Welcome
Welcome to our blog.
We are really excited about this Mental Health, Imagining beyond project and hope that you will find our reflections interesting and useful.
About Us:
The Community Wellbeing Collective (CWC) is a grassroots group of people living in or connected to Wester Hailes, Edinburgh. Together we transformed a derelict former off-license in Westside Plaza Shopping Centre into a Community Wellbeing Space, run by and for the people.
We create a space where we can come together to practice what community wellbeing can be, to expand public imagination and to take agency on the struggles and desires that we share. We share our diverse talents and skills of our lived experience to imagine and create new ways of being and healing together and addressing inequalities in the world.
We offer free community wellbeing activities, run by our members, to enhance health, wellbeing, and local action; and to create community cohesion.
Through monthly ‘anchor events’ we invite external organisations to collaborate and connect people in solidarity, and to the resources needed to fight the effects of the multiple crisis we experience in the current state of affairs. These events explore a wider politics around well-being, with discussions, creative workshops, and resources; building ways to support one another through our struggles.
Key contact: Josie Tothill
Read more about CWC on their website.
The Mental Health Data Science Group is based in the Division of Psychiatry at The University of Edinburgh.
They use data science and health informatics techniques to better understand mental illnesses, such as depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
They are particularly interested in the effects that biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors have on mental health and wellbeing.
This work is strongly interdisciplinary and involves collaboration across psychiatry, psychology, medical informatics, computing science, genomics and social sciences.
It makes use of data comes from volunteers (cohorts) from across Scotland, the UK and internationally.
Key contact: Iona Beange, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Officer
Read more about The Mental Health Data Science Group on their website.
Funding
We are very grateful to Research Data Scotland who provided the funding for this project via their Public Engagement Funding.
Research Data Scotland is a not-for-profit charitable organisation created and funded by the Scottish Government, and a partnership between leading universities and public bodies.
Their vision is to advance health and social wellbeing in Scotland by simplifying access to public sector data.
Their work is underpinned by a strong commitment to the public good and care for safety and security.
Read more about Research Data Scotland on their website.
