The Mental Elf
The Mental Elf
Welcome to the Mental Elf podcast, which features interviews with leading experts in mental health: researchers, clinicians, practitioners and experts by experience. I will help you keep up to date with the latest reliable mental health research. Our podcasts are recorded at major mental health events and conferences, and explore a wide range of topics relevant to people who work in mental health and related fields. Check out the Mental Elf website for thousands of free blogs summarising the latest reliable mental health research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jul 9, 2026
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Episodes
Terrie Moffitt #IoPPNfestival 15.04.2021 22:23
Professor Terrie E. Moffitt, Professor of Social Development in the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King's College London. Synopsis: Repeated mental-health assessments in a birth cohort followed to age 45 reveal that mental disorder eventually affects virtually everyone. The predominant pattern among clinically significant cases is adolescent onset followed by a succession of...
Final reflections from #ImpactFrameworks 31.03.2021 32:25
#ImpactFrameworks conference organisers Mark Taylor, Jess Romo and Shaun Leamon discuss the conference highlights over the two days and lessons learnt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jenny Donovan 29.03.2021 21:52
Dr Jenny Donovan, CEO of the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) Presentation Title: Evidence for ChangeThe Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) was established to advance an evidence-based education system. What does that mean for educators and teachers? Presumably, it implies that there needs to be some sort of change: some adjustments to practice and some shift toward...
Yara Toenders - Inflammation and depression in young people 24.03.2021 23:52
Yara Toenders and Dr Lianne Schmaal from Orygen in Melbourne, Australia, talk about their Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on inflammation and depression in young people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Suicide Means Restriction 22.03.2021 1:04:05
Welcome to this podcast on suicide means restriction, brought to you by the Cochrane Common Mental Disorders group and the Mental Elf.*TRIGGER WARNING*This podcast is aimed at mental health researchers and policy makers. In it we discuss the ways that we can prevent suicide, restricting the means of people taking their own lives, and methods of suicide. Please do not listen to this discussion if y...
Ruth Levine 18.03.2021 16:38
Presentation Title: The Promise and Pitfalls of Co-creation In this talk, Ruth Levine, CEO of IDInsight, will highlight the ways in which sustained evidence uptake depends on openness to co-creation of research and evaluation questions and methods with members of the policy community, as well as with civil society. She will discuss the importance of breaking barriers to collaboration to ensure rel...
MQ Data Science 2020 18.03.2021 42:00
Professor Andrew McIntosh from the University of Edinburgh, Professor Ann John from Swansea University, Professor Dermot O'Reilly from Queen's University Belfast and Professor Robert Stewart from King's College London, talk about mental health data science in this podcast recorded shortly after the MQ Data Science meeting in December 2020. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...
Rinad Beidas 15.03.2021 26:22
Dr Rinad Beidas, University of PennsylvaniaPresentation Title: Harnessing implementation science to realize the promise of evidence based practice in mental health care. Implementation science, or the study of methods to improve the adoption, implementation, and sustainment of evidence-based practices, has grown exponentially in the past decade in response to growing concerns about the research to...
#MentalHealthResearchMatters - The Funder’s Perspective: BBSRC 26.02.2021 19:07
How can understanding and technologies from the basic biosciences contribute to the wider field of mental health research? What cross-disciplinary interface areas involving biosciences open up areas for innovative translational research? And what are some of the barriers and enablers to working across disciplines involving the basic biosciences? In this #MentalHealthResearchMatters podcast Dr Sadh...
Angela Tilby - Thought for the Day, 23rd Feb 2021 23.02.2021 2:59
Angela Tilby, Canon Emeritus of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford talks about mental health and the Mental Elf. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Importance of Libraries in Impact Assessment 22.02.2021 35:28
Interviewer Mark Taylor (NIHR)Danny Kingsley (Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science)Helen Bingham (Health Education England) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The History of the International School of Research Impact Assessment 22.02.2021 31:42
Interviewer Mark Taylor (NIHR)Jonathan Grant (Kings College London)Paula Adam (AQuAS)Kathryn Graham (Alberta Innovates) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Impact of Global Health Research 22.02.2021 38:42
Interviewer Saumu Lwembe (NIHR)Imelda Bates (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine)Katherine Wright (Nuffield Council on Bioethics)David Phipps (York University, Canada) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Impact of PPIE and PPIE in Impact 22.02.2021 44:39
Interviewer Chris Carrigan (HDR-UK Rutherford Fellow, Patients and Data at Leeds Institute for Data Analytics)Mark Taylor (NIHR)Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Accountability - Kathryn Graham 11.02.2021 24:07
Kathryn Graham, Executive Director of Performance Management and Evaluation at Alberta Innovates, talks about accountability to Sana Zakaria from the National Institute of Health Research. This is one in a series of Impact Lenses Podcasts from the Impact Frameworks and Cultural Change conference, taking place online on 25-26 February 2021: https://impactframeworks.info/Kathryn Graham LinkedIn: htt...
Analysis - Thomas Alslev Christensen 11.02.2021 16:52
Thomas Alslev Christensen, Senior Vice President at the Novo Nordisk Foundation, talks about analysis with Sana Zakaria from the National Institute of Health Research. This is one in a series of Impact Lenses Podcasts from the Impact Frameworks and Cultural Change conference, taking place online on 25-26 February 2021: https://impactframeworks.info/Thomas Alslev Christensen LinkedIn: https://www.l...
Advocacy - Maeva May, British Heart Foundation 11.02.2021 17:14
Maeva May, Head of Policy at the British Heart Foundation, talks about advocacy to Sana Zakaria from the National Institute of Health Research. This is one in a series of Impact Lenses Podcasts from the Impact Frameworks and Cultural Change conference, taking place online on 25-26 February 2021: https://impactframeworks.info/Maeva May Twitter: https://twitter.com/may_maevaBritish Heart Foundation:...
Allocation - Catriona Firth, UKRI 11.02.2021 16:08
Catriona Firth, Associate Director for Research Environment at Research England, talks about allocation with Sana Zakaria from the National Institute for Health Research. This is one in a series of Impact Lenses Podcasts from the Impact Frameworks and Cultural Change conference, taking place online on 25-26 February 2021: https://impactframeworks.info/Catriona Firth Twitter: https://twitter.com/fi...
Marc Bennett - Psychological decentering 17.12.2020 31:37
Dr Marc Bennett from the University of Cambridge talks about his Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on psychological decentering as a core component in the treatment and prevention of youth anxiety and depression. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Eiluned Pearce - Reducing loneliness #ActiveIngredientsMH 11.12.2020 29:38
Ellie Pearce shares her recent Wellcome Trust funded #ActiveIngredientsMH review, which looked into reducing loneliness as a potential active ingredient in both alleviating and preventing anxiety and depression in young people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kathrin Cohen Kadosh - Probiotics, prebiotics and better gut microbiome 07.12.2020 23:42
Dr Kathrin Cohen Kadosh from the University of Surrey, talks about her Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on psychobiotics and better gut microbiome as a way of preventing and treating youth anxiety. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kanika Malik - Behavioural Activation 02.12.2020 20:39
Kanika Malik from Sangath in India talks about her Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on behavioural activation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Karolin Krause and Robyn Mildon - Problem solving 01.12.2020 29:20
Dr Karolin Krause from University College London and Dr Robyn Mildon, Executive Director of the Centre for Evidence and Implementation in Australia, talk about their Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients projects on problem solving in young people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sarah Egan - Self-compassion for the prevention and treatment of anxiety and depression 24.11.2020 15:39
Dr Sarah Egan, Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, talks about her Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on self-compassion for the prevention and treatment of anxiety and depression in young people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Catherine Harmer - Antidepressants for young people with depression and anxiety 23.11.2020 32:07
Prof Catherine Harmer and Dr Susannah Murphy from the University of Oxford talk about their Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on antidepressants for young people with depression and anxiety. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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