RESEARCHER MENTAL HEALTH
Our new project on researcher mental health, funded by the UKRI’s QR enhancing research culture fund, aims to understand how researchers’ working on emotionally demanding topics in academic, industry and third sector settings can be supported to ensure that their mental health is safeguarded. This vital work will enable those researching emotionally demanding topics to thrive.
On this page, you can find a summary of our progress!
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Below you can find a link to our blog post where we introduce the project and the people and organisations who are a part of it.
Where did we begin?
Introducing the Advancing Safe Research for Researchers' Mental Health Project
Tap on the picture to learn about the new researcher mental health project.
Where are we now?
To date, 26 researchers with experience in conducting emotionally demanding research (EDR) have participated in our research. These experts represented academic and non-academic contexts and who helped us to identify best practices to promote researchers’ mental health in EDR.
Including experts in the study aided a collaborative and iterative process to generate new ideas relevant to those conducting this type of research. To further enhance the rigour, we conducted member reflections and discussed ideas with critical friends.
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Our findings from this study have now been published!
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Best practices for supporting researchers’ mental health in emotionally demanding research across academic and non-academic contexts
Tap on the picture to learn about our recent publication and learn more about best practices.
Best practices include:
Best practices should be:
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The need for a psychologically informed research culture
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Actions and principles in the immediate research environment
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Researcher boundaries with the research, others, and oneself
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Tailored
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Iterative & flexible
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Collaborative
what's next?
We are excited to begin the next phase of our project starting January 2025!
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With additional funding from the QR enhancing research culture fund we are exploring ways to implement best practices into the daily lives of researchers.
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Stay tuned for more information!
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Project Partners and collaborators
