What’s the project?
This opportunity forms part of the Circadian Mental Health Network. This three-year project will bring together a new network of experts (researchers, clinicians, service-users and young people) on sleep, circadian rhythms and mental health.
The four core areas of activity for the network are:
- Setting the research agenda for mental health and circadian science; by identifying research priorities that feel most important to experts in this area, including those with lived experience.
- Setting standards for data collection, data curation and data sharing; by comparing circadian rhythm sleep data in humans to animal data and standardise how this data is collected, stored and processed.
- Supporting researchers at the early stages of their careers working within mental health and circadian science by providing training and opportunities.
- Bringing together people to write new research funding applications; by launching new teams to collaborate and write new project proposals with.
Find out more
We are discovering more and more about the importance of the relationships between mental health, sleep and the body clock through research. We need your help to find out more.
We want to hear what questions you would like answered concerning mental health, sleep and the body clock. Especially from anyone who has experience of mental health issues, experience of a disrupted body clock or sleep, and from anyone who supports individuals with these experiences (including family, friends, clinicians, clinical support staff). We want to know what matters most to people experiencing issues related to mental health, sleep and the body clock.
We will then share these priorities with everyone, so future research can focus on what is important.
In 2024, the Circadian Mental Health Network asked “What do you want to know about mental health, sleep and the body clock?”. We were inundated with questions from people with lived experience, clinicians, carers and members of the public. Now, we need help to find out which of these questions are the most important for research to answer.
The survey will be open until 17th February 2025.
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