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Mental health in context: research, policy and practice
This event aims to bring together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to collaboratively address mental health throughout the life course.
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Mental wellbeing has become a major focus for public policy over the past 20 years and remains a top priority for the UK’s health system. This interdisciplinary hybrid conference aims to explore mental health in context and evidence intersections and inequalities across different groups and backgrounds.
Mental health is not just the responsibility of health professionals. It’s a priority for those working in social care, education, welfare, and justice. This event brings together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from these sectors to discuss how we can better address mental health across all stages of life.
There will be a reception for all attendees from 17:25 to 19:00.
Speaker
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Joanne McLeanCo-Director of the Centre for Evaluation National Centre for Social Research
Joanne is co-Director of the Centre for Evaluation at NatCen, providing leadership on a broad range of evaluation approaches, focusing on theory-based evaluation. She is an experienced mixed-methods researcher with two decades of creating and using research-based knowledge to support public policy and practice development.
She is an accomplished leader of major research studies including quantitative and qualitative primary research, complex national programme evaluations, systematic reviews, national surveys, the Census and pilot development programmes for local providers. Joanne has wide-ranging topic expertise throughout the public health and wellbeing agenda, across practice and policy areas and the age-span and specialises in research utilisation in national public policy making. She is a skilled innovator and collaborator leading partnerships and consortia with a range of academic, statutory and voluntary sector organisations. Joanne is motivated by a passion to create knowledge through research that empowers people to call for, direct and create positive impact.
