Penny East: Why we need mental health social workers

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 Mars 202231min

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

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, 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 Dec 202137min

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

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

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

Dr Graham Durcan, our Associate Director of Research and Evaluation, speaks to Thea Joshi about mental health in prisons. The Centre has done decades of research in this area but, despite some good pr...

29 Juni 202129min