By Kathy Adcock, 2024
Mental health
About this theme
This theme covers topics relating to community-based approaches to mental health. Many Fellows over the years have undertaken projects in this area including as part of our three-year programme developed in partnership with the Mental Health Foundation which ran in 2016-2018. Partnership stories
Dr Erica McInnis (CF 2016) delivered a talk at TEDxTrafford, challenging dominant Western psychological frameworks and calling for a shift towards African-centred psychology rooted in culture, collective identity, spirituality, and lived experience.
By Erica McInnis, 2026
Through his Churchill Fellowship, Charlie Samuda explored how schools in the USA, Canada, and South Korea are responding to the adolescent mental health crisis. Visiting over 30 organisations and schools, he examined how independent guidance, curriculum design, counselling, and safety systems can help schools support students more effectively. He reflects on what England could learn from these approaches as pressures on schools continue to grow.
By Charlie Samuda, 2026
By Scarlett Roberts, 2024
By Matthew Peters, 2024
Marsha McAdam (CF 2023) spoke at The Hope Conference 2025 in Liverpool, a grassroots event celebrating advocacy, connection, and lived experience.
By Marsha McAdam, 2025
By Fi Brown, 2024
By Jonathan Isserow, 2020
By Chris Hanvey, 2024
With self-inflicted deaths in prisons remaining consistently high, Piers Barber set out to explore how prisons can respond with stronger postvention – systematic aftercare following a suicide. His Fellowship took him to New Zealand, Australia, and Canada, where he saw examples such as the embedded role of chaplains in New Zealand prisons, new trials in Australia, and trauma training models for staff in Canada. He is now sharing his reflections with UK practitioners and policymakers, calling for leadership, mapping of all contact points, and varied support to strengthen suicide prevention in custody.
By Piers Barber, 2025