Partnership and Collaboration

Many of our scientists are also clinicians and often share their time between clinical and research duties. This ensures a close link between research, teaching and the needs of the populations we serve clinically. These collaborations maximise the potential for educating the next generation of clinician-scientists, and translating research into meaningful clinical improvements.

North London NHS Foundation Trust 

North London NHS Foundation Trust  (NLFT) is a key research partner for UCL in mental health research. This includes basic health sciences to applied research. The Trust provides specialist mental health services across the London Boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington. 

The Trust hosts multiple joint clinical appointments for academics in Psychiatry and Psychology, including clinical epidemiologists working in CYP cohorts. NLFT also hosts NIHR Academic Clinical Fellows and Academic Clinical Lecturers on the Integrated Academic Training Programme. The Trust is a core part of the North Central London Training scheme in psychiatry. NLFT is now the lead provider for CAMHS services in the Boroughs and trainees take rotational placements at local partner NHS organisations including The Tavistock and Portman, UCLH and the Whittington. The Tavistock and Portman is merging into NLFT on 1.4.2026. 

Intellectual disability research is strongly represented in the partnership. The Trust’s research activity is supported through NOCLOR Research Support. 

• https://www.noclor.nhs.uk/about-us
• https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/research

UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

There are close links between the research teams at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and clinical teams in the UCL Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Many clinical psychologists and psychiatrists have joint academic and clinical appointments and several clinics at GOSH feed into multidisciplinary research programs, which include neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, as well as a range of evidence-based psychological treatments for children with chronic illnesses.

• UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
• Paediatric Mental Health Science Centre
• Jeanne Wolstencroft
• Isobel Heyman
• David Skuse

East London NHS Foundation Trust and North East London NHS Foundation Trust

Both academic and clinical training on the GOSH-Royal London scheme work closely with community services within the East London NHS Foundation Trust and the North East London NHS Foundation Trust, where UCL scientists are conducting research relevant for children and young people’s mental health and engaging local consultants in our academic training program.

Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families

Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
 

UK Trauma Council

The UK Trauma Council was co-founded and is co-directed by Prof. Eamon McCrory at UCL. Dr Rochelle Burgess, lecturer in Global Health at UCL’s Institute of Global Health sits on the Council providing expertise in community participation. Collectively, the Council brings together a group of leading experts, drawn from a variety of disciplines across all four nations of the UK, including research, practice and policy. It provides an authoritative and independent voice on childhood trauma, with a particular focus on creating and disseminating evidence-based resources and guidance.