Centre members are also involved in other research groups and centres:
SCLEPH:
Scottish Centre for Policing & Public Health (SCLEPH) is the only centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health education, practice and research in Europe, and one of two such centres in the world. SCLEPH is an international academic and practice collaboration with key external stakeholders including Police Scotland, people and communities with experience of the police/health intersect, The Mental Health Foundation Scotland, the Global Law Enforcement & Public Health Association (GLEPHA), and the Centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health (CLEPH, Melbourne, Australia) amongst others. SCLEPH has its academic base within the School of Health & Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University and has strong links with the Scottish Institute of Policing Research (SIPR).
Professor Nadine Dougall and Associate Professor Inga Heyman are Co-Directors of SCLEPH.
ERICCA:
Edinburgh Research and Innovation Centre for Complex and Acute mental health problems (ERICCA) is a joint NHS Lothian and Edinburgh Napier initiative. ERICCA members organise their research activity around psychological therapy service developments, aiming to improve our understanding of the psychosocial causes and maintaining factors in severe mental health problems. ERICCA is characterised by an overarching commitment to involving patients, carers, partner agencies and NHS clinicians closely in the design and implementation of novel psychological approaches to care, reflected in high quality psychological research, all of which will be focused on understanding and supporting recovery from severe and complex mental health problems. As a self-sustaining Centre of Excellence, ERICCA aims to raise the profile of clinical psychological research in Scotland, bringing in significant funding, and attracting the best and brightest researchers and clinicians to work in Edinburgh.
Professors Paul Hutton and Thanos Karatzias are Associate Directors of ERICCA.
Knowledge to Action Research Group in Learning Disability:
The Knowledge to Action Research Group in Learning Disability (KAR-LD) is grounded in knowledge translation principles and committed to co-creating and co-producing high-quality evidence-based knowledge. The interdisciplinary research group consists of researchers, health and social care practitioners and key stakeholders, such as people with learning disabilities, carers, disability organizations. KAR-LD is committed to generating knowledge that is directly influenced by people with learning disabilities to ensure that knowledge being created and disseminated is reflective of the opinions/needs of the disability community. KAR-LD adopts an inclusive research approach, where the research agenda is driven by the needs of people with learning disabilities and key stakeholders, thus, ensuring that the research being conducted will have real world impact. The inclusive research approach of the KAR-LD advocates for people with learning disabilities to be meaningfully involved in research to ensure their voices are being represented in the evidence-based research that will ultimately inform policy and practice.
For more information, please contact Dr Natasha Spassiani