Research
How to get involved in research – and enjoy it.
Research can be challenging, stimulating and fun. Your involvement will range from providing data to studies, to supporting multisite studies through to leading research yourself.
Like most things, when you start out you need support. The best way to get a taste of research is to link with an established academic team and work alongside them. They will welcome serious offers of help and should be able to support you with your own work in due course. Be patient. You rarely get awarded Michelin stars for the your first few efforts at cooking. Research is likewise a complex process that takes planning, knowledge, expertise and resources.
Guide to research for child and adolescent psychiatry
Sustaining Culture of Care
Common assumptions to avoid and alternatives to try instead when sustaining and expanding the Culture of Care Quality Improvement programme
Child and adolescent research resources
Sustaining Culture of Care
Common assumptions to avoid and alternatives to try instead when sustaining and expanding the Culture of Care Quality Improvement programme
Research teams
The Child Psychiatry Research Society (CPRS) was founded in 1972 and exists to foster research in child and adolescent psychiatry, facilitate links between child and adolescent psychiatry researchers, and foster new research and researchers by organising scientific meetings.
Members can be full members, associate members, honorary members or corresponding members depending on their level of research activity and location. New members are nominated by full members to the secretary, Professor Dasha Nicholls (Imperial College London) d.nicholls@imperial.ac.uk. The current CPRS chair is Professor Alan Stein (University of Oxford).
| University | Team lead | Department or Group | Specialism | Happy to be approached to support CPRS nomination? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Bristol | Dr Helen Bould | Centre for Academic Mental Health | My work concerns the epidemiology, prevention and treatment of eating disorders. I am also involved in work on how young people use the online world | Yes |
| Cambridge University | Professor Tamsin Ford, Emeritus Professor Ian Goodyear | Department of Psychiatry | The effectiveness of services and interventions for children’s mental health, particularly at the interface with schools. | Yes |
| Cambridge University | Professor Paul Ramchandani | Faculty of Education | Early prevention of mental health problems, play, child development and education | Yes |
| Cardiff University School of Medicine | Professor Anita Thapar | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section and Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health | ADHD, adolescent depression: genetics, longitudinal research/development | Yes |
| University College Dublin | Prof Fiona McNicholas | Academic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Burnout; Eating Disorders; Transition; 22Q11DS; Liaison; Pharma o-epidemiology; ADHD | Yes |
| University College London | Professor David Skuse | Population, Policy and Practice Dept, UCL GOS Insitute of Child Health | Our primary interest is in rare Mendelian genetic disorders that are associated with cognitive and behavioural phenotypes. Our longitudinal MRC-funded prigram (IMAGINE-ID) is following a national cohort of affected children into early childhood. We also collaborate internationally on Duchenne Muscular Dystrphy studies, including gene therapy, and are developing novel online assessment procedures for detecting ASD in BAME populations. | Yes |
| University College London | Dr Priya Rajyaguru | Institute of cognitive neuroscience and division of psychiatry | Early prevention of mental health problems, social influences, executive functioning, rumination, repetitive negative thinking, depression, anxiety, adhd, asd, emotion regulation | Yes |
| University of Edinburgh | Professor Ian Kelleher | Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Division of Psychiatry | We apply data science approaches to understanding trajectories of mental health and illness from childhood to adulthood. We also carry out pharmacoepidemiological research to understand how treatments in childhood and adolescence might affect mental health outcomes in adulthood. We're especially interested in new approaches to the prediciton and prevention of psychosis. We also look at the health economics associated with mental ill health in childhood and adolescence. | Yes |
| University of Glasgow | Professor Helen Minnis | Centre for Developmental Adversity and Resilience (CeDAR) | CeDAR scientifically and holistically explores the interplay of childhood abuse and neglect and neurodevelopmental factors, so we can best understand how their interaction shapes our mental health and wellbeing as we grow. | Yes |
| Imperial College London | Professor Dasha Nicholls, Emeritus Profesor Elena Garralda, Dr Matthew Hodes, Dr Cornelius Ani | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research Group | Prevention and early intervention in young people's mental health, especially emotional and behavioural dysregulation and the interface between physical and psychological health. | Yes |
| Kings College London | Professor Stephen Scott | Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IOPPN) | Interventions work to improve child functioning, including reduction of antisocial behaviour and promotion of secure attachment. | Yes |
| Kings College London | Professor Andrea Danese | Stress and Development Lab at IOPPN | Our work aims to understand how stressful experiences in childhood affect development and later health, and how to best support children who had such traumatic experiences. | Yes |
| Kings College London | Professor Emily Simonoff | Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Autism; ADHD; ID; Antisocial behaviour; Genetics; Epidemiology | Yes |
| Kings College London | Dr Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo | IOPPN | Prevention and Early Intervention of psychotic disorders and bipolar disorder/ affective disorders | Yes |
| University of Leeds | Professor David Cottrell | Division of Psychological and Social Medicine | Understandings of and interventions for self-harm | Yes |
| Newcastle University | Dr Aditya Sharma | Translational and Clinical Research Instuitute, Faculty of Medical Sciences | Mood disorders in children, adolescents and young adults. Digital interventions, Global mental health, Paediatric psychopharmacology trials, links with autism and neurodevelopmental disorders | Yes |
| University of Nottingham | Professor Kapil Sayal, Prof Chris Hollis (Full Members); Dr Josephine Holland, Dr Puja Kochhar, Dr Pallab Majumber (Associate Members) | Institute of Mental health | Our main research themes and expertise span intervention research (RCTs), Health Services Research, Perinatal and developmental epidemiology; Digital technology; Biological mechanisms undepinning psychiatric disorders; Translational neuroscience; Psychopharmacology; Systematic reviews | Yes |
| University of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Dr Pallab Majumder | Institute of Mental health | Mental health, illness, intervention and service provision for Looked After Children. Mental health and treatment for refugee children. Transition of care between different parts of the mental health and care system. | Yes |
| University of Nottingham and Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust | Dr Anupam Bhardwaj | Institute of Mental health | Clinical trials for Mood Disorders in children and adolescents; Evidence based service developments | Yes |
| University of Oxford | Professor Alan Stein | Department of Psychiatry | The development of very young children and adolescents in the face of adversity including parental physical illness, psychological disorders, poverty and malnutrition. | Yes |
| University of Oxford | Professor Mina Fazel | Department of Psychiatry | School-based mental health interventions; | Yes |
| University of Oxford | Dr Tony James and Professor Francis Szele | Department of Psychiatry | Stem cell research in early-onset schizophrenia and healthy adolescents. | Yes |
| Queen Mary University of London | Professor Dennis Ougrin | Wolfson Institute of Population Health | Therapeutic interventions for adolescents with self-harm and understanding early predictors of self-harm | Yes |
| University of Reading | Dr Leticia Gutierrez-Galve | Therapeutic interventions for adolescents with self-harm | Yes | |
| University of Southampton | Professor Samuele Cortese | Centre for Innovation in Mental Health | Advanced evidence synthesis methods (network meta-analyses, individual participant data meta-anlyses, dose-response meta analyses, umbrella reviews etc) and prediction science in neurodevelopmental disorders | Yes |
| Tavistock Research Unit | Dr Eilis Kennedy | Tavistock Research Unit | Clinical trials; Early intervention and prevention; Longitudinal research; Gender identity; Personalised intervenions | Yes |
| University of York (Hull and York Medical School) | Professor Bernadka Dubicka (also Honorary MAHSC Chiar Univeristy of Manchester) | Department of Health Sciences | Clinical trials for adolescent depression; brief interventions for depression; online harms; environment and mental health | Yes |
| University of York (Hull and York Medical School) | Professor Paul Tiffin | Mental Health and Addictions Research Group | Mental health services, the health workforce, machine learning and predictive modelling in youth mental health | Yes |