We’re starting a new project evaluating supported volunteering at the Ripon Museum Trust.
A unique collaboration between the International Centre for Mental Health Social Research (ICMHSR) at the University of York and the Ripon Museum Trust (RMT) is starting to collect data for an evaluation of supported volunteering
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Our research has identified a potential role for social workers in addressing social risk factors for cardiovascular disease in India.
Social factors such as poverty and access to community networks, combined with depression and anxiety, increase the risk for cardiovascular disease in Kerala, India. These findings have just been published in the open access journal
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The call for abstracts for the 9th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health to be held in York in July 2019 has been published today. This conference is held every three years,
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The work of the International Centre for Mental Health Social Research in India continued this week with a visit to the Rajagiri College of Social Sciences. Our focus this week has been supporting a new
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The International Centre for Mental Health Social Research (ICMHSR) hosted a visit to the University of York from its collaborators from India and Australia in April as part of a project developing social interventions for
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Jonny Lovell, PhD student in the International Centre for Mental Health Social Research at the University of York, has recently completed his thesis on sharing lived experience in mental health services. He conducted this research
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There is increasing recognition of the value of lived experience and the important contribution people with personal experience of mental health issues can make to mental health care. Peer workers already exist in a number
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This week I'm really pleased to welcome David Ansari to the University of York. David is a collaborator of the International Centre for Mental Health Social Research (ICMHSR) from the University of Chicago and he's
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