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However, the Psychiatry Research Trust
needs your help in funding research projects.
Your
donation of any size can make a difference.
Donors are welcome to specify
that they wish their donation to be used for research into
a particular field of mental health or brain disease research.
The Psychiatry Research Trust
only employs one full time administrator and a part-time accountant
and therefore is able to keep its administration costs to
a minimum and the vast majority of all donations go directly
to the research projects for which they have been given.
Library
and Information Services
As various psychiatric units
are moved or closed, a number of collections of historical
material have been passed on to the Institute of Psychiatry
library for safekeeping. We are trying to retain, for the
historical record, one copy of anything relating to the treatment
of mental illness. The library is hoping to apply for financial
assistance from the British Library Preservation Fund for
assistance in binding and preserving some of this material.
In the meantime the shelves which the Psychiatry Research
Trust paid for are rapidly filling up. We are already planning
for any future reorganisations of the library to include still
more shelves to ensure that we do not have to throw away any
irreplaceable publications.
The library training room,
the fitting out of which the Psychiatry Research Trust paid
for, is proving to be an enormous asset. There are an ever-increasing
number of computer-based information services which clinicians
and research workers are anxious to learn about. Being able
to sit in a small group, with their hands on a computer keyboard
but able to watch a projected view of what their librarian-teacher
is telling them, is the ideal way of learning to use such
systems. We originally planned for a standard personal computer
to control the teacher's projector, but are now using a portable
computer which has enabled us to cut down the time spent converting
the room from a teaching room to a library reading room and
back to under a minute.
In addition to funding research
the PRT provides for the following:
Conor
Egan Memorial Prize
It is awarded in alternate
years for the best piece of work submitted for publication
in the field of risk-taking, self-damaging behaviour, deliberate
self-harm or suicide in adolescents and young adults. The
prize is open to all trainee psychiatrists who are following
a course of professional training and/or academic study at
the Institute of Psychiatry or South London and Maudsley NHS
Trust.
Kraupl-Taylor
Fellowship:
Dr Kraupl-Taylor was a consultant
psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital whose wife bequeathed
a sum of money to establish the Kraupl-Taylor Research Fellowship
in psychological treatments. The Fellowship runs for 3 years.
The first Kraupl-Taylor Fellow
was Dr Judy Proudfoot. Her project "Beating the Blues"
can be read here
Dr Patrick Smith has been
appointed as the second Kraupl-Taylor Fellow commencing on
the 1st April, 2001. Dr Smith will be carrying out a randomised
controlled treatment trial of cognitive behaviour therapy
for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in children and adolescents.
The
Lesley Ann Smith Fund:
The fund grants bursaries
to students studying clinical psychology.
The Peggy Pollak Fellowship
Dr Benno Pollak most generously
bequeathed a legacy to the Psychiatry Research Trust to set
up the Peggy Pollak Fellowship. These Fellowships are
awarded to young researchers carrying out work in the field
of Developmental Psychiatry.
Dr Matt Allin has been appointed
as a Peggy Pollak Fellow to carry out a research project entitled
‘Cerebellar Development and the maturation of cognition
and behaviour in young adults born preterm’
Dr Richard Meiser-Stedman
has also been appointed as a Peggy Pollak Fellow and he will
be researching ‘Post-traumatic stress disorder in young
children exposed to road traffic accidents: a prospective
study:’
The
Thomas James Okey Lectures
These twice yearly lectures
in the field of addictions are given by leading experts
across the world.
Become a member of the Psychiatry
Research Trust!
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