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TRIUMPH Network Newsletter
December 2019
The TRIUMPH network has reached its first birthday, and what a fantastic first year it’s been! Since launching the network, we’ve connected with over 400 members across the UK, and have loved hearing about your work and passion for improving young people’s mental health.
Since our last newsletter we’ve started our research priority setting process - listening to the views of young people, policy-makers, practitioners and researchers across the UK about what they think are the most important topics for future research to improve young people’s mental health. You can read more about our priority setting workshops and online survey below.
Looking ahead to the next year, we’ve got lots of exciting TRIUMPH activities coming up. We will be pulling together our workshop discussions and survey responses to develop and launch the TRIUMPH research agenda, and will be opening our funding call in Spring 2020. We will also be running a number of events, including an early-career researcher forum and sand-pit events to support funding application development.
Keep an eye out for more details about all of these activities coming soon!
Research agenda setting
As part of our research agenda setting we have hosted workshops in Cardiff and Glasgow, which both saw around 60 attendees including policy-makers, practitioners, researchers and young people come together to discuss current priorities for adolescent mental health. You can find out more about these workshops by reading our blog about the agenda-setting day in Cardiff on 12 November.
You can also have your say in our research priorities for youth public mental health by taking part in our short online survey .
TRIUMPH early-career forum: 27-28 April 2020
Calling all early-career researchers! TRIUMPH will be hosting an early-career forum focusing on "Youth mental health: Putting evidence into action"
Further information including registration details will be announced in January 2020.
How can we work together to prevent suicide?
Congratulations to our Co-Investigator, Professor Rory O'Connor, and team on winning a Mind Media Award 2019 for Best Podcast. The episode explores how we can all play a role in preventing suicide.
Follow Rory’s work on Twitter - @suicideresearch.
Find out more about the Mind Media Awards 2019: mind.org.uk
Exploring Mental Health Through Art
Discover how students at Braidhurst High School have been using art as a means to explore mental health.
Mental Health Messages
Our youth advisers have been busy engaging with the public to collect #MentalHealthMessages.
You can check some of them out in our video or share your own message @TRIUMPHnetwork.
Barnardo's Care in Mind series
Barnardo’s have recently released their first report from the Care in Mind series, which focuses on looked after children and care leavers’ access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. The Care in Mind series takes a holistic approach to the mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced young people by identifying what roles different people and organisations can play to achieve positive change.
Your opinions are needed!
Are you concerned about how young people spend their time? Or how what adolescents choose to do impacts their wellbeing? If so please consider taking part in the following study.
This study, led by Jackie Parsonage at Oxford Brookes University is looking for clinical professionals, teachers and researchers working with adolescent populations who would be willing to provide their opinion via an online Delphi questionnaire on things that affect what adolescents do in their daily lives, and how this impacts mental wellbeing.
The results of this study will be used to inform an occupational therapy intervention for adolescents.
Email Jackie for more information about getting involved.
UKRI mental health network funding calls
Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health: grants of up to £30,000 are available to support research that looks at understanding what the experience of loneliness and social isolation is like for individuals with mental health problems, and what the nature of the relationship is between loneliness/isolation and mental health problems. Deadline: 31 January 2020.
Emerging Minds: grants of up to £40,000 are available to support research addressing the Emerging Minds key challenges for young people’s mental health: embracing complexity; voices power and attitudes; and supporting the supporters. Deadline: 21 February 2020.
SMaRteN: grants of up to £10,000 are available to support research addressing the question “What can non-clinical universal approaches to student mental health achieve?” Deadline: March 2020.
Events calendar
8 January 2020: Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health Research Network Symposium, London
11 February 2020: Closing the Gap Roadshow, Stafford
12 February 2020: Youth in Mind 2020 , Oxford
22 February 2020: The Centre for Child Mental Health: How to have a mentally health school, community or organisation, London
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 28 February 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.
Phone: (+44) 0141 353 7500
Address: TRIUMPH Network,
MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit,
University of Glasgow,
Top floor, 200 Renfield Street,
Glasgow G2 3AX
TRIUMPH is part of Cross-Disciplinary Mental Health Network Plus initiative supported by UK Research and Innovation.
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Phone: (+44) 0141 353 7500
Address: MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit,
University of Glasgow,
Top floor, 200 Renfield Street,
Glasgow G2 3AX