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Sarah Rees
(she/her)
BSc, MSc, PhD
Public Involvement Lead / Intervention Development Coordinator
Overview
I am the Public Involvement Lead at the National Centre for Mental Health (NCMH). I am particularly interested in ensuring that the outcomes of mental health research make a difference to people's lives.
I provide advice, guidance and support to both research programmes and individual research projects on public involvement activities with people with lived experience of mental health conditions, and their families and loved ones. I coordinate many of the centre’s established public advisory groups, including our YAG (Young People’s Advisory Group), PÂR lived experience group, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Public Advisory group. I provide professional advice on public involvement strategy and governance in mental health research.
I continue to advise on and support our ongoing Student Mental Health research. A psychologist by background, my primary research interest is mental health and wellbeing. My expertise is in intervention development, qualitative work and research methods. Following completion of my MSc Health Psychology, I worked as a psychology practitioner in the NHS alongside academic research roles. I obtained my PhD in 2019, on the topic of disclosure of mental ill health by doctors and medical students.
Publication
2025
- Marshall, E. et al. 2025. Nurture-U student mental health longitudinal survey: a study protocol. BMJ Open 15(2), article number: e098413. (10.1136/bmjopen-2024-098413)
2019
- Farrell, S. M. et al. 2019. Wellbeing and burnout among medical students in Wales. International Review of Psychiatry 31(7-8), pp. 613-618. (10.1080/09540261.2019.1678251)
- Rees, S., Cohen, D., Marfell, N. and Robling, M. 2019. Doctors' decisions when disclosing their mental ill-health. Occupational Medicine 69(4), pp. 258-265., article number: kqz062. (10.1093/occmed/kqz062)
2016
- Cohen, D., Winstanley, S. and Greene, G. 2016. Understanding doctors' attitudes towards self-disclosure of mental ill health. Occupational Medicine 66(5), pp. 383-389. (10.1093/occmed/kqw024)
2013
- Cohen, D., Rees, S., Palmer, P., Allen, J., Howells, S., Greene, G. and Rhydderch, M. 2013. Factors that impact on medical student wellbeing: perspectives of risks. Project Report. [Online]. Gneral Medical Council. Available at: https://www.gmc-uk.org/about/what-we-do-and-why/data-and-research/research-and-insight-archive/factors-that-impact-on-medical-student-wellbeing
- Simkiss, D. E. et al. 2013. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a universal parenting skills programme in deprived communities: multicentre randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open 3(8) (10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002851)
2011
- Stewart-Brown, S., Anthony, R., Wilson, L., Winstanley, S., Stallard, N., Snooks, H. and Simkiss, D. 2011. Should randomised controlled trials be the "gold standard" for research on preventive interventions for children?. Journal of Children's Services 6(4), pp. 228-235. (10.1108/17466661111190929)
2010
- Simkiss, D. E. et al. 2010. Measuring the impact and costs of a universal group based parenting programme: protocol and implementation of a trial. BMC Public Health 10, article number: 364. (10.1186/1471-2458-10-364)
Articles
- Marshall, E. et al. 2025. Nurture-U student mental health longitudinal survey: a study protocol. BMJ Open 15(2), article number: e098413. (10.1136/bmjopen-2024-098413)
- Farrell, S. M. et al. 2019. Wellbeing and burnout among medical students in Wales. International Review of Psychiatry 31(7-8), pp. 613-618. (10.1080/09540261.2019.1678251)
- Rees, S., Cohen, D., Marfell, N. and Robling, M. 2019. Doctors' decisions when disclosing their mental ill-health. Occupational Medicine 69(4), pp. 258-265., article number: kqz062. (10.1093/occmed/kqz062)
- Cohen, D., Winstanley, S. and Greene, G. 2016. Understanding doctors' attitudes towards self-disclosure of mental ill health. Occupational Medicine 66(5), pp. 383-389. (10.1093/occmed/kqw024)
- Simkiss, D. E. et al. 2013. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a universal parenting skills programme in deprived communities: multicentre randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open 3(8) (10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002851)
- Stewart-Brown, S., Anthony, R., Wilson, L., Winstanley, S., Stallard, N., Snooks, H. and Simkiss, D. 2011. Should randomised controlled trials be the "gold standard" for research on preventive interventions for children?. Journal of Children's Services 6(4), pp. 228-235. (10.1108/17466661111190929)
- Simkiss, D. E. et al. 2010. Measuring the impact and costs of a universal group based parenting programme: protocol and implementation of a trial. BMC Public Health 10, article number: 364. (10.1186/1471-2458-10-364)
Monographs
- Cohen, D., Rees, S., Palmer, P., Allen, J., Howells, S., Greene, G. and Rhydderch, M. 2013. Factors that impact on medical student wellbeing: perspectives of risks. Project Report. [Online]. Gneral Medical Council. Available at: https://www.gmc-uk.org/about/what-we-do-and-why/data-and-research/research-and-insight-archive/factors-that-impact-on-medical-student-wellbeing
- Simkiss, D. E. et al. 2013. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a universal parenting skills programme in deprived communities: multicentre randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open 3(8) (10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002851)
- Stewart-Brown, S., Anthony, R., Wilson, L., Winstanley, S., Stallard, N., Snooks, H. and Simkiss, D. 2011. Should randomised controlled trials be the "gold standard" for research on preventive interventions for children?. Journal of Children's Services 6(4), pp. 228-235. (10.1108/17466661111190929)
- Simkiss, D. E. et al. 2010. Measuring the impact and costs of a universal group based parenting programme: protocol and implementation of a trial. BMC Public Health 10, article number: 364. (10.1186/1471-2458-10-364)