Overview
Research Culture and Mental Health
A panel event for University Mental Health Day 2022
16.00-17.30 on Thursday, 3rd March 2022
This event is for researchers, researcher developers and professional services colleagues in research to have a conversation that brings together research culture and mental health as separate but connected ideas.
The culture in which researchers work can have profound effects on their mental health, and the mental health of researchers can influence how they operate at work, relate to colleagues and otherwise form part of that same culture. This is not necessarily a case of chicken and egg, but this simple statement highlights the reality that mental health and research culture are two elements of researcher wellbeing that co-exist and by necessity inform one another. This, in turn, lays a challenge at the doors of those directing policy within institutions and across the sector more broadly. In the mental health and research culture debate the voices of researchers themselves need to be heard and those working to improve research culture and mental health cannot afford to ignore the interconnections between these elements.
For University Mental Health Day 2022 the Centre for Research Staff Development warmly invites researchers and all involved in developing the researcher ecosystem to a panel discussion that takes the relationship between research culture and mental health as its focus. You can be part of a conversation about what research culture can do for the mental health of researchers. We will hear briefly from the following panel members before opening the floor to questions and contributions from colleagues.
Panellists include:
- Annie Irvine, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Centre for Society and Mental Health, King’s College London
- Tim Newton, Dean of Research Culture and Professor of Psychology as Applied to Dentistry, King's College London
- Sonya Towers, Research Culture and Communities Specialist, Wellcome Trust
- Clare Viney, Chief Executive Officer, The Careers Research and Advisory Centre
This panel will be held online from 16.00-17.30 on Thursday, 3rd March 2022.
You can register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrcuuoqzMtEtcwyj-Z_rWMS1UHZb1qU-MU.