Funded projects

SMART Lab is hosted within the Sir Henry Wellcome Building for Mood Disorders Research and at the Penryn Campus, Cornwall. SMART Lab closely collaborates with CEDAR on service delivery, internationalisation, impact, and implementation.

Projects

NurtureU University Mental Health Study

NurtureU is a 4-year £4million flagship MRC/AHRC/ESRC funded grant within the Adolescence, Mental Health and Developing Minds scheme focused on understanding and improving university student mental health. The project involves the Universities of Exeter, Oxford, Southampton, Newcastle, Cardiff, and King’s College London.

Wellcome Trust Grant

We have been funded by the Wellcome Trust for a large-scale six-year programme to investigate the active ingredients of CBT to reduce worry and rumination, as part of their recent Mental Health call on Looking Backwards to Move Forwards. This research will enable us to further enhance interventions for these transdiagnostic processes and thereby improve prevention and treatment across mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and psychosis.

RuME Change Trial

An ongoing US NIMH funded trial (in collaboration with the University of Utah and Ohio State University) is examining whether RFCBT is effective at preventing relapse into depression for adolescents with a history of depression (the RuMeChange trial).

Mood Disorders stream of the NIHR Mental Health Mission

The Mental Health Mission (MHM) has been launched with £42m of government funding. The MHM will work to increase the amount of mental health research being conducted in the UK by providing training and developing better systems to support industry-led and NHS-led research and investment. The project will also focus on key areas of mental illness that have unmet patient need or carry a high burden – this funding focuses on the development and extension of research clinics and innovative treatments for depression.

ECoWeB (Emotional Competence and Wellbeing in Young People)

This Horizon2020 grant (Professor Watkins, lead applicant) sought to investigate emotions and the role of emotional competence skills in the maintenance of well-being and tested whether a scalable self-help mental health app can promote well-being and prevent poor mental health in young people across UK, Germany, Spain and Belgium. This study has now completed and the study results have been submitted for publication.