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Scottish Mental Health Research Network Launch Event, 26th November 2009

Scottish Mental Health Research Network Launch Event, 26th November 2009. Psychiatric Research in the NHS Prof. John Eagles Royal Cornhill Hospital Aberdeen. Psychiatric Research in the NHS. Who should be doing research? Organisation / coordination of psychiatric research.

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Scottish Mental Health Research Network Launch Event, 26th November 2009

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  1. Scottish Mental Health Research Network Launch Event, 26th November 2009 Psychiatric Research in the NHS Prof. John Eagles Royal Cornhill Hospital Aberdeen

  2. Psychiatric Research in the NHS • Who should be doing research? • Organisation / coordination of psychiatric research

  3. Research in the NHS: my background • Psychiatric training in Edinburgh, lecturer in Mental Health in Aberdeen, consultant general adult psychiatrist at Royal Cornhill Hospital since 1985 • Since 1991, 2 sessions for research / research supervision per week • Eclectic topics / butterfly researcher / adult ADD • Published papers with 42 different doctors in training

  4. Coordinating Psychiatric Research in Scotland Distant Ancestors of SMHRN • 1998, with Robin McCreadie, Royal College of Psychiatrists Scottish Division Research Advisory Group (S-DRAG) • Clinical research priorities in psychiatry, role of the College in research, coordinate national research projects • Comorbidity substance misuse and schizophrenia, BJ Psych 2002, 2003 • Scottish Psychiatric Academic Research Collaboration (SPARC), 2001 • North Scotland, one funded study on lithium • Lacked national representation / ownership, infrastructure, resources

  5. Who should do psychiatric research? Elitism versus Egalitarianism • Psychiatric academics with higher degrees only • Anyone connected to mental health services • What makes a good researcher?

  6. What makes a good researcher? • What makes a good cricketer? • Ability • Technique • Temperament • Application

  7. Why has Monty never won a Major? Ability – Excellent Application - Excellent

  8. Why has Monty never won a Major? Technique – does he overswing?

  9. Why has Monty never won a Major? Temperament

  10. What is the ideal researcher’s ATTA? • Ability – creative, intelligent, focussed thinker • Technique – understands research methods, statistics etc. • Temperament – mix of flair, patience, obsessionality, wish for fame, autistic traits • Application – willing to do the hard yards, see it through to the end

  11. Who should do research? • Anyone can do research, we all have a book in us • Maybe we all have an idea for a book, but we couldn’t write it • The best researchers (who are a rare breed) should be the researchers • Not necessarily all academics

  12. The way ahead for NHS research? • NHS / academic collaboration • Active involvement of (tightly selected) NHS researchers • Note constraints of time and resources • Mechanisms for ideas from the workforce to be taken forward or discarded • SMHRN can hopefully play a major role in helping ideas to become collaborative academic / NHS research projects

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