgow.ac.uk before Friday 29 May 2020 to make sure you’re included in the next edition. Remember to follow us on Twitter (@TRIUMPHnetwork), and Instagram (@triumphnetwork) to keep up with the latest news and feel free to forward this e-newsletter on to interested colleagues and networks.
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