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Gerard F. Leavey, PhD, (he/him/his)

Professor & Director of the Bamford Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Ulster University
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Professor Gerry Leavey took up the post of Director of the Bamford Centre at Ulster University in September 2012. He is Co-Lead for the NI Clinical Research Network -Mental Health. Prior to this, he was the Director of Research for Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and a researcher in the Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London. As a social worker he spent several years with Jewish Care, working with Holocaust survivors. He completed an MSc in Public Health and Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in Medical Sociology at UCL. He returned to Belfast in 2008. His research career has focussed on mental health services. He has a long-standing collaboration with the Division of Psychiatry at UCL, undertaking several major NIHR funded studies of housing and rehabilitation services. He has published widely on service pathways and access by minority ethnic, migrant, and disadvantaged populations. His work ranges from epidemiological studies on ethnic elders and refugee children to qualitative investigations of community level agencies such as schools and faith-based organisations, and their role in the recognition and management of mental illness. He holds Vsiting Professorships with Kings College London and Hunan People’s Children’s’ Hospital and University, China.

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