Public Involvement & Engagement
Learn more about our participatory research involving people with lived experience and outreach activities to share our findings with broad audiences.
​​November 2025
Our PhD student Emma Hayashibara was awarded funding from the ESRC LISS DTP to set up a new network for early-career researchers interested in participatory research and organise monthly workshops. ​​Well done Emma!
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The network is open to all PhD students from King's College London, Queen Mary University of London, and Imperial College London.
To hear about future events, follow Emma on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmahayashibara) or the network on BlueSky (@https://lnkd.in/esSY-Ppx)
​​November 2025
Our Lab Director Dr Michelini was recognised as QMUL Engagement Champion for her leadership and committment to involving and engaging members of the public and other stakeholders in research. Read the full article here. ​​
February 2025
We published a new Blog post on QMUL Centre for Public Engagement blog, co-written with QMUL students and Young People Advisory Group, to share what we have learned through our recent participatory project “Breaking down the barriers to accessing mental health care experienced by neurodivergent young people: a participatory approach”.
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February 2024
Our Lab Director Dr Michelini talked about our research on ADHD UK Science podcast.
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February 2023
We published a new Blog post on QMUL Centre for Public Engagement blog (co-written with QMUL students) to talk about the public engagement activity on youth mental health and wellbeing we ran at the 2022 Festival of Communities.
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November 2022
Our Lab Director Dr Michelini was invited to record a JAACAP podcast to discuss her recent paper: Michelini et al. (2022a) Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2022.06.017
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October 2022​
Dr Michelini and PhD students Shiqi Lu and Chiara Caserini attended the UKRI Emerging Minds Summitt, an exciting cross-sector event at the University of Oxford. Dr Michelini contributed as panel speaker to the Embracing Complexity panel, highlighting the mental health needs of neurodivergent people.
June 2022​
Dr Michelini and colleagues and students from QMUL ran an activity called "Happy Healthy Minds" at the 2022 Festival of Communities (11-12 June). The activity was designed to engage the local East London community in fun tasks around youth mental health and wellbeing, including "Build your brain with Play-Doh", "My Happyness Board" and "Memory Game". Thank you to all the families who came along and played/chatted with us! Here's the beautiful poster made by our students for the event.
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