Details of our Mental Health First Aid group. In 2022, funded by UKRI BBSRC, EASTBIO set up a group of qualified Mental Health First Aiders (MHFAs). The group includes students, supervisors and management members, leading work that consolidates a culture of respect, equality and diversity within EASTBIO and its partner institutions.Email us if you want to arrange to speak to one of our First Aiders.Students and supervisors can contact the group via our mailbox to share any issues, request a one-to-one-meeting with a First Aider, or share something of interest to students. EastBio Mental Health First Aid group EastBio Doctoral Training Partnership Contact details Email: eastbio.mhfa@eastscotbiodtp.ac.uk Current qualified Mental Health First AidersEastBio established its first cohort of Mental Health First Aiders in 2022 with training delivered for us by MHScot - a social enterprise focusing on stress prevention and early mental health intervention in the workplace. We have since trained another group of Mental Health First Aiders in 2024.MHScotOur trained Mental Health First Aiders are:Cathrine Baungaard (Aberdeen)Clare Blackburn (Edinburgh, Supervisor)Erin Brown (Aberdeen)Fiona Bunn (Edinburgh)Emily Candlish (Aberdeen)Ella Catherall (Edinburgh)Marta Chronowska (Edinburgh)Eileen Clemens (Aberdeen)Kate Dubarry (Edinburgh)Oliver Eve (Edinburgh)Emily Fields (JHI)Maria Filippakopoulou (EastBioTeam)Sannie Fu (Edinburgh)Hazel Harrop (EastBio Team)Jack Horne (Aberdeen/SRUC)Edgar Huitema (Dundee, Supervisor)Barbara Illithova (Aberdeen)Somya Iqbal (Edinburgh)Inés Jiménez Pulido (Edinburgh)David Knight (Aberdeen)Zusanna Konieczna (Edinburgh)Sajan McCorkindale (Aberdeen)Samantha Miller (Aberdeen, Supervisor)Morag Milne (St Andrews)Annis Newman (Edinburgh)Thomas Otto (St Andrews, Supervisor)Felicitas Pamatat (Aberdeen)Maria Juliana Rodriguez Cubillos (Edinburgh)Rebecca Scaife (Edinburgh)Monika Selvakumar (Edinburgh)Nadine Sommer (Aberdeen)Tim Spankie (Edinburgh)Lucy Turnbull (Edinburgh)Michael Wegg (Edinburgh)Contact the MHFA teamIf you have a concern or question about your own mental health, you can contact the MHFA team, in confidence, by email.This email address is monitored on rota by Mental Health First Aiders from across the partnership, including supervisors who are part of the EASTBIO Management Group. If speaking to the management team makes you uncomfortable, you can specify in your email that you do not wish for them to help you.We will also run a number of regular drop-in sessions, arranged locally and online, as needed.We are open to running more activities as the Mental Health First Aider team becomes more established at EASTBIO and we are keen to liaise with more MHFA groups across the partnership with the aim of helping to remove the stigma attached to ill mental health and disability in academia. EastBio Mental Health First Aid group EastBio Doctoral Training Partnership Contact details Email: eastbio.mhfa@eastscotbiodtp.ac.uk This article was published on 2024-06-17
