About CPSR
The Centre's mission statement is "to provide a national and international lead in research improving the development and delivery of psychological services for the benefit of people´s well being"
A CPSR Board oversees the national and international strategy and includes Professors Graham Turpin (Clinical Psychology Unit; Chair), Ron Akehurst (ScHARR), Dick Eiser (Psychology), Jon Nicholl (ScHARR), Dr Tom Ricketts (Sheffield Health & Social Research Consortium), and Eleni Chambers (Independent User Researcher).
The Vision
The aim of the Centre is to improve decision-making, quality, and outcomes of services providing psychological treatment to people who have mental or physical health problems. Its name reflects the unique positioning of Psychological Services Research (PSR) which combines the techniques and disciplines of Health Services Research together with those of psychological research.
Hallmarks of the new Centre are its espousal of equipoise in researching the diversity of psychological therapies, commitment to translational research, collaboration with practitioners and service users, and openness to the full array of research and statistical methods.
CPSR aims to establish interdisciplinary and collaborative research activity via a range of research programmes operating at local, national, and international levels.
Hallmarks of Research Programme
The emphasis is on pragmatic multi-method approaches to translational research, aimed at improving the organisation and delivery of psychological services and placing health economics in a central role in their evaluation.
We have a particular interest in linking findings on therapy process, efficacy and cost-effectiveness, for example, through building and analyzing very large naturalistic data sets derived from UK service settings; comparing these with large international data sets on costs and outcomes; benchmarking outcomes against data from controlled clinical trials and understanding these services in the wider context of public mental health and well being.