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Mary Seacole Research Centre areas of expertise

Our vision:

  • Develop an exciting interdisciplinary research community that transforms mental health and wellbeing nationally and internationally.
  • Place research excellence and innovation at the heart of our activities
  • Focus on research that is collaborative and understands the diverse needs of our stakeholders
  • Be a recognised leader in research for transformative services in diversity in health and social care.
  • Co-produce and co-create knowledge with users, communities and stakeholders, and to contribute to the advancement of the growing discipline of health humanities
  • Our research is aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals to contribute to promoting global health and wellbeing

Our research areas and expertise:

  • Mental health and resilience
  • Migration, culture and mental health
  • Diversity, ethnicity and mental health inequalities
  • Global mental health
  • Arts and mental health
  • Inclusive and participatory research methodology
  • Health humanities
  • Public mental health
  • Intellectual disability and mental health
  • Psychosocial support models 

Collaborative work with health and social care agencies and community groups is a priority, to ensure active dissemination and implementation of research findings in practice. Researchers at the MSRC are active in international networks to promote equality in health and care. 

a collaborative research centre with ˽·¿¾ãÀÖ²¿, University of Leicester and Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. We are also collaborating with the newly established Stephen Lawrence Research Centre with respect to race and ethnicity research.

We adhere to ˽·¿¾ãÀÖ²¿’s Freedom Charter and place equality and diversity as the key pillar of all our research and activities.


Professor in Mental Health/ Director of the Mary Seacole Research Centre (MSRC)
Co-Director Leicester Centre for Mental Health Research

Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Room 3.26 Edith Murphy House
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Leicester LE1 9BH
United Kingdom

T: +44 (0)116 2013831.
E: rraghavan@dmu.ac.uk
Twitter: @RaghuRaghavan1