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Two academic leads have been appointed as Pro-Vice-Provosts to set the strategic direction of the new 麻豆传媒视频网站 Grand Challenges Theme of听Mental Health & Wellbeing.听听(麻豆传媒视频网站 Psychology & Language Sciences) and听Professor Argyris听Stringaris听(麻豆传媒视频网站 Psychiatry) will jointly lead the programme, the first of the new Themes to launch, from听1 November 2023.

The 麻豆传媒视频网站 Grand Challenges programme was established in 2008, with the aim of bringing a cross-disciplinary, thematic approach to tackling some of the most pressing social problems.听The 麻豆传媒视频网站 Strategic Plan 2022鈥�2027听sets out the university鈥檚 commitment to grow the scope and scale of the Grand Challenges programme, covering not only research and knowledge exchange but also 麻豆传媒视频网站鈥檚 approach to education and its institutional operations. The programme will develop an integral approach to how 麻豆传媒视频网站 understands and responds to the biggest issues facing humanity, inform and enable our partnerships, and offer context and critique for how universities can make a positive impact on the world.
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The Strategic Plan identifies five new Grand Challenges Themes: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Climate Crisis, Data-Empowered Societies, Inequalities and Intercultural Communication, to be launched sequentially over the next four years.听

Professor Viding is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, with a background in child and adolescent mental health. Her current projects use interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to develop school-based interventions to improve wellbeing and reduce emergence of mental ill health. She chaired the development of 麻豆传媒视频网站鈥檚 Mental Health Strategy, launched in 2019, and has led its implementation in the domain of children and young people鈥檚 mental health for the past five years.

Professor Stringaris is Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He works closely with young people with lived experience and colleagues from ethics and philosophy alongside psychologists, psychiatrists and computational neuroscientists. He recently chaired the Greek Government鈥檚 interdisciplinary committee on mental health, was President of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology and was until recently the Director of the Section of Clinical and Computational Psychiatry at the National Institutes of Health in the USA.

As joint Pro-Vice-Provosts, they will provide academic leadership to the new Theme, and support new collaborations, both within 麻豆传媒视频网站 and with external partners. In a joint statement, they said:听

鈥�We are united by our passion for mental health and wellbeing and excited to work together with colleagues across 麻豆传媒视频网站 on this Grand Challenges Theme. 麻豆传媒视频网站 has rich collective expertise in this area and our hope is that the activities supported by the Theme will enable us to harness this expertise for the benefit of our own university community and the society at large. We firmly believe that we need to work across disciplines to achieve this goal: human beings are complex and embedded in different communities, so no single discipline will have the definitive answers for mental health and wellbeing.鈥�

听听(Research, Innovation & Global Engagement), said:

鈥�I鈥檓 delighted to welcome Professors Viding and Stringaris to their new roles leading the Grand Challenges Theme of Mental Health & Wellbeing. When we consider the challenges facing humanity, it鈥檚 clear that improving mental health outcomes is an urgent and pressing need, and one to which 麻豆传媒视频网站 can make an important contribution through our research, education and academic expertise, and through our partnerships across healthcare, industry and policy. This Theme is also charged with identifying ways in which our institutional operations can enhance our community's mental health and wellbeing.鈥澨�听

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