Researching social & creative ways to reduce mental distress. Unit for Social & Community Psychiatry @NHS_ELFT @QMUL

Newham, London
Joined November 2014
The Unit for Social & Community Psychiatry is a WHO Collaborating Centre - the only one for Mental Health Services Development. We are a joint venture between @NHS_ELFT and @QMUL and tweet about...
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Fantastic day yesterday with even more bridges and connections made today. #Emtc2025
Our very own Dr Catherine Carr (@CatherineCarrMT) was invited to give a keynote about the role of music and common factors in group music therapy at the European Music Therapy Congress in Hamburg #EMTC2025
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Social Psychiatry retweeted
Looking forward to presenting @TheNCCH with @LouiseYounie GP & Professor of Medical Education & @ElleTallgren med student @QMUL @Barts_Charity @QMULSocialPsych
Join our GP SIG for a lunchtime webinar on Flourishing in Healthcare, Tues 17th Dec Exploring from three different perspectives (medical education, clinical wellbeing, student experience) how creativity can support clinical growth & connection Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/e…
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Today was the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health’s annual @QMULPsychiatry festive bake-off/Christmas jumper day. A huge THANK YOU to all those that took part
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The best savoury bake went to Abby Oroyinyin for not one but two flavours of snow-flakey pastry bites
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The best taste title goes to our back-to-back champion Lauren Hounsell for her cinnamon and ginger banana bread tree
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Office clear-out day! Next year, we will be moving from our Newham site, where we've been for over 20 years! Yesterday, we made a start on the huge task of packing fueled by pizza 😋
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Social Psychiatry retweeted
It was great to present the SCENE findings at the Research in ELFT conference last week @AgnesJChevalier @QMULSocialPsych @QMULPsychiatry @NHS_ELFT_RI #ELFTResearch
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Join us on 6th November for the Research & Innovation @ ELFT Conference 2024! There are planned tube strikes on the day so please plan extra travel time as the conference will go ahead in person! elft.nhs.uk/research #ELFTResearch
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During the last week of July, our leadership teams from Guatemala 🇬🇹, Bolivia 🇧🇴, and Colombia 🇨🇴 met in the UK 🇬🇧 at @QMUL for a strategic and governance meeting. Lots of productive conversations! Read more on our blog. @NIHRglobal @QMULSocialPsych shorturl.at/1AK2l
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Wish I could join this event to- lots of learning from @study_era and continuing to do so every day from @QMULSocialPsych @nicki_power @MeganTjasink @EllieKeiller @cimtr_aru #KindnessIsPowerful
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Social Psychiatry retweeted
Congratulations to Dr. @PadmaSCARF on being awarded an honorary doctorate by @QMUL today.A well-deserved recognition to her contributions to improving the quality of life for people living with severe mental illnesses.@SRFmentalhealth @PeoplesPalaceUK @QMULSocialPsych @NIHRglobal
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This afternoon we were treated to a screening of ‘TILKA’ a wonderful documentary about the work of Seenaryo followed by a panel discussion with the producers of the film, theatre makers and arts organisations including @seenary0 @CleanBrk @TheatreTroupeUK
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Thanks to all who helped make this happen! Especially our panelists - Naqiya and Eleanor from Seenaryo, Emily from Theatre Troupe UK and Rachel from Clean Break - as well as Paul Heritage @PeoplesPalaceUK who chaired the session. Lots of overlap in our diverse areas of work.
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Social Psychiatry retweeted
Today at @QMUL: Dr Padmavati R, director of @SRFmentalhealth and PI for PIECEs in India, just delivered a wonderful lecture covering over 40 years of her work building community mental health strategies in Chennai. @QMULSocialPsych @PeoplsPalaceUK @NIHRglobal
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It was great that researchers from various studies including @DialogRemote, @study_era, @StudyOla were able to contribute to this learning event & network with researchers from Colombia, Bolivia & Guatemala to see how study designs, methods & interventions could be used
(ENG) Having a fantastic afternoon with @QMULSocialPsych and @QMULResilience teams. We explored and heard from insightful projects that could inspire the growth and internationalisation of our LatAm centre. @U_Landivar @UniJaveriana @UnifranzBolivia @NIHRglobal
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Join us next week for a screening of 'TILKA' an intimate portrait of five women who meet to create a piece of theatre amid Lebanon's collapse. This is followed by a panel discussion with members of Seenaryo @seenary0, Clean Break @CleanBrk and Theatre Troupe UK @TheatreTroupeUK
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Social Psychiatry retweeted
Today we were at @warwickmed for the inaugural lecture of our Chief Investigator - Professor Domenico Giacco. It was great to hear about how SCENE fits into his career so far as well as how his research has been shaped by both @QMULSocialPsych and @warwickMHWB
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Social Psychiatry retweeted
Productive day coding CHArt art therapy study participant feedback with fellow ⁦@QMUL_WIPH⁩ #phd’s ⁦@Madi__Stephens⁩ & ⁦@EllieKeiller⁩ New insight into active ingredients of #arttherapy to treat burnout gained! @QMULSocialPsych⁩ ⁦@QMULResilience⁩ 🧐🩺🎨
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Today @ENMESHmental Conference Phil & Agnes from the @TACK_Study & @study_scene, respectively, were joined by colleagues from City University to host a symposium discussing resource orientation in mental health care. Great session with some great questions from the audience
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