Edinburgh Napier University’s Centre for Mental Health Practice Policy & Law Research
The Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research is a group of multidisciplinary academics who are united in our desire to realise the right to the highest attainable standard of mental health, for everybody across their lifespan. Our center activity includes clinical and non-clinical research, consultancy, CPD training, and public engagement. The right to mental health has many components to it, which go beyond and include health and social care. And what we’re seeking to do is overcome the barriers to the realisation of the right to mental health. Lived experience and human rights-based
approaches is central to all the research that we do. And we are undertaking groundbreaking research in relation to changing the law, policy, practice, in relation to law enforcement, in dementia, learning disabilities, deinstitutionalisation, decision making,
and even categories of mental illness, such as complex PTSD. The issues encountered by people with
mental illness and mental disability are very personal to them and their families. And so the solutions that we wish to offer must be tailored to meet their needs. We work very closely with a number of stakeholders across all the sectors, both within Scotland and across the UK and internationally. Those could be government departments, it could be third sector, it could be regulatory or monitoring bodies with lived experience representation groups. Our doctoral and masters students are
integral to the life of the centre. And we can offer expertise to support them in their future careers, whether that’s as researchers in health and social care or as leaders in their field. We’re often told that one in four adults and one in ten children are likely to suffer mental ill health. And we understand, actually, that that might have increased post-COVID. So it’s a real problem that’s not going to go away. And therefore, we want to work even harder to address real life problems in this area and provide real solutions that actually benefit people who are living with these conditions, that is mental illness and mental disability and their families and also people working in the field as well. If you’re interested in working with us, either as a collaborator or as a student, please get in touch with us via our website.
Edinburgh Napier’s Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research believes everyone has a right to the highest attainable standard of mental health across individuals’ lifespan.
The Centre employs an expert multi-disciplinary approach to addressing health and social care needs and challenges to find meaningful and impactful solutions.
The Centre collaborations between academics, students and key public, private and third sector stakeholders, including, importantly, persons with lived experience of mental ill-health, dementia, personality disorder and learning disability and neurodiverse people, carers and practitioners.
Learn more at: https://www.napier.ac.uk/about-us/our-schools/the-school-of-health-and-social-care/our-research/mental-health