Amarno Inai and Androulla Harris: Promoting young Black men's mental health
Thea Joshi hears from Amarno Inai and Androulla Harris about their recent work on Shifting the Dial, evaluating a Birmingham-based project to promote young Black men’s mental health. In light of the r...
30 Mar 202231min
Poppy Jaman OBE: Harnessing power to change the system
Thea Joshi chats with Poppy Jaman OBE, CEO of the City Mental Health Alliance, founder of Mental Health First Aid England and trustee at Centre for Mental Health. Reflecting on her own lived experienc...
22 Feb 202235min
Nick O'Shea and Charlotte Rainer: Investing in children's mental health
For too long, children's mental health has been underfunded. Children face a postcode lottery when it comes to mental health care, despite the clear moral and economic benefits of early intervention. ...
26 Jan 202225min
Sarah Hughes: Making change happen in 2021
Sarah Hughes, the Centre's chief executive, joins Thea to look back at 2021 and the impact our work has been having through these extremely challenging times. From supporting the NHS to get vaccines t...
20 Des 202137min
Shuranjeet Singh: Reshaping approaches to mental health in Punjabi communities
Shuranjeet Singh, founder of Taraki, joins Thea to talk about how his organisation is working with Punjabi communities to reshape approaches to mental health. We discuss what led him to create the org...
24 Nov 202132min
Alex Augustine: Bringing a unique perspective to peer research
This episode, we hear from Alex Augustine, one of the Centre’s peer researchers, on what genuine peer involvement and coproduction should look like. He shares his own journey to working for the Centre...
28 Okt 202128min
Amy Pollard: Field notes on bipolar and the Enlightenment
Dr Amy Pollard joins Thea Joshi to talk about her new role as the Centre's writer in residence, explaining how she has drawn on painful lived experience to distil ideas which can be shared with others...
28 Sep 202133min
