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  • From Research to Real-World Impact: My Placement Year with SPRING

    From Research to Real-World Impact: My Placement Year with SPRING

    By Kaelyn Dias Spring Year in Employment Intern 2025-26 Spending a year as an intern with SPRING at the University of Southampton gave me a front‑row seat to how mental health research is translated into real‑world impact. Getting Involved in Research A major part of my placement was contributing to two ongoing research projects. I… Read more

  • Building Confidence, Skills, and Direction: My Placement Year Reflection

    Building Confidence, Skills, and Direction: My Placement Year Reflection

    By Katie Burke SPRING Year in Employmeny Intern 2025-2026 I have never been particularly decisive. In my second year of university, asking me what I would pursue after graduation seemed like an incomprehensible question. After one lecture, I would decide to be a developmental research psychologist, then after the next, I would choose to work… Read more

  • Autism and Psychosis: What’s the Connection?

    Autism and Psychosis: What’s the Connection?

    Autistic people are more likely to experience symptoms linked to psychosis. Our new research brings together findings from over 60 studies to explore why this happens, and whether the tools we use to measure these conditions are fit for purpose. What We Did We reviewed 63 studies involving nearly 7 million people (N = 6,903,960).… Read more

  • AI’s place in mental healthcare – research summary

    AI’s place in mental healthcare – research summary

    The following blog is a summary of the research, based on two reviews by the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology. Both reports and their research references can be found here: By Katie Burke, Kaelyn Dias, and Emma Palmer-Cooper Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to any technology that allows machines to do tasks we would usually… Read more

  • Can Early Hearing Difficulties Signal Emerging Psychosis?

    Can Early Hearing Difficulties Signal Emerging Psychosis?

    Dondé, C., Palmer-Cooper, E., Gauld, C., Polosan, M., & Alderson-Day, B. (2025). Early auditory impairments as a candidate marker of attenuated sensory symptoms of psychosis. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 136, 111214. By Emma Palmer-Cooper Background Experiences of psychosis often involve changes in how people experience sounds. One well-known issue is difficulty in early auditory processing (EAP), which… Read more

  • Using technology to support psychosis treatment: perspectives from people with lived experience

    Using technology to support psychosis treatment: perspectives from people with lived experience

    Emma Palmer-Cooper Our recent systematic review published in Schizophrenia Research explored research published about patient perspectives on integrating digital or mobile tools with traditional face-to-face care, known as mHealth. Digital technology is increasingly being integrated into mental healthcare, particularly for serious mental illnesses like psychosis. Mobile health (mHealth) tools, such as smartphone apps and digital platforms, offer… Read more