Mary Seacole Research Centre areas of expertise
Our vision:
- Develop an exciting interdisciplinary research community that transforms mental health and wellbeing nationally and internationally.
- Place research excellence and innovation at the heart of our activities
- Focus on research that is collaborative and understands the diverse needs of our stakeholders
- Be a recognised leader in research for transformative services in diversity in health and social care.
- Co-produce and co-create knowledge with users, communities and stakeholders, and to contribute to the advancement of the growing discipline of health humanities
- Our research is aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals to contribute to promoting global health and wellbeing
Our research areas and expertise:
- Mental health and resilience
- Migration, culture and mental health
- Diversity, ethnicity and mental health inequalities
- Global mental health
- Arts and mental health
- Inclusive and participatory research methodology
- Health humanities
- Public mental health
- Intellectual disability and mental health
- Psychosocial support models
Collaborative work with health and social care agencies and community groups is a priority, to ensure active dissemination and implementation of research findings in practice. Researchers at the MSRC are active in international networks to promote equality in health and care.
a collaborative research centre with ¹Ï×ÓTV, University of Leicester and Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. We are also collaborating with the newly established Stephen Lawrence Research Centre with respect to race and ethnicity research.
We adhere to ¹Ï×ÓTV’s Freedom Charter and place equality and diversity as the key pillar of all our research and activities.
Professor in Mental Health/ Director of the Mary Seacole Research Centre (MSRC)
Co-Director Leicester Centre for Mental Health Research
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Room 3.26 Edith Murphy House
¹Ï×ÓTV
Leicester LE1 9BH
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0)116 2013831.
E: rraghavan@dmu.ac.uk
Twitter: @RaghuRaghavan1