A Lancaster University Professor will be the lead academic examining the measurement of violence as part of eight new Mental Health Networks announced today by UK Research and Innovation.

Professor Sylvia Walby, the Director of the Violence and Society UNESCO Centre based at Lancaster University, will work within the network on ‘Violence, Abuse and Health: Opportunities for Change’, led Kings College, London, looking at the strand of work on the measurement of violence.

“This will provide an opportunity to develop the framework for the measurement of violence built by me and my Lancaster colleagues beyond crime into the field of health,” said Professor Walby.

Researchers from the Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London have been awarded more than £2 million to lead two of the eight new Mental Health Networks.

These innovative networks will aim to tackle the increasing challenges of poor mental health in modern society by giving people with lived experience of mental health problems a role in shaping and carrying out research. The networks will foster collaboration by bringing together academics, practitioners, charities, service users and other organisations.

The network on ‘Violence, Abuse and Mental Health: Opportunities for Change’ will ultimately include researchers from King's College London, the University of Warwick, UCL, St George’s University of London, the University of Oxford, City University of London, and Liverpool John Moores University.

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