Centre for Mental Health and Society

Current Projects

Young SPACES – Exploration for the potential of a physical activity intervention to be included within Early Intervention is Psychosis services.

Investigators Emily Peckham. Trys Burke

Funded by RCF Scheme. Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust.

Started 2025

This project aims to complete preliminary work within Early Intervention in Psychosis services (EIP) to explore the possibility of physical activity being included in routine care. This project will underpin a future NIHR grant to further investigate this topic, with the hope to develop a feasible, acceptable, and effective intervention, that will support people in […]

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TRIDENT

Investigators Emily Peckham

Funded by NIHR

Started 2024

Finished 2029

Title –  Tobacco risk reDuctions with E-Cigarette Nicotine Therapy among adults with serious MI (TRIDENT). Being led from Oxford University by Professor Paul Aveyard. Aims To develop a brief offer of an e-cigarette, and a continued support programme given by mental health professionals (MHPs) that meets the needs of people with serious mental illness (SMI) […]

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Developing an international minimum data set for burn registries: Delphi study for A Burns Common Data Element Minimum Data Set (ABCDE-MDS)

Investigators Bebbingon, E., Poole, R.

Funded by ISPF

Started 2024

This study will use expert consensus using a Delphi process to develop an international minimum data set for burn injuries. This would be a list of variables (information) that should be collected about every patient who presents to a hospital with a burn injury around the world. By standardising the variables collected about patients, it […]

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Health and Care Research Wales Social Care PhD Studentship Award 2023

Investigators Peter Huxley. Anne Krayer. John Carden. Sharon Hutchings.

Funded by Health and Care Research Wales

Started 2023

Finished 2026

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Title: In Wales, are contemporary models of front-line social care for people with recurrent mental ill health fit for purpose? : a mixed methods study. Summary: Welsh Government policy recognises that providing social support in the community is complex. They are putting forward plans to create services that join up better, in order to meet […]

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Substance Misuse Services Evaluation in HMP Berwyn: a mixed method study

Investigators Dr Sadia Nafees, Dr Simon Newman, Dr Justin Lawson, Amber O'Brien, Prof Peter Huxley, Prof Rob Poole, Kim Barnett

Funded by BCUHB

Started 2022

Finished 2025

This study aims to capture a prisoners journey (including previous offending history to 6 months post release).  It will also explore the risk factors for illicit drug usage and to evaluate the SMS management during their stay in prison.

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Supporting Physical Activity through Co-production in people with severe mental illness (SPACES)

Investigators Emily Peckham. Trys Burke

Funded by NIHR

Started 2021

Finished 2027

SPACES is a research project whose aim is to develop an intervention to help people with severe mental ill health to become more active. The project is a collaboration between researchers and people with lived experience of severe mental ill health. Researchers from Bangor University, York St John, University of York, Leeds, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam […]

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INSIGHT: Integrating social determinants of health in medical education during Psychiatry prison placements

Investigators Sadia Nafees,Jakub Matusiuak, Rob Poole

Funded by BCUHB

Started 2021

Background: The importance of the social determinants of health (SDOH) is increasingly recognised. However, medical students are taught about them as epidemiological facts. We established a programme in North Wales involving prison placements for medical students, accompanied by specific teaching to contextualise SDOH to individual patients’ mental health problems. This is being evaluated over a […]

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South Asia Self-Harm Initiative (SASHI)

Investigators CA Robinson, P Huxley, A Krayer, M Krishna, K Nikopoulos, R Poole; GV Krishnaveni & K Kumaran, R Rajendra,y, N Husain, I Leroi, P Taylor, K Hawton

Funded by RCUK, Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)

Started 2017

Global Challenge Research Fund: South Asia Self Harm research capability building Initiative (GCRF-SASHI) SASHI formed in late 2015 as a collaboration led by the Centre for Mental Health and Society at Bangor University. It is a partnership between researchers working in South Asia and the UK. The purpose of the GCRF-SASHI project is to help […]

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Co-SPACES

Investigators Emily Peckham. Trys Burke

Funded by NIHR

Finished 2025

Co-SPACES is part of SPACES which is a research project whose aim is to develop an intervention to help people with severe mental ill health to become more active. The project is a collaboration between researchers and people with lived experience of severe mental ill health. Researchers from Bangor University, York St John, University of […]

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Development of self-harm registry for North Wales (SaVER)

Investigators Bebbington E,. Poole, R,. Krayer, A, Robinson, C.

Funded by Bangor University

Finished 2025

The aim of the project is to adapt processes from the UKRI MRC funded GCRF South Asia Self-Harm Initiative (SASHI) and to establish systems that will enable future implementation of a self-harm register in emergency departments across BCUHB and, eventually, nationally across Wales. We will: • Bring together and work with key partners in unscheduled […]

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SMILE

Investigators Emily Peckham. Sadia Nafees

Funded by NIHR

Title: Enabling Service Users with Severe Mental Illness to Learn about and Engage (SMILE) with Good Oral Health: Co-production, Feasibility and Acceptability of a Systems intervention Aim: Co-production of an oral health intervention to improve oral health in people with severe mental illness and testing its feasibility and acceptability Objectives: Co-produce materials for a behaviour change […]

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Deterring and Reducing Opioid Prescribing in Primary care (DROPP)

Investigators John Bailey, Sadia Nafees, Rob Poole, Simon Gill

Funded by Unfunded

Impact of the work: Building on research in CFMHAS on the identification, development, treatment, effectiveness, harms, and experiences of patients and prescribers of prolonged high-dose medication for chronic pain, we have underway a project to identify every patient prescribed high doses of opioids for pain in a local GP cluster and intervene to reduce those […]

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Group of International Researchers in Adolescent Forensic (GIRAF)

Investigators Heidi Hales

Funded by Crime in Mind charity

Who are we? We are an expanding, multidisciplinary group of professionals working in forensic and associated settings in different countries whose work relates to adolescents who are in difficulty. The nature of the adolescents’ difficulties varies but they are likely to be young people who face, make or take the highest levels of risk; are […]

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