Projects and activities
Supporting trauma informed research practice
Bristol Health Partners is hosting training that will be delivered by Second Step (and will include public contributors with lived experience) to support Trauma Informed practice for researchers (including ARC West), HIT co-directors, public contributors and those in receipt of Research Capability Funding from the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board.
This focused one day face to face training for a cohort of 20 people will run quarterly in central Bristol, from April 2025 until March 2027 (total of eight training days over two years). It will develop capacity in trauma informed practice for those undertaking and supporting research in across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. To discuss further or to register for this training, please contact the Adversity & Trauma HIT’s [email protected] or a representative from the working group:
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Healthy weight and mental health
The Adversity and Trauma HIT collaborated with the Healthy Weight HIT and the Psychosis HIT on an workshop in January 2023 to explore the connections between mental health and weight.
Adversity and Trauma HIT member Laura Howe is a Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics at the University of Bristol. She gave the first talk on the relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences, poverty, obesity and mental health, based on insights from her research using Children of the 90s data. She highlighted that intergenerational trauma and poverty were big risk factors: women were three times more likely to have both depression and overweight if living in poverty, and men twice as likely.
