Funding and Collaborators

Our Funders and Research collaborators in Ireland and around the world

Our state-of-the-art research is funded by a number of organisations both nationally and internationally. To date, we have received nearly €8 million in research funding.  

We collaborate with researchers and institutions in Ireland, across Europe, as well as in South America (Brazil) and Asia (Malaysia).

 

FUNDING

Recent Awards

  • University College Dublin (UCD), Visiting Professor (Incoming Prof Neil Vickers) - MindReading: narrative and mental health, €5,000
  • College of Arts and Humanities, UCD, MindReading 2020, €1,500University College Dublin (UCD), ISSF Medical Humanities & Social Science Collaborative Scheme, €29,929 The Wellcome Trust (WT), Parental perceptions regarding the benefits of and barriers to physical activity in children with Spina Bifida: A clinical collaboration with Children's University Hospital Temple St.,
  • Temple Street Foundation, Seed funding Grant, SPACE programme (2017 and 2018).  Research assistant bursary. This supported Temple St’s ongoing parenting intervention supporting parents of young people who self-harm. This programme was successfully evidenced by an RCT and we continue to offer it twice a year to all parents who self refer/ are referred by CAMHS services etc.
  • Temple Street Foundation; Awarded Seed funding grant, for research assistant bursary.  Deliberate self harm in the ED (2016). Has facilitated creation of a database of >1200 emergency presentation to the Emergency Department Liaison Psychiatry service.  Poster and oral presentations at EPA 2018, ESCAP 2018

OUR COLLABORATORS

  • The University of Warwick 
  • Instituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico
  • King’s College London
  • Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire (CHRU) de Montpellier 
  • Yulius Academy 
  • University of Ulm
  • Kliniki bolniki centar Split, Croatia   
  • Erasmus Medical Centre
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital
  • Saint John of God Hospitaller Ministries
  • Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin
  • Bodywhys
  • HealthTracker Ltd.
  • Concentris research management GmbH

 

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Past Funding and Collaborators

2019:

Adolescent Pathways to Crisis Mental Health Care: From Garda Contact to Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services

PI: Professor Fiona McNicholas (UCD)

Funder: Police Authority Research Bursary €19,053

Date of award:

 

Transition from child to adult mental health services for youths with Emerging Severe Mental Illnesses (TESMI)

Funder: Saint John of God Research Foundation: €49,803

Date of award: 01 Jul 2019

 

2018:

Evaluation of the PiLaR Programme

Funder name: Health Service Executive (HSE). €3,252

Date of award: Sep 2018

2016

Developing the evidence base on psycho- educational parenting programmes to enhance the mental health resilience of children and young people with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (Eb-PEPP)

PI: Professor Fiona McNicholas (UCD)

Irish Research Council: €10,000

Date of award: Feb 2016

 

What do we want? Planning an international conference to promote the mental health and wellbeing for young people with 22q11.2DS with the Irish Youth Experts by Experience Panel (22qYEEP!)

PI: Professor Fiona McNicholas

Irish Research Council: €9999.75

Date of award: Feb 2016

 

Marie Curie Award

Dr Cliodhna O Connor

Supervisor: Professor Fiona McNicholas

 

2014

UCD Foundation Newman Fellowship: Developing a programme of ADHD research in Ireland

PI: Prof Fiona McNicholas

Co-Applicant: Dr Blanaid Gavin

Shire Pharmaceuticals – unrestricted educational grant through the UCD Foundation

€100,000

Growing up and Children in CAMHS in Ireland Study: Translating population-based findings into a clinical context: Comparative analysis of Growing Up in Ireland and CAMHS data (GUCCI).

Principal Applicant: Professor Fiona McNicholas

Co-Applicants: Dr Blanaid Gavin, Dr Udo Reulbach

St John of Gods Research Fund: €50,000

ID: 55-901-170.

2013

THE MILESTONE PROJECT: Managing the Link and Strengthening Transition from Child to Adult Mental Health Care

Singh S, Paul M, McNicholas F, Madan, J, Wolke, D, Degirolamo G, Santosh P, Ouakil D, Maras A, Schulze U, Franic T, Verhulst F, & Gates S

Awarded July 2013

7th Framework program CER, EU €6,000,000

FP7-HEALTH-2013-INNOVATION-1: ID 602442

 

The cost and cost-effectiveness of models of care for child and adolescent anorexia nervosa

Byford S, Eisler I, Nicholls D, Gowers S, Barrett B, Fletcher J, Ringwood S, Ford T, Glaze R, Macdonald G, McNicholas F, Simic M

National Institute for Health Research £675,578

Awarded July 2013

 

An investigation of the effects of maternal depression during pregnancy on the baby's HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal) axis and development during the first year of life

O’Keane V, Molloy E, Fenton J, Connor T, Gray S, McNicholas F, Cody D

Awarded July 2013

Health Research Board: €329,508

 

Knowledge of and Attitudes Towards Eating Disorders in Ireland and Pathways to Care (STEDI)

McNicholas F, McNamara N, Dooley B.

Awarded: Jan 2013

St John of Gods Research Fund: €62,414.64

 

2010

The Transition from CAMHS to Adult Mental Health Services in Ireland (ITRACK): A Study of Service Organisation, Policies, Process and User and Carer Perspectives. ITRACK study aims to identify the barriers and enablers to effective transition for adolescents from CAMHs to adult services.

McNicholas F, Gavin B, Dooley B, Coyne I, Ford T, Paul M, Singh S.

Health Research Board (HRB): €198,973.80

 

2006

Low Birth Weight – Follow up study of LBW infants to age 12, the med, psychological, cognitive outcomes.

Principal Applicant: Professor Fiona McNicholas

St John of Gods Research Fund: €252,000

 

2004

EPICA Epidemiological Study of eating Problems in Children and Adolescents

Principal Applicant: Professor Fiona McNicholas

St John of Gods Research Fund: €250,000

 

Consultation and Advice Study; Comparing consultation and advice over 3 sessions to treatment as usual in child psychiatry community settings.

Principal Applicant: Professor Fiona McNicholas

St John of Gods Research Fund: €189,000

 

Selective Mutism - Development of treatment programme and manual

Principal Investigator: Professor Fiona McNicholas

Donation: €10,000