Placement Reflections: A Week Inside Mental Health Research
Dr. Razia Jabbar (FY1 doctor, Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust), reflects on her experience during the National Institute for Health & Care Research (NIHR) Mental Health Research…
Read more Workshop Reflections: From Idea to App
We spoke with Dr A. Jess Williams, Lecturer in Suicide Prevention at Swansea University, about her reflections on the recent early career researcher workshop hosted by DATAMIND UK and MQ…
Read more 6 Skills Early Career Researchers benefit from building
In the early stages of a scientific career, Early career researchers (ECRs) often face a common challenge: developing the technical and collaborative skills needed to work with increasingly complex research…
Read more Winter update from our LEAG
Here is an update from Naomi Clements-Brod, Patient and Public Involvement Research Lead here at DATAMIND: The Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG) have had a busy Autumm! Here’s just some of…
Read more Data-Driven Participant Recruitment in Mental Health Research: A Workshop Recap
Introduction On 12 March 2025, stakeholders across the mental health research landscape gathered at the Science Gallery in London for an important workshop hosted by the Data & Digital Workstream…
Read more Beyond the Algorithm: How NLP is Reshaping Mental Health Research and Care
Author name: Benjamin Holgate ‘Insights from HealTAC 2025’s Mental Health and the New NLP DATAMIND Workshop’ Introduction How recent shifts in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have and will in future…
Read more Industry Forum: a Lived Experience Perspective
Author name: Lisa Couperthwaite Institution name: Complex Emotions Hub; McPin Foundation The UKRI Mental Health Platform Industry Alliance Forum, held in partnership with DATAMIND, and the Medicines Discovery Catapult, took place…
Read more Reflections from the Industry Alliance Forum: What Genuine Collaboration in Mental Health Really Looks Like
By Dr Marcos del Pozo Baños DATAMIND FAIR Curated Data Lead & Senior Researcher I recently took part in the Industry Alliance Forum, a full-day event held in partnership with the…
Read more Reflections on the MQ DATAMIND Meeting 2025
by Bryony Doughty This blog was written for MQ by Dr Amy Ronaldson. In May 2025, the MQ DATAMIND Data Science biannual meeting took place at the London HQ of Deutsche Bank. As…
Read more Unlocking Research Insights: Making Better Use of Data Sources for Mental Health Research
The DATAMIND & MQ ECR Workshop, Unlocking Research Insights and Harmonising Clinical & Survey Data, recently took place in London. In this blog, Hatem Mona, Data Scientist and Psychiatric Epidemiologist at…
Read more Lived Experience and Longitudinal Research – the Perfect Partnership
Written by Craig Perryman from MQ Researchers at King’s College London, supported by MQ, the Wellcome Trust and experts by lived experience have launched a ground-breaking platform that can facilitate research…
Read more Developing and Testing the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets
Written by Craig Perryman from MQ Researchers at King’s College London, supported by MQ, the Wellcome Trust and experts by lived experience have launched a ground-breaking platform that can facilitate research…
Read more Data Science Recap: Natural Language Processing & Linking Electronic Health Data
The DATAMIND and MQ Data Science Meeting & Workshop took place in London recently. Corine Driessens (pictured above) is a passionate Mental Health Data Scientist who attended the event in…
Read more Using Digital Approaches to Improve Mental Health and Wellbeing: My Journey with DATAMIND
Hi, I’m Pauline Whelan, and I work with DATAMIND, developing digital approaches to enhance mental health research. I am a researcher in digital health based at the University of Manchester…
Read more Data Science Recap: Navigating Data, Trust, and Ethics in Mental Health Research
The DATAMIND & MQ Data Science Meeting & Workshop recently took place in London. Here is an account from early career researcher, Aeron Kim, about their experiences at the meeting. …
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