Currently, along with Charlie Brooker and Coral Sirdifield, Dina is also working on updating the Systematic Review of Prison Mental Health and Services (Brooker, et al., 2002).
Steven Hutchinson - Assertive Outreach Nurse and PHD Student (Lincoln).
Kieran Fahy - Kieran Fahy Service Manger and Project Lead Manchester Early Intervention Services - Kieran's thesis is a user outcome focused evaluation of one of the first wave of Early Intervention in Psychosis teams in the UK. It follows on from work by Brooker et al, (2000) that suggested young people who were receiving support from a psychosis service without a youth focus were doing less well than those with established illnesses. It is hoped that this work will show in some detail what kind of outcomes are experienced by service users in a team that is not part of a large research trail.
Kieran is also the current co-ordinator of the First Episode
Research Network, (FERN). The principle investigator is
Professor Max Birchwood from the University of Birmingham who
has a long track record of being a leading figure in Early
Intervention research and development.
www.bham.ac.uk Lincoln
University is now home to FERN
www.fernonline.org.
Professor Charles Brooker is the lead from Lincoln University
and is part of the projects academic reference group as well as
providing day to day supervision and advice to the project team
This national project is an evaluation of over thirty early
intervention teams in England using routine measures and a state
of the art web based data base developed in conjunction with
Tribal Technologies.
www.tribalgroup.co.uk FERN aims to provide the largest data
base yet devised to look at the outcome for young people in the
new wave of early intervention teams in England. Further details
about FERN can be obtained through the link above or through
Emily Earle (FERN R.A)
emily.earle@rdash.nhs.uk.
FERN is also supported by Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust, (RDASH) www.rdash.nhs.uk.
Coral Sirdifield - Coral's thesis is based on a RfPB funded project and will investigate the prevalence of mental health disorder, substance misuse and patterns of service access amongst offenders on probation in Lincolnshire. Coral also works as a Research Assistant at the University.