Watch RESEARCH EXPLORED 1: a short film on mental health research

After recently announcing our new partnership with Elstree Screen Arts Academy, we are delighted to share the first film in our RESEARCH EXPLORED collaboration. RESEARCH EXPLORED is a series of three short films where we'll dive into research projects done at our Lab on children and young people's mental health. With the films produced by a student-led creative team, RESEARCH EXPLORED is putting young creatives training at Elstree Screen Arts Academy at the heart of content about mental health - by young people, for young people.

Launched on 6 October, our first RESEARCH EXPLORED film examines a research project from our Lab looking at 'expressed emotion' - how parents talk about their children. In this paper, our Academic Lead Dr. Alice Wickersham and colleagues used E-Risk study to explore whether expressed emotion can help to predict the trajectory of their mental health over adolescence. The paper, published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, raises some interesting questions - how can we use parents' speech data responsibly? Should children be able to hear what their parents have said about them? And crucially, how can this information help us better support young people and their families through mental health challenges in adolescence?

Read more about this innovative partnership in our blog here, or the partner blog from ESA Academy Principal Director Chris Mitchell.