Research programme: Occupation, mental health and boredom
This research programme is co-led by Dr
Katrina Bannigan, Reader at York St John University, and Hilary
Williams, Research and Development Lead
Occupational Therapist, South London and Maudsley NHS
Foundation Trust.
Dr
Katrina
Bannigan Hilary
Williams
Having obtained a Research
Capacity Training Scholarship at Kings College, London, Hilary
is working on an exploratory study of patient experience
and staff perspectives of patients’ experience of boredom on a
medium secure unit, forming the first stage of an overall
piece of work on the development and evaluation of an intervention
to address boredom in medium secure units.
The occupation, mental health and
boredom programme will provide the home for the first multi-centre,
international research study because the initial analysis of the
scoping study to map research activity related to occupation and
mental health (SIPPS project) has identified 133 people interested
in being involved in RCOMH’s research programmes; their interest is
spread across the programmes. However when asked which other
research programmes they are interested in the most frequently
selected programme was the occupation, mental health and boredom
programme. This suggests that boredom is an issue which crosses the
other research programmes. For this reason boredom has been chosen
as the topic that will be used to develop RCOMH’s first
international multi-centre research study …watch this space for
more information!
Katrina is a PhD supervisor, read her
profile.