New news item on the website on a Report on the M-BRIGHT intervention (Mental Health Club) Qualitative Data Collection (30-31 July 2026), Cambodia - read it and please do share! www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...

Not forgetting the team in Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia, who are also collecting qualitative data this week with Aisling on site with the team from Royal University of Phnom Penh

Drs Aisling Murray and Francois van Loggerenberg are in Phnom Penh to assist with the planning for qualitative data collection later this week in the sites. Always a pleasure to be with the team! Here’s to a happy and productive week.

Huge congratulations to our Research Coordinator, Aisling, who passed her PhD viva last week; Congratulations Dr Murray! The tile of her dissertation is :Exploring psychological resilience in children, young people and families from minoritised ethnic populations: An embodied and arts-based inquiry"

As part of our study assessments, we recently conducted a qualitative data workshop in Vietnam, followed by data collection. Read about it on our website - www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...

Just a reminder that you can read all the latest news about the M-BRIGHT study on our website. There's a news article there about the Bold Ideas for Brighter Futures conference in Cape Town last week on there #BIBF26 www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...

One of the joys of teaching is running into students when you least expect to! Thanks to Hadeel who I ran into at #bibf2026 and who sent me this lovely picture. All the best for your placement in Cape Town! @ihtmoxford.bsky.social

At our poster station 78. Come and learn more about co-adaptation of mental health literacy support, especially in Vietnam and Cambodia #bibf2026 @qmul-wiph.bsky.social

Come and chat to Francois at poster 78 - ‘Co-adapting a school-based mental health literacy intervention for adolescents in Cambodia & Vietnam’ at #bibf2026

Opening the Bold Ideas for Brighter Futures conference with young people and song - a rousing welcome!

Excited to be learning more about the Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Schools Mental Health #boldideasforbrighterfutures

Excited to be in Cape Town this week at the Bold Ideas for Brighter Futures conference. Kicking off with a @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant writing workshop. Securing funding is key!

It was great to represent our work yesterday at @qmulresilience.bsky.social parliamentary research reception. We had a poster in the global mental health corner and got to chat to lots of people about our co-adaptation work in Vietnam and Cambodia. @qmul-wiph.bsky.social

Francois moved on to conduct a monitoring visit in Hanoi this week. He conducted file reviews, looking at all the consent and assent forms, and checking a selection of the data forms against the data in REDCap. It is a great opportunity for the team to review what can be done to improve quality.

This week the monitoring visit moves to Hanoi. Some pictures from Hanoi, including mottos on the files that are giving us joy!

Monitoring visits can feel a bit daunting for teams, but hopefully this week with Francois has been a great opportunity to learn about research processes and procedures and to tighten these up for the country teams. Francois certainly enjoyed his time in Phnom Penh. Hanoi next!

Some welcome rain on the penultimate day of Francois’s monitoring visit to The Royal University of Phnom Penh. A few pictures from enchanting Cambodia!

Great pictures from the intervention underway - on the M-BRIGHT webpage, in the news section: www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...

Some more pictures from Aisling’s visit to Cambodia this week past week. A great opportunity to catch up with the team!

Great to have Aisling meeting with the Cambodian team in Phnom Penh today. Looks like a productive meeting! Always great to visit the Royal University of Phnom Penh

Great pictures from the second round of face-to-face mental health literacy taking place in Cambodia, this time in Kampong Chhnang. All the best to our team and the trainees!

A few photos from the mental health literacy training in Siem Reap, Cambodia, last week. Francois joined the team for this training.

Day 2 of the mental health literacy training in Siem Reap, Cambodia. A few pictures, one from Francois' session yesterday, a picture of the facilitators and a picture of the organising team. So far, very productive and stimulating sessions! @qmul-wiph.bsky.social

Teamwork makes the dream work - the M-BRIGHT trainees in Siem Reap working on lists of community resources, and understanding what contributes to good mental health in young people in Cambodia

All the trainees today in Siem Reap as we kick off the training in Cambodia. Francois attending on behalf of the @qmul.bsky.social team. This marks the formal start of fieldwork for the study including the first study data collection - pre-training mental health literacy. @qmul-wiph.bsky.social

Dr Bunna Phoeun addressing the trainees and taking them through the consent process as M-BRIGHT training gets underway in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

We are very much looking forward to starting the mental health literacy training next week (14th of July) in Cambodia!

Francois with some of the mental health literacy trainees in Hanoi, Vietnam, today.

And with an overview of the previous AMPS study, and a description of M-BRIGHT, Prof Minh gets the training in Hanoi underway.

Getting ready for the training that starts in Hanoi tomorrow!