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M3 Brocher Foundation Workshop
M3 meeting at the Brocher Foundation, Hermance, Switzerland, January 24/25, 2018 This workshop springs from a three year ESRC/Newton/FAPESP funded project on Mental Health, Migration and the Mega-City (M3), shared between Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, Cambridge University, Cardiff University, Fudan University School of Public Health, Shanghai, and Sao Paulo University Medical School. The workshop focus will be
Read morePlanned future meetings, conferences/workshops
We have planned a series of meetings, conferences/workshops to discuss work plans, disseminate research findings and explore future collaborative research opportunities: 1. Research team meeting, September 1, 2017, London, UK 2.São Paulo visit (Prof Nik Rose and Prof Nick Manning), November 2017,São Paulo, Brazil 3. Research team meeting, January, 2018, Shanghai China 4. Conference: Cities and mental health: interdisciplinary experiments. June 12-13
Read moreM3 Progress update
1. Completed Work Package 1 literature review on the mental health and life of rural-urban migrants in Shanghai. 2. Completed first stage of Work Package 2 ethnography work, which started in January 2017. The first stage ethnography fieldwork focused on migrants’ life in Jiuting Town, Songjiang. 3. We have added an additional Work Package 4, which will collect data on
Read moreNeuropolis in PLuS Alliance Symposium
Two sessions on Neuropolis were organised by Professor Nik Rose from KCL and Professor Jill Bennett from UNSW for the PLuS Alliance Symposium held on 20 April 2017. Nik talked about the cutting-edge research on neuro-urbanicity with case on mental health, migration and urbanisation in China. Dr. Andrea Mechelli and his colleagues introduced their exciting smartphone app Urban Mind that
Read morePolicy Forum Pod by Professor Nikolas Rose on mental health, migration and megacities
On the new Policy Forum Pod, Professor Nikolas Rose discusses how urbanisation is affecting our mental health, how to understand the meaning of stress in urban life, and what policymakers can do to take the stress out of city living: https://www.policyforum.net/mental-health-migration-and-megacities/
Read moreCollaboration with Andrea Mechelli to use the ‘Urban Mind’ app in China
We have added an additional Work Package 4, which will collect data on mental health and surrounding social and physical environment with the mobile app ‘Urban Mind’ developed with colleagues at King’s College, London, now being revised for use in China and other M3 cities. The Urban Mind app is a project lead by Dr Andrea Mechelli, a neuroscientist at
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