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The Provocateurs: Gender Fears / Haunted Mouths Show

Exhibition / Performance
Kulpa, R., & Zabrzewska, A. The Provocateurs: Gender Fears / Haunted Mouths Show. [Live Show]. 1 August 2025

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Kulpa, R., & Zabrzewska, A. The Provocateurs: Gender Fears / Haunted Mouths Show. [Live Show]. 1 August 2025
This Fringe 2025 show will feature Dr Roberto Kulpa & Dr Adrianna Zabrzewska (Edinburgh Napier University), who discuss why people who reject gender equalities turn to homopho...

Human rights and psychiatric practice in relation to involuntary treatment of young people in Europe

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stavert, J., Malmendier-Muehlschegel, A., & Schulze, U. (2025, June)
Human rights and psychiatric practice in relation to involuntary treatment of young people in Europe. Presented at ESCAP 2025: 21st International Congress of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Strasbourg
Aims: International human rights treaties emphasize autonomy and reducing or eliminating psychiatric coercion making which can conflict with involuntary psychiatric treatment....

Stethoscope 2.0: How Everyday Devices Could Help Doctors Listen Differently

Report
McGregor, I. (2025)
Stethoscope 2.0: How Everyday Devices Could Help Doctors Listen Differently
Traditional diagnostic tools like the stethoscope have long helped clinicians detect signs of illness through direct contact and active listening. In an era of ubiquitous sens...

Unified Mental Health and Capacity Law: Creating Parity and Non-Discrimination?

Journal Article
Stavert, J., & McKay, C. (2025)
Unified Mental Health and Capacity Law: Creating Parity and Non-Discrimination?  . International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 101, Article 102108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2025.102108
It has been argued that a fusion of mental health and capacity law creates parity and respects non-discrimination. This approach has been adopted in the Mental Capacity Act (N...

Wpływ polityki "antygenderowej" na życie codzienne i działalność aktywistyczną w Polsce i Europie

Digital Artefact
Zabrzewska, A., & Kulpa, R. (2025)
Wpływ polityki "antygenderowej" na życie codzienne i działalność aktywistyczną w Polsce i Europie. [Blog]
Badania europejskiego projektu RESIST dokumentują efekty systemowej dyskryminacji osób wspierających dążenia feministyczne i LGBTIQ+. Europejski projekt badawczy RESISTotwiera...

Balancing Time Equity & Academic Integrity: The Paradox of Deadline Extensions in Higher Education

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, J., Gutu, M., & Kurtzke, S. (2025, April)
Balancing Time Equity & Academic Integrity: The Paradox of Deadline Extensions in Higher Education. Poster presented at Advance HE EDI Conference 2025: The sum of many parts: Embedding intersectionality in HE practice, Newcastle, UK
Universities promote employability; employers expect graduates to meet deadlines; constructive alignment of assessment with learning outcomes (Biggs, 2007) is silent on extens...

Balancing time equity and academic integrity: The paradox of deadline extensions in higher education

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, J., Gutu, M., & Kurtzke, S. (2025, April)
Balancing time equity and academic integrity: The paradox of deadline extensions in higher education. Presented at Advance HE EDI Conference 2025: The sum of many parts: Embedding intersectionality in HE practice, Newcastle, UK
Higher education policies around deadline extensions seek to promote inclusivity yet may inadvertently create inequalities among student groups. This session examines this par...

Raport z projektu RESIST. Skutki i opór wobec mobilizacji "antygenderowych" w Europie. Raport o Polsce

Report
Kulpa, R., & Kania, T. (2025)
Raport z projektu RESIST. Skutki i opór wobec mobilizacji "antygenderowych" w Europie. Raport o Polsce. European Commission
Zmieniający się krajobraz społeczno-kulturowy Polski był przez lata areną intensywnego politycznego zaangażowania w zagadnienia płci i seksualności. Kwestie te stały się polem...

Towards a human-rights-based framework for assessing psychiatric intervention for children and young people

Journal Article
Stavert, J., Watts, J., Schulze, U. M. E., & Malmendier-Muehlschegel, A. (2025)
Towards a human-rights-based framework for assessing psychiatric intervention for children and young people. BJPsych Open, 11(2), Article e50. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.856
Decisions around psychiatric interventions for children and young people involve balancing respect for the child’s wishes, the need to provide benefit and relevant risk factor...

The RESIST Project Events. Confronting "Anti- Gender" Mobilizations across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia: Challenges and Queer-Feminist Resistances

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Filep, E., Jarosz, S., Kulpa, R., Mayerchyk, M., Plakhotnik, O., Sasunkevich, O. (., & Zabrzewska, A. (2025, March)
The RESIST Project Events. Confronting "Anti- Gender" Mobilizations across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia: Challenges and Queer-Feminist Resistances. Presented at Confronting "Anti- Gender" Mobilizations across Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, and Russia: Challenges and Queer-Feminist Resistances, Online and Warsaw, Poland
During the event, the RESIST Project Team and our guest speakers led discussions on queer-feminist resistances to “anti-gender” mobilizations in and across Ukraine, Poland, Be...

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A Human Rights Implementation Assessment for Mental Health Law and Policy

2025 - 2027
A project led by Dr Piers Gooding (La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia) ) with Co-Investigators Professor Neeraj Gill (Griffith University, South East Queensland, Australia) and Associate Profess...
Funder: Australian Research Council

Co-creating the future: the use of multifunctional robots in occupational therapy and dementia.

2025 - 2026
Dementia is a complex condition which can cause a diverse range of symptoms that impact everyday life for the person living with dementia, including their families' caregivers and supporters. Evidenc...
Funder: Royal College of Occupational Therapists | Value: £99,720

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust - Thrive Together

2024 - 2027
In this stage we will create a platform for people’s voices to be heard through a comprehensive collaborative cross-Scotland consultation process dividing it into north, central and borders so that an...
Funder: The Armed Forces Covenant Trust | Value: £764,999

Free Labour and Precarity in mental health provision: trainee counsellors experiences across the UK

2024 - 2026
This collaborative project critically examines the rise in service models and specifically mental health provision based on the free, gendered, precarious labour of trainee counsellors and psychothera...
Value: £14,841

AFFIRM - Planning for the Unplanned

2024 - 2027
The project will improve understanding, evaluate intervention, enhance partnership working, promote training about the Covenant and the support and care available to veterans to Acute Public Sector Se...
Funder: The Armed Forces Covenant Trust | Value: £299,674

Evaluation of the impact of BRAVEHOUND on Veteran Mental Health

2023 - 2025
The grant will be used to fund an evaluation, led by Napier University (Centre for Military Research) which will provide an evidence base report for Bravehound.
Funder: The Veterans Foundation | Value: £11,928

The Future of Mental Health Law: a comparative analysis of law reform debates in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, England and Wales

2023 - 2023
Mental Health Law and its relationship to human rights has become increasingly contested following the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Human rights argume...
Funder: British Academy | Value: £18,959

South Node Lead, Mental Health National Research Scotland Network

2022 - 2025
I have been appointed to NRS as the south node lead for mental health research network. This is a CSO infrastructure to support recruitment to mental health research in the NHS. I sit on the national ...
Funder: Chief Scientists Office

MORE RESPECT: A Randomised controlled trial of a sexual health promotion intervention for people with severe mental illness delivered in community mental health settin

2022 - 2026
This study focuses on people with severe mental illness (SMI) which includes problems like bipolar affective disorder, psychosis and other long-term problems that severely impact on ...
Funder: National Institute for Health Research | Value: £361,235

Mental health and substance use care pathways and outcomes for people released from prison

2022 - 2025
Lay summary: It is important that people released from prison get help for mental health and substance use. This will protect their health and help them live life away from crime. People released from...
Funder: Chief Scientists Office | Value: £48,917

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Evaluating existing smell retraining programmes and developing a multisensory smell retraining programme

2022 - date
Miss Emily Spencer | Director of Studies: Dr Duncan Carmichael | Second Supervisor: Dr Eleanor Drake

An exploration of first year student mental health nurses’ experiences of informal learning about sexual health.

2021 - 2026
Mrs Avril Montgomery | Director of Studies: Dr Janette Pow | Second Supervisor: Prof Inga Heyman

Evaluating ALBA: A pragmatic evaluation of a behaviour change intervention designed to increase physical activity to improve mental wellbeing

2016 - 2020
Introduction: Physical activity (PA) is beneficial for impr...
Dr Nicola Peddie | Director of Studies: Dr Tony Westbury | Second Supervisor: Prof Austyn Snowden

Trauma and psychosis: synthesising evidence, network modelling and expanding into an interventionist-causal paradigm to investigate mediating mechanisms

2016 - 2021
Dr Amanda Woodrow | Director of Studies: Prof Paul Hutton | Second Supervisor: Prof Thanos Karatzias

Real-time 3D graphic augmentation of music therapy sessions for people on the autism spectrum

2015 - 2019
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder that can affect people in a number...
Dr John McGowan | Director of Studies: Dr Gregory Leplatre | Second Supervisor: Dr Iain McGregor

Exploring the experiences of male caregivers caring for a partner with Alzheimer's dementia: An interpretative phenomenological analysis

2015 - 2020
Mrs Gwenne McIntosh | Director of Studies: Dr Norrie Brown | Second Supervisor: Dr Zoe Chouliara

A meta-analysis and controlled evaluation of short term pyschological intervention for acute mental health inpatients

2014 - 2018
There is evidence to suggest that psychological therapies for severe mental health ...
Charlotte Paterson | Director of Studies: Prof Thanos Karatzias | Second Supervisor: Prof Paul Hutton

Psychological distress in Polish immigrants in Scotland: a mixed methods study

2011 - 2015
Background: The available research on economic migration suggested that immigrants may be less happy than the indigenous p...
Dr Anna Bak-Klimek | Director of Studies: Prof Thanos Karatzias | Second Supervisor: Lawrence Elliott

Developing middle managers in the Hong Kong public sector: A critique of leadership development from a labour process perspective

2010 - 2017
Developing middle managers in the Hong Kong public sector: a critique o...
Dr Jennifer O'Neil | Director of Studies: Prof Thomas Garavan | Second Supervisor: Dr Janice McMillan

The impact of career guidance on well-being outcomes

2008 - 2013
Prof Peter Robertson

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