Our partners at Unifranz Bolivia visiting the community of San Jose de Chiquitos, one of the areas we are working with. The visit was filled with meetings and gatherings with the community leaders to talk about our Centre's activities NIHR Global Health Social Psychiatry

Work with our lovely team on the ESRC-funded CREATE study. Co-create a protocol for delivering arts-therapy to children and young people who have experienced victimization through illegal employment and exploitation in Bangladesh, India and Nepal. 7 May! qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies…

Today for our 2pm seminar, we heard from Dr Tessa Roberts (Tessa Roberts) who has recently come back from Trinidad where she has been conducting participatory action research to better understand how to improve mental health in the East Dry River neighborhoud

I would like to alert you to a new Post Doc vacancy at the Youth Resilience Unit. Pls share
qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies… Delivering arts-therapy based groups to children who have experienced victimization through illegal employment and exploitation in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.

Burnout in #healthcareworkers is a growing global issue and I am delighted to have begun international dissemination of the CHArt #arttherapy intervention with the Icelandic Art Therapy Association in Reykjavik this week. Dr. Unnur Ottarsdottir British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) Social Psychiatry Barts Charity

What an amazing week !! 🥳
Making our #coproduced #film about #ArtTherapy #practice

All drawn from #research & #LivedExperience

Incredible actors with #LearningDisabilities challenging #representation

Social Psychiatry Barts Charity

Today we had a mini Eid celebration following our 11am team meeting- ice creams, cakes & baklava for all! Eid Mubarak to all our followers

Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate ✨

Come and #work with the lovely Youth #Resilience Unit team! Postdoctoral Research Assistant, CREATE (Cultivating REsilience in Adolescents with Trauma-related Emotions) study. Deadline 23 April - pls share! qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies…

Are you or a colleague producing research exploring the impact of adverse childhood experiences on the brain? Colleagues at our sister unit Youth Resilience Unit are calling for papers! 📰

A wonderful panel from Colombia on how adolescents used arts methods to deal with mental distress during the pandemic in a project in collaboration with Social Psychiatry. So good to hear from some of the young people themselves. BRiCs Project Medicina Javeriana People's Palace Projects

Professor Victoria Bird Victoria Bird opened the Blue Festival (the art of mental health) being held by People’s Palace Projects @PeopsPalaceUK over the next few days.

Check out the full programme here peoplespalaceprojects.org.uk/en/blue-festiv…

Starting today!

Three days of films, workshops, talks and performances about the art of mental health.

All are free at Queen Mary University, BLOC, Arts One

Check out the programme and join us!

peoplespalaceprojects.org.uk/en/blue-festiv…

Lovely to be at the #BlueFestival today with other researchers from the Youth Resilience Unit and Social Psychiatry. Looking forward to hearing more about using the arts to reimagine mental health! People's Palace Projects

“For she’s a jolly good Fellow!” Today we said goodbye to Talia who is leaving to start her doctoral fellowship (funded by NIHR Research) at Centre for Preventive Neurology pursuing a lifelong dream to research blood bio markers in AD in minoritised ethnic groups. You’ll be missed

Great to see involvement activities beginning as part of the LATAM study

Today for the Monday seminar Nelly Wright from Research & Innovation - ELFT talked about the the Participant in Research Experience Survey run by NIHR Research You can find out more about the North Thames results of the PRES here: local.nihr.ac.uk/lcrn/north-tha…

Prof Dennis Ougrin, co-lead of the YRU Youth Resilience Unit, our sister unit, delivered a remarkable, moving inaugural lecture this evening Wolfson Institute of Population Health Barts Charity