In May 2022 EASTBIO established its first cohort of Mental Health First Aiders with training delivered for us by MHScot - a social enterprise focusing on stress prevention and early mental health intervention in the workplace.
Our first cohort of trained Mental Health First Aiders are
- Clare Blackburn (Edinburgh, Supervisor)
- Erin Brown (Aberdeen)
- Fiona Bunn (Edinburgh)
- Emily Candlish (Aberdeen)
- Ella Catherall (Edinburgh)
- Kate Dubarry (Edinburgh)
- Oliver Eve (Edinburgh)
- Maria Filippakopoulou (EASTBIO Team)
- Sannie Fu (Edinburgh)
- Edgar Huitema (Dundee, Supervisor)
- Somya Iqbal (Edinburgh)
- David Knight (Aberdeen)
- Zusanna Konieczna (Edinburgh)
- Samantha Miller (Aberdeen, Supervisor)
- Morag Milne (St Andrews)
- Annis Newman (Edinburgh)
- Felicitas Pamatat (Aberdeen)
- Rebecca Scaife (Edinburgh)
- Monika Selvakumar (Edinburgh)
- Tim Spankie (Edinburgh)
- Lucy Turnbull (Edinburgh)
- Michael Wegg (Edinburgh)
If you have a concern or question about your own mental health, you can contact the MHFA team, in confidence, by email. This email address is monitored on rota by Mental Health First Aiders from across the partnership, including supervisors who are part of the EASTBIO Management Group. If speaking to the management team makes you uncomfortable, you can specify in your email that you do not wish for them to help you.
We will also run a number of regular drop-in sessions, arranged locally and online, as needed. We are open to running more activities as the Mental Health First Aider team becomes more established at EASTBIO and we are keen to liaise with more MHFA groups across the partnership with the aim of helping to remove the stigma attached to ill mental health and disability in academia.
