The Mental Elf

Thanos Karatzias - Complex PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Thanos Karatzias from Edinburgh Napier University, talks about"Complex PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder: the overlaps and differences" befo...

Colin King - Personality Disorder and Racial Inequality

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Speaking before his plenary talk at the 2022 BIGSPD conference, Dr Colin King from the University of Oxford Race Equality and Whiteness Network, speak...

The architecture of mental health research

13 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Andrew Thompson, Dr Sarah Maguire and Professor Mark Dadds discuss a number of national research centres in Australia. Hosted on Acast. See ...

Oliver Dale and Kirsten Barnicot preview #BIGSPD22

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oliver Dale and Kirsten Barnicot preview the 2022 Annual Conference of the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder (BIGSPD), whi...

Louise Howard - Breaking the bias to impact on mental health #IoPPNfestival

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Louise Howard, Professor in Women’s Mental Health in theDepartment of Health Service & Population Research at King's College London.Differ...

Christina Krause - Burnout

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do we support health and care staff who are burned out, exhausted and thinking of leaving their profession?Christina Krause, CEO of the BC Patient...

Roz Shafran & Adam Radomsky

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Speaking before their keynotes at the BABCP 2022 Annual Conference, Roz Shafran and Adam Radomsky talk about OCD, Control, Doubt, Perfectionism & CBT....

Why do the EPSRC want to fund more mental health research? With Philippa Hemmings

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As the mental health crisis continues, The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council are finding mental health researcher higher up their pri...

Mathematics and mental health: what's the connection? with Professor Terry Lyons

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can mathematics contribute to mental health research? Although the two seem distinct, the connection is found in data. Mathematics can help make s...

How can AI help us to manage mental health condtiions? With Amid Ayobi and Aisling Ann O'Kane

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Mental Health Research Matters team spoke to Dr Aisling Ann O'Kane and Dr Amid Ayobi from the SPHERE project to find out more about human-computer...

Tony LaMontagne - Work as a social determinant of mental health and wellbeing

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Tony LaMontagne talks to Adam Nebbs at the Society for Mental Health Research conference in Hobart in March 2022.Anthony D. LaMontagne is a Prof...

SMHR Big Ideas

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fiona Cocker facilitates a discussion with early career researchers about how SMHR can ensure a commitment to building our evidence base to enhance kn...

Gemma Sharp - KIT The Positive Body Image Chatbot

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gemma Sharp - KIT The Positive Body Image Chatbot by The Mental Elf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Miranda Van Hooff - Military and First Responders

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Miranda Van Hoof previews her talk on "Working with Military and First Responders in Research and Clinical Practice" from the Society for Mental He...

Michael Berk And Susan Rossell

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Speaking before their Mental Health Research Architecture and Policy Panel discussion at the Society for Mental Health Research conference in Hobart, ...

Eating Disorders: All Together Now Panel

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

All Together Now Panel - Eating Disorders as a specialisation or generalist responsibility.With Deborah Mitchison, Laura Hart, AJ Williams-Tchen, Trac...

Tom Freeman - Cannabis and mental health

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Tom Freeman talks to us before his plenary talk at the Society of Mental Health Research conference in Hobart on "The role of cannabinoids in the d...

Kim Felmingham - PTSD

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Kim Felmingham speaks to us before her plenary talk at the Society of Mental Health Research conference in Hobart, Australia. Professor Kim ...

Gill Smith And Elaine Mead

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gill Smith from Kaizen Kata, Northern Ireland and Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) (Ireland) and Elaine Mead from Improvement Care and Compa...

Helen Herrman - Time for united action on depression

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Helen Herrman is is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Orygen and the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, and Dire...

Amanda Neil and Fiona Cocker

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Amanda Neil and Fiona Cocker introduce the Society for Mental Health Research podcast, which will accompany the #SMHR22 conference taking place in Hob...

Announcing #BABCP2022 - Shirley Reynolds and Jo Daniels

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The 50th Annual BABCP Conference will take place in London on 20-23 July 2022: https://babcp2022.org/In this podcast, Prof Shirley Reynolds and Dr Jo ...

Sara Riggare, Patrik Blomkvist & Elin Cederbrant - Patient Representation #Quality2022

23 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do we work in partnership with patients, carers and service users?Sara Riggare, Patrik Blomkvist and Elin Cederbrant are all members of the patien...

Anette Nilsson - Integrated care: learning from the Swedish experience #Quality2022

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Anette Nilsson, Region Jönköping County, Sweden"Don't miss the party in Gothenburg, where new possibilities, inspiration and hope will be created."A...

Jesper Ekberg - Health Inequalities #Quality2022

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jesper Ekberg, SALAR and Region Jönköping County, Sweden"My heart is really beating a lot around quality improvement and how that can come closer to...

Antidepressants, autism diagnosis & self-harm. Elf Nuggets - Oct 2021

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to our first ever #ElfNuggets show!If you prefer, you can watch this Elf Nuggets episode on the Mental Elf YouTube channel: https://www.youtub...

Jon Roiser & Ron Kessler - Precision Psychiatry #IoMHconf2021

13 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ron Kessler, “Pragmatic Precision Psychiatry”Ronald C. Kessler, Ph.D. is the McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical Scho...

Merle Schlief, Jackie Hardy, Tamar Jeynes & Mary Birken - Lived Experience Research #IoMHconf2021

13 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Towards coproduction: Involvement in the Mental Health Policy Research UnitMerle Schlief, "Co-production on the PRU Covid interviews project: what we ...

Alexandra Pitman - The impact of peer suicide, suicide attempt and self-harm #IoMHconf2021

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Alexandra Pitman is an Associate Professor in Psychiatry in the UCL Division of Psychiatry and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Camden and Is...

Prof Laurence Kirmayer - Landscapes of trauma #ACOTS2021

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Laurence Kirmayer from McGill University is a psychiatrist and expert in transcultural psychiatry.He will be giving the opening keynote talk...

Dr Duleeka Knipe - Suicide in low and middle-income countries #IoMHconf2021

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Duleeka Knipe is a Vice Chancellor's Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS) at the University of Bristol. She will be giving a talk in the forthcomin...

Prof Meaghan O'Donnell #ACOTS2021

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Meaghan O'Donnell is the Head of Research at Phoenix Australia, and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne.She w...

Prof Katherine Iverson - Intimate partner violence #ACOTS2021

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Katherine Iverson from the Women’s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for PTSD at the VA Boston Healthcare System, and the Un...

Prof Tony David #IoMHconf2021 preview

06 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Tony David, Director of the UCL Institute of Mental Health, talks about the forthcoming IoMH Annual Conference, which takes place online on ...

Prof Nicholas Procter - Trauma informed approach #ACOTS2021

03 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Nicholas Procter from the University of South Australia is a mental health nurse and will speak about the use of co-design and lived experie...

Prof Tim Dalgleish - Transdiagnostic approaches... #ACOTS2021

30 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Tim Dalgleish from the University of Cambridge is a clinical psychologist who specialises in transdiagnostic interventions.He will be giving...

Zac Steel #ACOTS2021

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Zachary Steel, President of the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (https://www.astss.org.au/) helps us prepare for the 21st ...

Kindness #Quality2021

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Bob Klaber, Consultant General Paediatrician and Director of Strategy, Research and Innovation at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, speaks abo...

Equity and quality improvement #Quality2021

06 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Don Goldmann (Harvard Professor and Chief Scientific Officer, Emeritus at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement) and Amar Shah (Forensic Psychiatri...

Workforce wellbeing #Quality2021

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Cat Chatfield, Research Integrity Editor at The BMJ (https://twitter.com/drcatchatfield) and Dr. Daljit Hothi, Home HD Lead, Consultant Paediatric...

Anna Motz BIPSPD21

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Motz - Working Psychotherapeutically with Women’s Invisible Trauma. Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist working in the Offender Care ...

Peter Kinderman #BIGSPD21

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Peter Kinderman, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool will be speaking at the BIGSPD 2021 online conference, whic...

Grainne McAlonan #IoPPNfestival

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Prof Grainne McAlonan, Professor of Translational Neuroscience in the Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences at King's College London....

Terrie Moffitt #IoPPNfestival

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Terrie E. Moffitt, Professor of Social Development in the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King's College London.Synopsi...

Final reflections from #ImpactFrameworks

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

#ImpactFrameworks conference organisers Mark Taylor, Jess Romo and Shaun Leamon discuss the conference highlights over the two days and lessons learnt...

Jenny Donovan

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Jenny Donovan, CEO of the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) Presentation Title: Evidence for ChangeThe Australian Education Resear...

Yara Toenders - Inflammation and depression in young people

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Yara Toenders and Dr Lianne Schmaal from Orygen in Melbourne, Australia, talk about their Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on inflammation an...

Suicide Means Restriction

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to this podcast on suicide means restriction, brought to you by the Cochrane Common Mental Disorders group and the Mental Elf.*TRIGGER WARNING...

Ruth Levine

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Presentation Title: The Promise and Pitfalls of Co-creation In this talk, Ruth Levine, CEO of IDInsight, will highlight the ways in which sustained ev...

MQ Data Science 2020

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Andrew McIntosh from the University of Edinburgh, Professor Ann John from Swansea University, Professor Dermot O'Reilly from Queen's Univers...

Rinad Beidas

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rinad Beidas, University of PennsylvaniaPresentation Title: Harnessing implementation science to realize the promise of evidence based practice in ...

#MentalHealthResearchMatters - The Funder’s Perspective: BBSRC

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How can understanding and technologies from the basic biosciences contribute to the wider field of mental health research? What cross-disciplinary int...

Angela Tilby - Thought for the Day, 23rd Feb 2021

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Angela Tilby, Canon Emeritus of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford talks about mental health and the Mental Elf. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

The Importance of Libraries in Impact Assessment

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Interviewer Mark Taylor (NIHR)Danny Kingsley (Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science)Helen Bingham (Health Education England) ...

The History of the International School of Research Impact Assessment

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Interviewer Mark Taylor (NIHR)Jonathan Grant (Kings College London)Paula Adam (AQuAS)Kathryn Graham (Alberta Innovates) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

The Impact of Global Health Research

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Interviewer Saumu Lwembe (NIHR)Imelda Bates (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine)Katherine Wright (Nuffield Council on Bioethics)David Phipps (York ...

The Impact of PPIE and PPIE in Impact

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Interviewer Chris Carrigan (HDR-UK Rutherford Fellow, Patients and Data at Leeds Institute for Data Analytics)Mark Taylor (NIHR)Trish Greenhalgh (Univ...

Allocation - Catriona Firth, UKRI

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Catriona Firth, Associate Director for Research Environment at Research England, talks about allocation with Sana Zakaria from the National Institute...

Advocacy - Maeva May, British Heart Foundation

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Maeva May, Head of Policy at the British Heart Foundation, talks about advocacy to Sana Zakaria from the National Institute of Health Research.This is...

Analysis - Thomas Alslev Christensen

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Alslev Christensen, Senior Vice President at the Novo Nordisk Foundation, talks about analysis with Sana Zakaria from the National Institute of...

Accountability - Kathryn Graham

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kathryn Graham, Executive Director of Performance Management and Evaluation at Alberta Innovates, talks about accountability to Sana Zakaria from the ...

Marc Bennett - Psychological decentering

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Marc Bennett from the University of Cambridge talks about his Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on psychological decentering as a core comp...

Eiluned Pearce - Reducing loneliness #ActiveIngredientsMH

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ellie Pearce shares her recent Wellcome Trust funded #ActiveIngredientsMH review, which looked into reducing loneliness as a potential active ingredie...

Kathrin Cohen Kadosh - Probiotics, prebiotics and better gut microbiome

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Kathrin Cohen Kadosh from the University of Surrey, talks about her Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on psychobiotics and better gut micro...

Kanika Malik - Behavioural Activation

02 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kanika Malik from Sangath in India talks about her Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on behavioural activation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

Karolin Krause and Robyn Mildon - Problem solving

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Karolin Krause from University College London and Dr Robyn Mildon, Executive Director of the Centre for Evidence and Implementation in Australia, t...

Sarah Egan - Self-compassion for the prevention and treatment of anxiety and depression

24 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Sarah Egan, Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, talks about her Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on self-comp...

Catherine Harmer - Antidepressants for young people with depression and anxiety

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Prof Catherine Harmer and Dr Susannah Murphy from the University of Oxford talk about their Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on antidepressan...

Juliana Onwumere

20 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Following her keynote talk at the IEPA Early Intervention in Mental Health conference, Dr Juliana Onwumere talks about her work with families of peopl...

Susan Hannah

06 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Senior Director at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (European Region) talks about Restoring Joy in Work, Prioritising Wellbeing and Preventing...

Don Goldmann

06 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Don Goldmann, MD, Chief Scientific Officer Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, shares his thoughts on the place of...

COH-FIT study overview - Samuele Cortese

06 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Samuele Cortese introduces us to the COH-FIT study (the Collaborative Outcomes study on Health and Functioning during Infection Times).COH-F...

COH-FIT study - Samuele Cortese

06 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Samuele Cortese introduces us to the COH-FIT study (the Collaborative Outcomes study on Health and Functioning during Infection Times).COH-F...

Amar Shah

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What place does quality improvement have in the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic, and what do we need from our healthcare leaders right now?Dr Amar...

Henriette Højsteen

03 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Henriette Højsteen, Principal of the Slottet Care Home in Copenhagen, Denmark, talks about running an LGBT+ care home.In developing our rainbow profi...

Jennifer Lau - Promoting helpful attention and interpretation patterns

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Jennifer Lau from King's College London, talks about her Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on promoting helpful attention and interpretatio...

SMaRteN network – COVID impact on researchers? #MentalHealthResearchMatters

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Elizabeth James, Amy Zile, and Dr Trish Jackman speak about what their research with the SMaRteN network has shown about how Covid-19 impacted doct...

Imogen Bell - Reducing repetitive negative thinking

23 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Imogen Bell from Orygen in Melbourne, Australia, talks about her Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on reducing repetitive negative thinking...

Don Berwick

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Don Berwick, President Emeritus & Senior Fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, talks about the forthcoming International Forum...

Michelle Angelo-Rocha

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michelle Angelo-Rocha from the University of South Florida discusses her talk that won the student best abstract award at the #Together4Action2020 con...

Annahir Cariello

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Vera Paster Award Winner talks about the stigma and discrimination experience by the Latinx Community in the United States, and the ways that ment...

Theresa Betancourt

06 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ahead of her keynote at the Coming Together For Action conference, Professor Theresa Betancourt talks about family-based preventative interventions an...

Irwin Sandler

02 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Irwin Sandler from Arizona State University speaks about adversity and resilience in children and families, as he prepares for his keynote t...

Sally Raphel

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sally Raphel is currently Policy Chair and Consultant at the International Society for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses, but her 60 year career has in...

Sofia Gruskin

23 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Prof Sofia Gruskin, Director of the Institute on Inequalities in Global Health at the University of Southern California, speaks about health and human...

Polly Waite on the BBC Jeremy Vine show

28 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Polly Waite from the Co-Space study speaks about the impact that the COVID-19 lockdown has had on the mental health of children and young people. H...

Ceri #HealthSMI

22 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ceri Owen speaks about her personal experience of managing her physical health and severe mental illness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...

Polly Waite - Youth mental health during COVID-19 lockdown: an update from the Co-Space study

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Children show increase in mental health difficulties over COVID-19 Lockdown – but same pattern not seen in teenagersOver a one-month period in lockd...

Tony David - #COVIDMHregister

29 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Prof Tony David, Director of the UCL Institute of Mental Health, explains why mental health research is so important during the coronavirus pandemic, ...

Lade Smith #COVIDMentalHealth

06 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Lade Smith CBE encourages black and minority ethnic mental health staff to participate in the #COVIDMentalHealth survey.Complete the survey now htt...

Laura Guilfoyle

12 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Guilfoyle, Specialist In-Patient Physiotherapist at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, speaks about her work encouraging physical ...

Kate Honeyford

12 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Honeyford, Business Support Manager and PA to the Head of Research at MPFT, speaks about her work delivering research on physical and mental heal...

Wendy Webb

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Advanced Nurse Practitioner Wendy Webb speaks about her work improving the physical health of patients in a secure forensic mental health setting in S...

Paul Campbell

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Campbell, a researcher based in Stafford, talks about his work getting social care professionals interest in and involved with research. Hosted o...

Katie Montgomery

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Head of Quality Governance and Engagement at the Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust talks about providing primary care services to help reduce ...

Terri Greenhalgh

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Terri Greenhalgh, Quality Lead for a Psychosis Pathway, speaks about her work encouraging mental health patients and staff to engage in more physical ...

Carly Pedley

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nurse Practitioner Carly Pedley speaks about her role in GP practices doing annual health checks for people with severe mental illness. Hosted on Acas...

Iggy Agell

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Iggy Agell, Consultant Psychiatrist from the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust, speaks about compassionate care and mental health. Hosted on Ac...

Jon Roiser and Pasco Fearon, UCL Wellcome 4-year PhD in Mental Health Science

31 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Prof Jonathan Roiser (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and programme lead) and Prof Pasco Fearon (UCL Chair in Developmental Psychopathology) t...

Ed Davie

22 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ed Davie from the Mental Health Foundation shares his work "Mapping the risk of suicide and suicidal thoughts”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...