Queen Mary University of London to Host New Hub for National Mental Health Research Platform

The new £22.5 million mental health platform will bring together researchers from a wide range of disciplines and institutions. The hub at Queen Mary will focus on ‘building recovery and resilience in severe mental illness: leveraging the role of social determinants in illness trajectories and interventions’. It will generate new knowledge on the role of social determinants in influencing the course and outcomes of SMIs, and how ‘protective’ social factors can be used to build resilience and aid recovery in people with SMIs.

Professor Lau said: “Our community in East London is one of the most diverse in the country. It is also one that faces major health inequalities affecting peoples’ accesses to services and support. We want to look at how things like the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live and age influence the journeys and outcomes of people living with severe mental illness – and how we can change those things to lead to better health outcomes.”