St Andrew's Healthcare is committed to promoting and maintaining high standards of care through the development and encouragement of research. We promote and collaborate in research for the ongoing evaluation and improvement of our own services and mental health services in general. Staff from a variety of professional disciplines and across the range of clinical specialities have produced and collaborated on a diverse range of research projects and other related activites leading to publication in professional journals. Click here to search our list of research projects. Clinical Seminars Each month, St Andrew's Healthcare hosts a Clinical Seminar where guest speakers talk on contemporary and relevant issues relating to research projects and clinical practice. The Clinical Seminar takes place in St Andrew's Conference Room (Main Building, Northampton) on the first Friday of every month at 1.30pm - 2.30pm. Seminars are free to attend and there is no need to book in advance. Just turn up on the day or if you would like further information, please contact Jo Nairn, Marketing Co-ordinator, on 01604 616537 or email admin@standrew.co.uk The Clinical Seminar programme for 2008 is as follows... Date Title Speaker 4 January 2008 PMAAV Carol Rooney, St Andrew's Healthcare 1 February 2008 Cannabis and Schizophrenia Dr Philip Robson, University of Oxford 7 March 2008 Advances in Neurobiology of Psychosis Prof Paul Harrison, University of Oxford 4 April 2008 No seminar this month 2 May 2008 Guidelines for Rapid Tranquilisation of Acutely Disturbed Adolescents Dr Jaume Morey-Canellas, St Andrew's Healthcare 6 June 2008 No seminar this month 4 July 2008 Augmentation Strategies in Resistant Depression Prof Phil Cowen, University of Oxford 1 August 2008 TBC 5 September 2008 TBC 3 October 2008 TBC 7 November 2008 TBC 5 December 2008 TBC Research Seminars St Andrew's also hosts Research Seminars every other month, again in the Conference Room (Main Building, Northampton), on the last Friday of the month at 1.30pm - 2.30pm. Seminars are free to attend. If you would like further information, please contact Jo Nairn, Marketing Co-ordinator, on 01604 616537 or email admin@standrew.co.uk The Research Seminar programme for 2008 is as follows... Date Title Speaker 25 January 2008 Antisocial Personality Disorder: Worth the effort? Worth the money? Professor Conor Duggan 28 March 2008 Waking up the ADHD Brain. The Efficacy of EEG Biofeedback Dr Neil Rutterford, University of Swansea 23 May 2008 TBC 27 June 2008 Self Harm in First Episode Psychosis Dr Samuel Harvey, Institute of Psychiatry 22 August 2008 TBC 26 September 2008 Facial Processing and Psychotic Symptoms Dr Panayiota Michalopoulou, Institute of Psychiatry 24 October 2008 Treatment of BPSD - Behavioural and Psychiatric Symptoms of Dementia Ian Maidment, Chief Pharmacist, Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust 28 November 2008 DSH Patients and Recovery Dr Julia Sinclair, University of Southampton Research Committee St Andrew's Healthcare has a Research Committee which is responsible for developing a research culture within the organisation, approving organisation funds to support research projects and for scrutinising research proposals to ensure that they are ethically and methodically sound. If you have any questions about research at St Andrew's, you can contact a member of the Research Committee at lbcresearch@standrew.co.uk. The Head Librarian and the Chair of the Research Group work closely together. To find out more about the Medical Library, click here.