We have some exciting news to share with you regarding our friends from Hamburg, Germany. As some of you may remember we had a visit from Professor Candelaria I. Mahlke and her colleagues from the University of Hamburg a couple … Continue reading →

On the 14th September 13 SUGAR members and City University of London staff travelled up to Nottingham to attend the 22nd International Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research (NPNR) Conference 2016.  Most of the group stayed in the Crown Plaza hotel … Continue reading →

On Wednesday 5th October East London Foundation Trust presented a mental health research day where they invited SUGAR to have a stall promoting what we stood for and how we advised on research as service users and carers. The day … Continue reading →

We were delighted to see our frieds from Japan on Thursday 29th September when they paid us a visit for our monthly SUGAR meeting. Prof Kazuyo Kitaoka is based at Kanazawa University and Prof Kayoko Ohnishi, at Sonoda Women’s University … Continue reading →

On Wednesday 16th September, members of SUGAR and staff met up at Euston station for the journey up to Manchester’s Pendulum Hotel for the 21st Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research (NPNR) conference. In all, 11 SUGAR members attended the conference along with several members … Continue reading →

So here we are at the end of another year for SUGAR, which has seen plenty of change. Since September 2014 we have had 10 meetings with 11 service users and carers’ attending. SUGAR have had over 20 different speakers … Continue reading →

On Tuesday 7th July, myself, Sally Barlow, and SUGAR members Michael and Mandy all met up at Kings Cross Station where we walked to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) to meet up again with our friends from MindTech.  Unfortunately … Continue reading →

Safewards interventions (includes SUGAR)  Hello to all SUGAR members and followers. The SUGAR group was initially established by Professors Len Bowers and Alan Simpson to contribute to the development and testing of a package of interventions designed to reduce levels … Continue reading →

I would just like to take this opportunity, on behalf of the whole SUGAR group, to welcome our four new members. It was Philip’s, Syeda’s and Zhenreenah’s first SUGAR meeting in May and we were delighted with their contributions to … Continue reading →

At the crack of dawn on a fresh spring morning in March, SUGAR members assembled over a cup of coffee in St Pancras International train station, London, ready for a trip out of the Big Smoke up to Sherwood Country. … Continue reading →