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Professor Scott Weich

Job Title
Professor in Psychiatry
Department
WMS - Mental Health and Wellbeing
Phone
024 7657 4708
Research Interests

Scott's main research interests include the socio-economic and contextual determinants of the most common mental disorders, anxiety and depression in general population settings. He has experience of epidemiological research, especially cohort studies and secondary analysis of complex data sets.Currently funded projects include an evaluation of a lifestyle change intervention in people with severe mental illness. He is a collaborator on several national surveys of psychiatric morbidity.

Biography

Scott trained at Cambridge University and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, before completing post-graduate training in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was a Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, before being appointed as a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School (now Royal Free and University College Medical School) in 1996. He was appointed Foundation Professor of Psychiatry at Warwick Medical School in June 2003 and works as an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust. He was appointed as Clinical Director of West Midlands (South) CLRN in October 2010.

Title Funder Award start Award end
ADCARE via UCL National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Jul 2016 30 Jun 2019
Evaluating the Use of Patient Experience Data to Improve the Quality of Inpatient Mental Health Care National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Dec 2015 30 Nov 2018
Evaluating the Effects of Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) in England Using the Mental Health Minimum Dataset National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Jan 2016 31 Aug 2018
Mental Health Alliance for Excellence, Resilience Innovation & Training - MERIT Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust 13 Mar 2016 31 Jul 2016
Royal College of Psychiatrists: Small project funding - Angharad De cates: Feasibility study of investigation into specific neurocognitive correlates of self harm. Royal College of Psychiatrists 01 Apr 2015 31 Jul 2016
Understanding social contributions to disparities in depression care: US and UK ESRC 01 Jan 2010 31 Dec 2014
Scott Weich - Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust award (Research Fellow to support Research Impact Assessment project) Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust 02 Sep 2013 31 Mar 2014
Funding for Research Fellow for Trust Research Impact Assessment Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust 29 Aug 2013 31 Mar 2014
Cov and Warks Partnership Trust RDF funding:Developing Interventions to Reduce Involuntary Admissions to Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust 01 Jun 2013 31 Oct 2013
Therapeutic communication in black and minority ethnic populations: a synthesis of the evidence base: Via QMUL The Human Tissue Authority (HTA) 01 Jan 2012 30 Jun 2013
Call 10/11 - FULL Proposal: Reponsive funding in the NHIR SDO Programme: Secondary analyses National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Oct 2011 31 Dec 2012
Implementing the GRiST clinical decision support system within primary care and the community, to improve detection and management of suicide risk amongst depressed patients. Judi Meadows Memorial Fund 01 Jan 2011 31 Mar 2012
HTA (OPERA) Older Peoples Exercise Invention in Residential and Nursing Accommodation National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Apr 2007 31 Mar 2011
Ethnicity, Detention and Early intervention, Reducing Inequalities and Improving Outcomes for Black and Minority Ethnic Patients - The Enrich Programme Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust 01 Apr 2007 31 Mar 2011
Cross Cultural Validation of WEMWEBS Among English Speaking Members of Minority Ethnic Populations in the UK - continuing development 09/10 National Institute for Mental Health in England 01 Jun 2009 31 May 2010
Pilot study to enhance recovery through physical activity National Institute for Health Research (DoH) 01 Jan 2008 31 Dec 2009
Evaluation of Focused Implemenation Site Programme: Extension National Institute for Mental Health in England 01 May 2008 31 Mar 2009
An investigation into the links between a proactive corporate approach to employee health, attendance management and its effect on organisational performance BUPA Foundation 01 Sep 2006 28 Feb 2009
In-patient staff morale: a national investigation University College London 01 Nov 2006 31 Oct 2008
MHRN Research Group: Ethnic Inequalities in Mental Health Care Kings College London 01 Oct 2006 30 Sep 2008
Acute Mental Health Service Use by Black Minority Ethinc Groups Study National Institute for Mental Health in England 01 Mar 2008 31 Aug 2008
BUPA Foundation Grant - A randomised controlled trial of internet based cognotive behavioural psychotherapy University of Bristol 01 Sep 2005 31 Dec 2007
UK Longitudinal Household Study ESRC 01 Apr 2007 30 Sep 2007
UK Longitudinal Household Study ESRC 01 Apr 2007 30 Sep 2007
Evaluation of the Focussed Implementation Site Programme National Institute for Mental Health in England 01 Dec 2005 30 Nov 2006
Affectometer 2 - Proposal for Phase 3 of the UK Validation - Supplemental IP Agreement NHS Health Scotland 01 Apr 2005 30 Jun 2006
Affectometer 2 - Proposal for Phase 3 of the UK Validation NHS Health Scotland 01 Apr 2005 30 Jun 2006
National Centre for Research in Ethnicity and Mental health National Institute for Mental Health in England 23 Jun 2005 23 Jun 2006
National Centre for Research in Ethnicity and Mental Health National Institute for Mental Health in England 01 Jan 2003 31 Dec 2005