Mental Health in Development

The Supporting Early Minds Research Network is part of a wider project called Mental Health in Development (MHID). MHID aims to deliver targeted, effective and accessible mental health interventions to meet the needs of diverse children and young people (aged 0-18 years). They are doing this through a range of projects which are developing infrastructure, research capacity and collaborations across institutions and sectors.

You might be interested in these other MHID projects:

Parent Carer Research Network: a research network set up to champion the voices of parents and carers in children and young people’s mental health research, founded and facilitated by parents with lived experience, the Charlie Waller Trust, and research teams at the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford.

WISDOM Schools Research Network: a research network bringing together primary and secondary schools in England with academic researchers to facilitate high quality mental health research that meets the diverse needs of school communities.

AnDY (Anxiety and Depression in Young people) Research Clinic Oxford: a clinic embedded in CAMHS focused on assessing and treating young people for anxiety, OCD and depression disorders, and undertaking research into the development, maintenance and treatment of such disorders.

Adaptive Innovative Methods (AIM): a digital community aiming to build better psychological treatments for children and young people.

INSiGHTS: a project working collaboratively with young people, families and communities to develop innovative and inclusive ways to do research, particularly with groups who are currently not well represented in research.

Our Partners

We work in conjunction with the Universities of Birmingham, Reading, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes and York, the Charlie Waller Trust, and the Oxford Health, Berkshire Healthcare and Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trusts.

Our Funders

MHID is part of the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR funds, enables and delivers world-leading health and social care research that improves people’s health and wellbeing and promotes economic growth. NIHR BRCs are collaborations between universities and NHS organisations, bringing together academics and clinicians to translate research into new treatments, diagnostics, and technologies. In 2022, the NIHR awarded £816 million over five years to 20 BRCs across England.