Professor Ian Baguley
ibaguley@lincoln.ac.uk  

Staff in the Mental Health Research Centre (MHRC) commission and undertake research into mental health which involves evaluation of policy, implementation and how research feeds into clinical practice.

The team has acknowledged international expertise across a range of mental health research strands, including women and mental health, victims of violence and abuse, criminal justice and health policy and mental heath workforce research and development.

The centre works in partnership with the Department of Health and the Home Office and also works closely within the university with the Workforce Innovation and Regulation Research Centre.

Research activities at the centre at a national level include evaluation of personality disorder, women’s mental health issues (including domestic violence and abuse), evaluation of prison mental health services, child sexual abuse, pornography and sexual exploitation, evaluation of health trainers in prisons and new ways of working for social workers and psychiatrists.

The MHRC provides a critical mass of expert and emerging researchers for mental health in an area which has hitherto been poorly served in terms of research funding and outputs.