MENTAL HEALTH & HEALTHY LIFESPANS
Welcome to our webpage for the Healthy lifespan Institute (HELSI) First Meeting on Mental Health and Healthy Lifespans Monday 27th March 2022 09:00 - 12:00
About
Date/Time: Monday 27th March 2022 09:00 - 12:00
Venue: Firth Court Council Room (up the main staircase, take a right at the top and follow to the end of the corridor)
Background: Mental health disorders are often associated with other multiple long-term chronic conditions and are the result of exposure to risk factors across the lifecourse. There is mental health research in the 5 faculties in Sheffield but spread across different groups and departments and often in silos, resulting in fragmentation and lack of the critical mass necessary to establish large programmes of interdisciplinary research.
The aim of this event is to bring together all the groups with a research interest in mental health in Sheffield to map expertise, assess our size and research capability, identify potential areas of strength and/or areas we could develop to become nationally and internationally competitive.
Can we collaborate to improve our chances of securing large research grants?
Meeting Aims:
To discuss & map existing mental health research expertise and interest in Sheffield
To explore the potential for a new Healthy Lifespan Institute workstream on mental health and healthy lifespans
Event Programme
09:00 - 09:20
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Welcome & Overview
09:20 - 10:20
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Five minute 'pitches' on expertise, interests & priorities & opportunity for Q&A. Speakers include:
Professor Tim Kendall (NHS England's National Clinical Director for Mental Health)
Professor Scott Weich (ScHARR): Mental Health Research at ScHARR
Dr Myles Jones (Psychology) & Professor Markus Reuber (Neuroscience): Mental Health Research at the Institute of Neuroscience
Professor Damian Hodgson (Management School): Workforce and Organisational Challenges in Mental Health Care
Dr Stephanie Ejegi-Memeh (Sociological Studies/Health Sciences School): Mental well-being in marginalised communities
Dr Venet Osmani (Information School): Digital Biomarkers for Mental Health
10:20 - 10:50
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Coffee & Networking Break
Chat to colleagues over tea, coffee and refreshments
10:50 - 11:30
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Group discussions around emerging themes and future actions
11:30 - 12:00
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Feedback from groups and agreement of next steps
Registration
We invite you to register your interest in either a) presenting a short ‘pitch’ describing how your work connects to the themes above, or b) simply attending to find out more. Please do so using the form below and you will receive a calendar invite.
Organisers
Professor Ilaria Bellantuono
Co-Director of the Healthy Lifespan Institute, Professor of Musculoskeletal Ageing, Department of Oncology & Metabolism
Email: i.bellantuono@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor Scott Weich
Professor of Mental Health at the School of Health and Related Research, and Head of the Mental Health Research Unit
Email: s.weich@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Gemma Stephens
Healthy Lifespan Institute Manager
Email: g.stephens@sheffield.ac.uk
About the Healthy lifespan Institute
At the Healthy Lifespan Institute (HELSI) we're uniting over 200 researchers spanning all 5 TUoS Faculties to tackle the global epidemic of multimorbidity – the presence of two or more age related chronic conditions – to help everyone live healthier, independent lives for longer and reduce the cost of care.
HELSI is helping people live fulfilling, independent lives for longer by:
Understanding ageing as a lifelong process and its relationship with later life multimorbidity and frailty
Pioneering medical treatments to prevent multimorbidity and boost resilience in frail older adults
Developing policies and best practices to optimise the social, environmental and economic factors that influence how we age
Analysing the most effective combinations of social and behavioural change to promote healthy ageing
Co-producing with service users, patients and carers to devise solutions that work in real life settings
Training future generations of top quality researchers dedicated to transforming ageing
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