Our place in the wider research and NIHR landscape
We are part of the NIHR infrastructure and one of 20 NIHR Biomedical Research Centres in England – these are collaborations between universities and NHS organisations.
The NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) is part of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and hosted by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with King’s College London.
We are part of the NIHR infrastructure and one of 20 NIHR Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs) in England.
BRCs are collaborations between universities and NHS organisations. They bring together academics and clinicians to translate early stage discoveries into potential new treatments, diagnostics and technologies.
Our host NHS trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, provides the widest range of mental health services in the UK. It serves a local population of 1.3 million people and offers more than 260 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services across Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Croydon. It provides more than 20 specialist services for children and adults across the UK including perinatal services, eating disorders, psychosis and autism.
Our partner university is King’s College London, and its faculty the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) is a leading centre for mental health and neuroscience research globally and the largest in the UK. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, 90% of research at the IoPPN was deemed ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. The IoPPN grew out of a training school at the Maudsley Hospital in the 1900s and today it continues a uniquely strong partnership with the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, enabling the translation of research into clinical care.
King’s Health Partners
We are part of King’s Health Partners (KHP) – this brings together research, education and clinical practice across three NHS Foundation Trusts – Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley – and King’s College London.
We collaborate more broadly with Trusts and Universities across the UK and internationally, such as the Universities of Exeter, Oxford and Leicester. Our informatics team shares links with University College London, University College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the corresponding BRC.
Third-sector, lived experience and specialist collaborations
Our research benefits from the insight and expertise of people with relevant lived experience who work with us.
In the local community, the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and IoPPN lead the Building Race Equity and Diversity (BREaD) in Research Network, which was established to serve as a driving force to address racial inequities and improve diversity and inclusion in research involvement across our south London health partners. It brings together key stakeholders across King’s Health Partners and NIHR infrastructure alongside community partners, e.g. Croydon BME Forum, Black Thrive.
On a national scale, we work with patient advocacy groups and charities such as Beat, the UKs eating disorders charity, Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association and the Migraine Trust, who help us ensure the widest possible reach.
Our links with McPin Foundation and The Mental Elf ensure that we broaden our engagement and enhance the dissemination of our research.
The NIHR Maudsley BRC collaborates with leading specialist organisations like HDR UK, the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, and UK Biobank to advance our research through data-driven and genomic approaches.
Funders
NIHR Maudsley BRC projects regularly attract major funding from leading global and UK-based mental health organisations due to our innovation and impact. Our work has secured support from prestigious funders such as Wellcome, the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Medical Research Foundation.
Our role in the national NIHR landscape
We are part of the NIHR infrastructure and work with a range of collaborators in the NIHR network.
We are one of 20 NIHR Biomedical Research Centres in England.
Map of the Biomedical Research Centres across England
NIHR Translational Research Collaborations
We established the NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC) with NIHR Oxford Health BRC in 2017, to ensure people across the UK benefit from our research.
The MH-TRC brings together leading investigators in experimental medicine and early-stage translational mental health research from across the UK to accelerate discoveries into clinical practice. It connects centres of excellence across the UK, bringing together world-leading research expertise with infrastructure funded by the NIHR located in major universities and NHS Trusts.
NIHR BioResource for Mental Health
The NIHR BioResource Centre Maudsley is part of the NIHR BioResource. The research tissue bank recruits participants living with, or without, mental health conditions.
Local NIHR network
NIHR King’s Clinical Research Facility
The NIHR King’s Clinical Research Facility (CRF) is part of the NIHR and hosted by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. It is a purpose-built facility located at King’s College Hospital which supports clinical trials in mental health, neurology, general and acute medicine.
Clinical Research Facilities exist to help speed up the translation of scientific advances for the benefit of patients and we are one of 28 CRFs that received £161 million funding from the NIHR to support early-phase and complex studies.
NIHR Research Delivery Network
We work with the NIHR South London Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) which supports the delivery of research in the NHS and across a range of other health and social care settings.
NIHR Research Support Service Hub
The NIHR Research Support Service Hub supports research in mental health and brain disorders, across a range of research designs including clinical trials and observational studies. The hub is delivered by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and King’s Clinical Trials Unit at King’s College London, in partnership with PRIMENT Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.