About Us

Our work

This web-site describes the work of the Recovery Research Team at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) in Nottingham. The IMH is a partnership between the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. You may know some of the work the Recovery Research Team have led, such as:

• forming the Recovery Research Network of 900 people from 50 countries with an interest in researching recovery
• organising the Refocus on Recovery conferences, the world’s largest ongoing series of scientific conferences on recovery
• creating the CHIME Framework identifying Connectedness, Hope, Identity, Meaning and Empowerment as key recovery processes
• developing the REFOCUS intervention for mental health teams to increase their skills in supporting recovery
• developing the Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis intervention to improve wellbeing in people living with psychosis
• running the RECOLLECT Study on Recovery Colleges

We also collaborate widely, on projects such as:

• the Understanding Psychosis publication
• the CEDAR study of clinical decision-making across Europe
• the European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation (ENMESH)
• developing the Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN), the most widely used health and social needs assessment internationally

To learn more about the Recovery Research Team, see here

Mike Slade

The Recovery Research Team is led by Mike Slade. He is Professor of Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion at the University of Nottingham, based in the School of Health Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, and working at the Institute of Mental Health. His post is jointly funded with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Until 2015 he was Professor of Health Services Research at King’s College London and a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Some of the research reported here was conducted by his team at King’s College London. For more information about Mike Slade, visit his staff profile or his listings on Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus or SciProfiles.

Recovery Research Team

Collaborators

The team work with a range of organisations, because ‘if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together’. In the UK our collaborators include:

• Centre for Mental Health
• ImROC
• Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
• Making Waves
• Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• QMUL
• University of Nottingham

We also work with organisations in many other countries, including:

• Australia (Monash University; Mind Australia)
• Bulgaria (National Center of Public Health and Analyses)
• Canada (McGill University; St Michael’s Hospital)
• Denmark (Copenhagen University; Mental Health Centre Copenhagen)
• Germany (Hamburg University; Ulm University)
• Ghana (CBM International)
• Hong Kong (Hong Kong University)
• India (Quality Rights Gujarat)
• Ireland (Mayo Recovery College)
• Israel (Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Haifa University)
• Italy (Consortium Oscar Romero)
• Netherlands (Phrenos; VU University Amsterdam)
• Norway (University College of Southeast Norway; Norwegian Resource Centre for Community Mental Health)
• Portugal (Lisbon Institute for Global Mental Health)
• Slovenia (University of Ljubljana)
• Tanzania (Ifakara Health Institute)
• Uganda (Butabika National Referral Hospital; Heartsounds Recovery College)
• USA (Boston University; Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Centre; University of Massachusetts; Yale University)

And we work with international organisation, such as

• Mental Health Europe
• EUFAMI
• Validity
• World Health Organization

Getting references for our publications

There are three ways you can access the references of publications from the Recovery Research Team:

1. We actively maintain our website researchintorecovery.com. We put references for all our papers on our News page, where you can filter by study to see all news from a particular study. News postings about all our papers are listed here, books here, and free downloads here. Additionally, for many of our larger studies we maintain a narrative about findings from the study including all study publications, e.g. the summary of findings for NEON is here.
2. Google Scholar contains a list of all publications by individual researchers. For example, the Google Scholar page for Mike Slade is here.
3. Most but not all members of the Recovery Research Team are in the School of Health Sciences, and you can search for their staff page including their publications here. For example, the staff page for Mike Slade is here.

Accessing the full text of our publications

There are several ways you can access the full text of our publications:

1. We publish many of our papers as open access articles, i.e. free to download directly from the journal. To get to the journal you can follow the ‘Available here’ link from the News post for the paper – use the filters at the top of the News page to find papers from a specific study.
2. PubMed and Europe PMC often contain full text versions of papers – search for the paper by title.
3. The Nottingham Research Repository is the open access full text archive for University of Nottingham research, in which you can search for the title of articles.
4. The above repository is indexed by search engines, so you can just e.g. Google the title of a specific paper (prefaced by ‘Nottingham Repository’ is best).
5. Our free-to-download reports are here.
6. If none of the above approaches work you can contact us here.