Top posts of 2023 on the IoMH blog

We published 22 posts over the course of 2023 – a record for the IoMH blog! Here is the most popular content posted in the past year.

#1: This guest blog marking University Mental Health Day is our top post from 2023. Lucy Foulkes of the University of Oxford looks at the concept of awareness days or weeks and asks whether we are doing enough to measure their outcomes. Read post >

#2. A PhD scholarship may last just a few years, but today’s scholar could become tomorrow’s supervisor as Jen Dykxhoorn from UCL’s Division of Psychiatry wrote in February, as a prestigious Mental Health Research UK scholarship opened for applications. Read post >

#3 Research from UCL’s Marie Curie Palliative Care Department shows that people with SPMI want to make their own choice about end-of-life care – just like anyone else. Nivedita Ashok describes the findings. Read post >

#4 The discoveries and positive impacts of academic research can give researchers great job satisfaction but the role also brings stresses that pose a risk to their mental health, write Helen Nicholls, Jo Billings and Danielle Lamb. Read Post >

#5 Recent UCL research finds that lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults report higher rates of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts than their heterosexual peers. In this blog Garrett Kidd describes how the study came about and its significance. Read post >

…and the rest of the top 10

6. IoMH Conference 2023 – a PhD student’s report – Jennifer Fielder
7. Mental Health is a human right – a workplace perspective – Sally Belcher
8. Children’s Mental Health and the Permacrisis – Charlotte Burdge and Tamsin Ford
9. University Mental Health Charter Award – how was it for you? Denise Long, Umair Mehmood and Tony David
10. Connecting with others through the power of music – Naaheed Mukadam

Thank you to all our contributors in 2023. If you have an idea for a blogpost about mental health research or clinical practice and would like to contribute to the IoMH blog – do get in touch!