Centre for Mental Health and Society

Member, CFMHAS

Professor of Mental Health Research

School of Health Sciences, Bangor University
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p.huxley@bangor.ac.uk

03000 847090

Peter Huxley

Professor Peter Huxley has over 50 years’ experience in social work, social care and social psychiatry practice and research. He was the first Professor of Psychiatric Social work in the UK and the first social worker to be a Head of a Department of Psychiatry (at Manchester University where he worked for 30 years). Before coming to Bangor he was the first Professor of Social Work at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. He has received multi-million pounds worth of research funding beginning in 1984, and has written 10 books and 200 peer-reviewed journal articles. His longest standing research collaborations to date have been  with Sir David Goldberg (‘Mental illness in the community: The Pathway to Psychiatric Care’1980) the late Dr Richard Warner in Boulder Colorado (‘Recovery from Schizophrenia in the 21st Century’ 2021) and Marcus Chiu and Kara Chan in Hong Kong (‘Social Inclusion: Theoretical Development and Cross-cultural measurements’ 2022; City University of Hong Kong Press).

Grants

Principal Investigator

  • Health and Care Research Wales Social Care PhD Studentship Award.  2023-2026.  £75k.
  • SWISH (Social Work Intervention following Self-harm) NISCHR (WG) Social Care Research Fund. 2013-2015 £207,000.
  • DISSECT (Dementia: Improving Staff Stress and Satisfaction – Evaluation by Cluster Trial (co-app), £273K from NISCHR (WG). 2012-2015
  • SCOPE-C the development of a Chinese language version of the SCOPE for NGO services in Hong Kong, £125k from ESRC. 2012-2014

Co-Investigator

  • DIGITS Development’ Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust RCF.  with Emily Peckham. £9,997.72
  • PRISMATIC (PI Helen Snooks) SDO grant £500,000. 2010-2014
  • DeCoDer (Debt Counselling for depression in primary care (£2m) PI Mark Gabbay, University of Liverpool. 2013-2017
  • PARTNERS2: development and pilot trial of primary care based collaborative care for people with serious mental illness (co-app), £1.9m NIHR England. PI Max Birchwood, Birmingham University (now Warwick). 2012-2017
  • SNA for modelling integrated social care service. PI A Orrel. Wales Government, £215,852. 01/10/16 – 30/09/18
  • SASHI South Asia Self Harm Research capability building. PI Catherine Robinson, MRC £1,565,107. 01/04/17 – 31/03/21
  • SASHI extension. PI Catherine Robinson, MRC £181,970. 01/10/17 – 30/09/21
  • National Centre for Mental Health (NCMH), PI Catherine Robinson, Wales Government 01/04/15 – 31/03/18
  • National Centre for Mental Health (NCMH), PI Catherine Robinson, Wales Government 01/04/18 – 31/03/20 £8761

Supervision

Sharon Hutchings PhD Student

Undergraduate Internship Scheme 2023-2024 – Social assessment and outcomes in AI enhanced case management

Other Measures of Esteem

For several years an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the David Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon.

Books

  • Chan, K., Huxley, P, J.. Social Inclusion: Theoretical Development and Cross-cultural Measurements. ISBN: 9789629376420: City University of Hong Kong Press; 2022.

Papers

  • Nyakutsikwa, B, Taylor, PJ, Hawton, K, Poole, R, Weerasinghe, M, Dissanayake, K, Rajapakshe, S, Hashini, P, Eddleston, M, Konradsen, F, Huxley, P, Robinson, C, Pearson, M. Financial stress and self-harm in Sri Lanka. Archives of Suicide Research Journal. 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2024.2403499
  • Poole, R., Huxley, P.. Social prescribing: an inadequate response to the degradation of social care in mental health. BJPsych Bulletin. 2023. 1-4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2023.61
  • Huxley P, Krayer A, Poole R, Gromadzka A, Jie, D L and Nafees, S . The Goldberg–Huxley model of the pathway to psychiatric care: 21st-century systematic review. BJPsych Open. 2023. Volume 9 , Issue 4 , July 2023 , e114. Available from: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/goldberghuxley-model-of-the-pathway-to-psychiatric-care-21stcentury-systematic-review/A26CD636065EF580691D379C2CD60682 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2023.505
  • Richard, B., Creanor, S., Jones, B., Hosking, J., Plapppert, J., Bevan, S., Britten, N., Clark, M., Davies, L., Frost, J., Gask, L., Gibbons, N., Gibson, J., Hardy, P., Hobson-Merrett, C., Huxley, P., Jeffery, A., Marwaha, S., Rawcliffe, R., Reilly, S., Richards, D., Sayers, R., Williams, D., Pinfold, P., Birchwood, C. . The effectiveness of a primary care-based collaborative care model to improve quality of life in people with severe mental illness: PARTNERS2 cluster randomised controlled trial. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 2023. Volume 222 , Issue 6 , June 2023 , pp. 246 - 256 . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2023.28
  • Carden, J., Huxley, P, J., Poole, R., Robinson, C., Salmoiraghi, A., Foulkes, J., Davies, S., Williams, S., Morris., Meudell, A. Social causes and outcomes of acute transient psychotic disorder: A review of recent evidence. Int J Soc Psychiatry . 2023. 69(2):412-419. . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640221106681
  • Huxley, R & Poole, R. Social psychiatry lives!. BJPsych Bulletin. 2022. Volume 47 , Issue 2 , April 2023 , pp. 65 - 67 . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2022.77
  • McPhillips, R., Nafees, S., Elahi, A., Batool, S., Krishna, M., Krayer, A., Huxley, P., Chaudhry, N., Robinson, C.. Knowledge, attitudes and experiences of self-harm and suicide in low-income and middle-income countries: protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open . 2022. 11(6): e041645. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041645
  • Huxley, P., Krayer, A., Poole, R., Prendergast, L., Aryal, S. & Warner, R. . Schizophrenia outcomes in the 21st century: A systematic review. Brain and Behaviour. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2172
  • Reilly, S., Marchevsky, N., Green, M., Davies, L., Plappert, H., Allard, J., Rawcliffe, T., Gibson, J., Clark, M., Pinfold, V., Gask, L., Huxley, P., Byng, R. & Birchwood, M.,. Status of primary and secondary mental health care of people with severe mental illness: An epidemiological study from the UK PARTNERS2 study. British Journal of Psychiatry. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2021.10
  • Retzer A, Sayers R, Pinfold V, Gibson J, Keeley T, Taylor G, Plappert H, Gibbons B, Huxley P, Mathers J, Birchwood M, Calvert M. Development of a Core Outcome Set for use in community-based bipolar trials – A qualitative study and modified Delphi.. Plos One. 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240518
  • Orrell, A, Dallimore, D, Krayer, A. & Huxley, P. Fragmentation or integration: A mixed methods case study of integrated services for older people with high support needs. International Journal of Integrated Care. 2019. 19, S1, 2, 626. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.s3626
  • McPhillips, R, Nafees, S, Krishna, M, Krayer, A, Huxley, P. & Robinson, C, . Knowledge, attitudes, and experiences of self-harm and suicide: a systematic review. 2019.
  • S Reilly, C McCabe, N Marchevsky, L Davies, N Ives, R Rawcliffe, J Gibson, C Mike, V Pinfold, P Huxley, R Byng, M Birchwood . Secondary and primary care service use for people with severe mental illness: explaining between-site differences. EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRY . 2019. Vol. 56, pp. S573-S573.
  • Ng, Y. L, Chan, K, Balwicki, L, Huxley, P. & Chiu, M. Y, . The Digital Divide, social inclusion and health among persons with mental illness in Poland. International Journal of Communication. 2019. 13, 1652-1672. DOI: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/10584
  • Balwicki, L, Chan, K, Huxley, P & Yu-Lung Chiu, M. Applying SCOPE to Measure Social Inclusion Among People with Mental Illness in Poland. Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health. 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-018-0113-5
  • M.B., G, Ring, A, Byng, R, Anderson, P, Taylor, RS, Matthews, C, Harris, T, Berry, V, Byrne, P, Carter, E, Clarke, P, Cocking, L, Edwards, S, Emsley, R, Fornasiero, M, Frith, L, Harris, S, Huxley, P, Jones, S, Kinderman, P, King, M, Kosnes, L, Marshall, D, Mercer, D, May, C, Nolan, D, Philips, C, Rawcliffe, T, Sardani, AV, Shaw, E, Thompson, S, Vickery, J, Wainman, B & Warner, M . https://doi.org/10.3310/hta21350 [Internet]. Debt Counselling for Depression in Primary Care: an adaptive randomised controlled pilot trial (DeCoDer study). Health Technology Assessment. 2017. vol. 21, no. 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/hta21350
  • Islam, S, Baker, C, Huxley, P, Russell, I & Dennis, M . The nature, characteristics and associations of care home staff stress and wellbeing: A national survey’. BMC Nursing. 2017. vol. 16, 22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-017-0216-4
  • Rosalind, W, Scourfield, J & Huxley, P . Islamic Social Work in the UK: The Service User Experience. British Journal of Social Work. 2017. 47 (3): 737-754. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcw006
  • Huxley, P & Ahmed, N. Is there a case for using social outcomes in self-harm research?. European Psychiatry. 2017. vol. 41, no. S295. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.02.170
  • Chan, K, Chiu, MY, Evans, S, Huxley, PJ & Ng, YL . Application of SCOPE-C to measure social inclusion among mental health services users in Hong Kong. Community Mental Health Journal. 2016. 52 (8: 1113-1117. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-015-9907-z
  • Ahmed, N, John, A, Islam, S, Jones, R, Anderson, P, Davies, C, Khanom, A, Harris, S & Huxley, P. Investigating the feasibility of an enhanced contact intervention in self-harm and suicidal behaviour: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial delivering a Social support and Wellbeing Intervention following Self-Harm (SWISH). BMJ Open. 2016. 6 (9) . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012043
  • Yu-Lung Chiu, M, Lim, K, Chan, K, Evans, S & Huxley, P. What does social inclusion mean to Singaporeans? A qualitative study of the concept of social inclusion. Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, . 2016. 26, 2-3, 64-76. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2016.1218357
  • Davies, N, Livingston, W, Owen, E & Huxley, P. Social care legislation as an act of integration. Journal of Integrated Care. 2016. 24 (3): 139-149. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JICA-03-2016-0009
  • Chan, K, Huxley, P, Yu-Lung Chiu, M, Evans, S & Ma, Y. Social Inclusion and Health Conditions Among Chinese Immigrants in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom: An Exploratory Study. Social Indicators Research. 2016. 126 (2): 657-672. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-0910-0
  • Huxley, PJ, Chan, K, Chiu, MY, Ma, S, Gaze, S & Evans, S . The social and community opportunities profile social inclusion measure: Structural equivalence and differential item functioning in community mental health residents in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 2016. 62 (2): 133-140. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764015607550
  • Huxley, PJ. The development and results of the Mental Health Integration Index. Public Mental Health. 2015. 14 (4): 205-210. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JPMH-07-2015-0030
  • Huxley, PJ. The European Mental Health Integration Index: reflections and conclusions. Psychiatria. 2015. vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 6-8.
  • Pinfold, V, Sweet, D, Porter, I, Quinn, C, Byng, R, Griffiths, C, Billsborough, J, Enki, DG, Chandler, R, Webber, M, Larsen, J, Carpenter, J & Huxley, P. Improving community health networks for people with severe mental illness: a case study investigation. Health Services and Delivery Research. 2015. 3 (5) . DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr03050
  • Keeley, T, Khan, H, Pinfold, V, Williamson, P, Mathers, J, Davies, L, Sayers, R, England, E, Reilly, S, Byng, R, Gask, L, Clark, M, Huxley, PJ & Lewis, P. Core outcome sets for use in effectiveness trials involving people with bipolar and schizophrenia in a community-based setting (PARTNERS2): study protocol for the development of two core outcome sets. Trials. 2015. (16) 47. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0553-0
  • Baker, C, Huxley, P, Dennis, M, Islam, S & Russell, I. Alleviating staff stress in care homes for people with dementia: protocol for stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial to evaluate a web-based Mindfulness- Stress Reduction course. BMC Psychiatry. 2015. 5 (317) . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-015-0703-7
  • Chan, K, Evans, S, Chiu, MY, Huxley, PJ & Ng, Y. Relationship Between Health, Experience of Discrimination, and Social Inclusion Among Mental Health Service Users in Hong Kong. Social Indicators Research. 2014. 124 (1): 127-139. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-014-0780-x

Online Publishing

  • Reilly, S., Hobson-Merrett, C., Gibbons,, B., Jones, B., Richards, D., Plappert, H., Gibson, J., Green, M., Gask, L., Huxley, P., Druss, B., Planner, C.. Collaborative care approaches for people with severe mental illness. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR). 2024. 2024 May 7;5(5):CD009531.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD009531.pub3
  • Carvalho dos Santos, J., Huxley, P.. The social inclusion of mental health service users in Brazil: Applying SCOPE-B scale. Social Work and Social Sciences Review. 2024. Vol 25 (1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v25i1.2302
  • Baker, C., Dennis, M., Islam, M., Russell., T., Huxley, P.. Web-based mindfulness course for staff working in care homes in Wales for older people with dementia. Social Work and Social Sciences Review. 2024. Vol 25 (1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v25i1.2300