Research at CPFT

📣 Join @ 12.30pm 🕧 tomorrow to meet @cpft-nhs.bsky.social consultant psychiatrist Dr Alje Van Hoorn working on our Cavell Centre #Recovery Ward.
🔎 Explore the #Bayesian brain hypothesis and how it applies to emotions, psychopathology and #MentalHealth care:
➡️ www.intranet.cpft.nhs.uk/events/event...

⚠️ One week left! Don't miss the deadline to apply to co-lead
@arceastofengland.bsky.social and use your leadership expertise in #research, health and social care to improve services and support for people in our region.
🆕 The next phase of the ARC needs you!
⏰ Apply by Monday 9 February 👇

📣 Join Dr Jonathan Goodman tomorrow @ 12.30pm 🕧 to learn how evolutionary theory can help us understand how people learn to trust each other and the influence of #genetics on human cognition & intelligence.
Meet at the Herchel Smith Building or join online:
➡️ www.intranet.cpft.nhs.uk/events/event...

📣 Colleagues @cpft-nhs.bsky.social can apply for professional development funding and support from @nihr.bsky.social to be #NIHR20 #Research Leaders!
Great opportunity for recognition and reward if you're working in the #NHS on research to shape future healthcare.
✍️ Apply by Wednesday 18 March: 👇

📣 Don't miss tomorrow's talk @ 12.30pm 🕧 with Dr Robert Dudas @cpft-nhs.bsky.social to find out how to put individual patient values back into #psychiatry to improve #MentalHealth treatments, care & recovery.
🔎 Explore evidence for #ValuesBasedPractice #VBP
➡️ www.intranet.cpft.nhs.uk/events/event...

BBC Radio Cambridgeshire - Chris Mann, Sue Dougan sits in (19/01/2026) Sue discusses the day's news, and brings you the Rewind.

📶 Catch CPFT Research & Development Director Dr Ben Underwood talking about blood tests for #dementia and latest #research news on #BBC Cambs (@ around 45 mins) 🔽
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
We're working on the READ-OUT study with
@dementiasplatform.bsky.social
➡️ www.cpft.nhs.uk/research-new...

📣 Everyone 16+ is invited to help us find the genetic links to #anxiety and #depression!
UK @gladstudy.bsky.social needs people with no history of #MentalHealth conditions as well as those who have, to compare.
Take part with @cpft-nhs.bsky.social and help others for #BlueMonday: ➡️ gladstudy.org.uk

NHS InSites Bite-size training Live events Get ready for some awesome live sessions where we'll be diving into innovative ideas and strategies to shake things up in the healthcare ind

📣 Join 3 exclusive live #innovation sessions this month for #NHS staff, covering the essentials to get innovating! For anyone starting their journey to improve health care and services with new technology. #NHSInSites
⚡️ Register now for 20 & 22 January next week ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/nhs-insite...

📣 Two exciting roles with our @arceastofengland.bsky.social team to apply for by Monday 9 February!
If you want to develop #research capacity in the #EastofEngland, or co-lead our ARC with your research expertise and vision to drive impact and benefit for our communities - then consider applying! 👇

📣 We're working with @angliaruskin.bsky.social to test #VirtualReality therapy for #SeasonalAffectiveDisorder!
Anyone 18+ affected by #SAD / winter #depression is invited to take part and lift your mood.
📱 Scan the QR code or click to read more + sign up:
➡️ aruspsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

📣 Colleagues @cpft-nhs.bsky.social are invited to a free half-day event online to learn about the @nihr.bsky.social Associate Principal Investigator Scheme and explore research career & development opportunities.
🗓️ Join @ 1pm on Thursday 22 January, register here 👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/forging-yo...

Great to see @cpft-nhs.bsky.social #MentalHealth #research lead & former consultant #ClinicalPsychologist Dr Ayla Humphrey 🌟 honoured with an MBE for services to young people with acquired brain injuries. Ayla co-founded our CCPNR service.
Read more from @cam.ac.uk: ➡️ bit.ly/45p8Miz
#NewYearHonours

YouTube video by CPFT Research ARC East of England Fellowship: Technology enabled care

⚠️ Just two days left to apply for an @arceastofengland.bsky.social Fellowship by 12pm Wednesday!
🔽 Giles' #SocialCare project is helping people with #dementia.
💬 Contact the ARC team ASAP to find a supervisor & discuss your #research idea:➡️ arc-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/training-dev...
youtu.be/krWJz1UNrbc?...

⏰ Two weeks to apply for the @arceastofengland.bsky.social
Fellowship!
Consider your project over the festive break and find a supervisor to discuss how to improve #NHS services & care with your #research idea.
⚠️ Complete your application by 12pm on 7 January:
➡️ arc-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/training-dev...

🌟 Wishing everyone a peaceful & happy festive season + all the best for the New Year! 🌟
Thanks for all your support this year to set up a new #research base in Peterborough, and deliver 110 studies with 1075 people taking part in #ResearchWithCare.
You help us make a difference for better health! 💙

🎉 Congratulations to CPFT #psychiatrists Dr Annabel Price, Dr @muzafferkaser.bsky.social & Dr Julius Essem on your @rcpsych.bsky.social Fellowships awarded this year!
🌟 Well deserved recognition honouring outstanding contributions to #MentalHealth care & #research:
➡️ www.cpft.nhs.uk/research-new...

YouTube video by CPFT Research Clinical Nurse Specialist Fellowship case study

🔎 Find out how @cpft-nhs.bsky.social Clinical Nurse Specialist Lizzie is improving care and treatment for women experiencing #psychosis in #menopause, for her Fellowship project with @arceastofengland.bsky.social.
💙 Working with #CPFTCAMEO to make a difference with #research: 🔽
youtu.be/VUnyYJRMBps

📣 We're on a mission to improve early intervention, treatment and prevention of #psychosis!
#MentalHealth researchers @cpft-nhs.bsky.social are looking for people aged 16-65 with NO history of psychosis to join our study (to compare with people who have).
Contact us: RandD@cpft.nhs.uk / 01223 219753

📣 Share your views on a new UK clinical trial to test treatments for vascular #dementia!
Anyone with lived experience of dementia is invited to help researchers shape #research studies and improve treatments to beat all types of dementia.
Find out more and have your say online at:
➡️ popped.org.uk

📣 Health professionals delivering psychological therapies @cpft-nhs.bsky.social are invited to take part in the KOLABO study to help guide global #CBT practice! 🌍
Share your knowledge and insights in this short survey (takes 5-10 minutes) to shape a diverse therapy network:
➡️ bit.ly/KOLABO_Westa...

📣 New UK data platform led by @maryellenlynall.bsky.social with @ebi.embl.org will help develop targeted #MentalHealth treatments.
The Open Psychiatry Project will make mental health data more accessible and empower everyone to learn about conditions & improve care:
➡️ www.cpft.nhs.uk/research-new...

⚠️ Final week to apply for the #NHS Clinical Entrepreneur scheme by 4pm 🕓 on Friday!
@cpft-nhs.bsky.social staff with great ideas 💡 to #ImproveCPFT #NHS care & services can realise them with this #innovation support scheme.
Don't miss out, start your clinical entrepreneur career today! 🚀 nhscep.com

⏰ Two weeks to apply for CPFT #Research funding by Friday 5 December
If you want to build research capacity and skills in your team to deliver health studies to #ImproveCPFT then this fund could support you.
✅ Check the full guidance and how to apply here:
➡️ www.intranet.cpft.nhs.uk/apply-for-re...

🤞🤩 Good luck to @cpft-nhs.bsky.social teams at the @hsj.co.uk Awards tonight!
Our #StaffMentalHealthService & #MusicTherapy service were selected for outstanding work in two categories.
Well done to all finalists! 🌟
Have a great evening celebrating #NHS excellence 🥳
➡️ www.cpft.nhs.uk/research-new...

📣 On in an hour! Join Dr Yuya Mizuno at 12.30pm 🕧 to learn about the role that immune cells in the brain (microglia) play in psychotic illnesses.
🔎 Find out if #natalizumab could be a suitable new targeted therapy to help people with #schizophrenia:
➡️ www.intranet.cpft.nhs.uk/events/event...

👋 Meet our team behind the Cambridge Psychedelic Research Group led by Lili Galindo @cpft-nhs.bsky.social + find out how promising psychedelic-assisted therapies could enable recovery from treatment-resistant #MentalHealth conditions in this @cam.ac.uk headline story:
➡️ www.cam.ac.uk/stories/your...

📣 Researchers @cpft-nhs.bsky.social @arceastofengland.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk explored how to help clinicians improve #autism assessments.
🔎 Combining clinical tools with personal accounts from individuals + families ensures people benefit more from clinical review:
➡️ www.cpft.nhs.uk/research-new...

📢 Calling @cpft-nhs.bsky.social psychologists to join our #Research team!
We're offering a 1 year, part-time internal secondment for a #psychologist to bring more research opportunities to people in our psychological services and help colleagues grow their skills:
➡️ www.cpft.nhs.uk/latest-vacan...

Mental health experts push for better understanding of mid-life psychosis at EU event Mental health and lived experience experts from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT)'s CAMEO early intervention service spoke…

Thanks @cambstimes.bsky.social for helping our #CPFTCAMEO team raise awareness of #psychosis in #Menopause and local #research with @cpft-nhs.bsky.social & @arceastofengland.bsky.social to improve #MentalHealth care and treatments for women at this life stage: ⬇️
www.cambstimes.co.uk/news/2559448...

Join Victoria Bird @universityofessex.bsky.social today @ 12.30pm 🕧 to explore how a resource-oriented approach can improve #MentalHealth care.
🔎 Find how this approach works with individuals, families & communities to reduce distress & promote wellbeing:
➡️ www.intranet.cpft.nhs.uk/events/event...