The McPin Foundation and the James Lind Alliance are currently conducting research to uncover the 10 unanswered questions in young people’s mental health
• Patients and patient representatives, families, academics, educationalists, carers, and clinicians will work together
• The output will be compared with existing research and the gap identified
• Their goal is to publish the 10 unanswered questions by the end of 2018
Based upon this research, our Research Advisory Panel will help select research projects. Miricyl’s research panel.
• Professor Clair Chilvers, former Chair of Gloucestershire NHS Trust and founding Chair of Mental Health Research UK
• Professor Matthias Schwannauer Head of Clinical & Health Psychology and The Centre for Applied Developmental Psychology at the University of Edinburgh
• Professor Helen Minnis, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Glasgow University
All projects will go through a rigorous peer review process where experts in the particular field will pass judgment on the proposed research projects. Projects will be marked on academic excellence; track record; quality of proposal and cost and likely benefit.