scholarly journals Beware the problems of centralisation. Commentary on … Mental health research system in England

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 446-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Lelliott
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
Research System ◽  
Health Research System

It is difficult to disagree with Chilvers & Clark that, overall, recent work to bring a more systematic approach to the organisation of mental health research in England has been a good thing. It is also necessary if mental health is to compete for research funding with other branches of healthcare. However, recent changes in the research system have not all been positive and there is a danger that the process of centralisation, which is inherent to the model they describe, will have unintended adverse consequences.

scholarly journals The ground is in great shape, but can we field a kitted-out team? Commentary on … Mental health research system in England

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 447-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Szmukler
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Research System ◽  
Health Research System ◽  
Use Of Resources

Chilvers & Clark make it clear that research and development (R&D) in the National Health Service (NHS) is now a managed process. There is a coherent strategy and much thought has been given to the use of resources. I welcome this development and the ‘Health Research System’ that forms its framework.

scholarly journals A global map of mental health research funding

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Pollitt ◽  
Gavin Cochrane ◽  
Anne Kirtley ◽  
Joachim Krapels ◽  
Vincent Larivière ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Mental Health Research

Technopsyence and Afro-Surrealism's Cripistemologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Banner
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Mental Distress ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
Risk Culture

This article critiques today’s digital mental health research and treatment paradigms through a crip theoretical approach. I argue that, implemented in a neoliberal risk culture and austerity logics that implement big data to capacitate and debilitate, psychiatric technoscientific endeavors (what I call “technopsyience”) reproduce racial capitalism in their aim of governing mentalities.Yet mobile devices are also the means by which crip bodyminds creatively interrogate and resist racial capitalism and the psy discourses that support it. I explore a recent work of Afro-Surrealism that presents scenes of extractive racial capitalism, fantasies of digital futures, mental distress, and care, and that, I argue, opens up avenues for thinking bodyminds and the digital otherwise.

scholarly journals Mapping the global mental health research funding system

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Pollitt ◽  
Gavin Cochrane ◽  
Anne Kirtley ◽  
Joachim Krapels ◽  
Vincent Larivière ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Global Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Funding System

scholarly journals Rethinking funding priorities in mental health research

2016 ◽  
Vol 208 (6) ◽  
pp. 507-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Lewis-Fernández ◽  
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus ◽  
Virginia Trotter Betts ◽  
Lisa Greenman ◽  
Susan M. Essock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
High Income ◽  
Prevention And Treatment

SummaryMental health research funding priorities in high-income countries must balance longer-term investment in identifying neurobiological mechanisms of disease with shorter-term funding of novel prevention and treatment strategies to alleviate the current burden of mental illness. Prioritising one area of science over others risks reduced returns on the entire scientific portfolio.

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