Our Research Projects

Mental Health Helplines Partnerships (MHHP) is an umbrella body for over fifty organisations offering helpline services to those with mental health needs. This project evaluates the effectiveness of fourteen of MHHP's member helplines.

We want to find out how the generation of people currently aged 55-65 can protect their mental health and wellbeing as they get older.

We are investigating the practice of offering and administering direct payments for people who lack capacity.

The Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project (DEEP) collects information about all the important, inspiring and exciting UK activities, groups and projects that involve people living with dementia, influencing services and polices that affect them.

We are evaluating a project that enables ex-servicemen and women to enjoy a structured activity - gardening - in a safe environment.

A project employing and supporting five people as part-time researchers - each of them have experience of long term mental health conditions and living in a low income area or being an asylum seeker or refugee.

We are evaluating the impact and sustainability of a charity that uses an innovative ‘street therapy’ approach with some of the UK's most deprived young people.

Mental health research investment is disproportionately low in relation to the relevant disease burden. We argue that in order to gain significant advancement in the understanding and treatment of mental illness, funding for research has to be increased.

We have been commissioned by The NHS Confederation to investigate the views of mental health service users and their carers on personal health budgets in mental health.

We are reviewing the evidence base for promoting positive mental health in workplaces and piloting and evaluating this with employer partners.