About the centre
CeNTrUM is one of the largest mental health research groups in the UK and comprises a multi-disciplinary group incorporating
We have close collaborations with Primary Care, Nursing, Health Methodology and Imaging Sciences and are research partners with NHS sites across the North West.
Our vision is the understanding, prevention and treatment of mental health problems and the enhancement of mental health well-being.
The Centre aims to create knowledge and to translate this knowledge into policy, practice, training and teaching and to be recognised as an international centre of excellence
Our research
Research themes
- Basic processes in mental health
- Development and efficacy of new psychological and biological treatments
- Evaluation and translation into practice
Cross-cutting themes
- Qualitative and quantitative methods
- Statistics and methodology
- Imaging and biological methods
- Transdiagnostic approaches to mental health
- Global mental health
Research groupings
- Anxiety, mood, metacognitive therapy
- Eating disorders
- Functional somatic syndromes and symptoms
- Health psychology
- Intellectual and development disorders (including autism spectrum disorders)
- Manchester interdisciplinary collaboration for research on sleep (MICROS)
- Neuroscience and psychiatry unit
- Parenting and families
- Psychological understanding and treatment of psychosis
- Understanding the psychology of suicide (UPSide)
- Women's mental health